Word: pensionable
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...From now until 1950 only 16? out of every dollar collected will be paid out as benefits. The workers asked for a pension and all they have received is just another...
...unemployment insurance plan of the Act, he declared, should be left to the states. For the Federal Government's share in the Social Security program he suggested enlargement of the present old-age pension system to "provide for every American citizen over 65 the supplementary payment necessary to give him a minimum income sufficient to protect him or her from want...
...that its purpose is bad. It is that this Act will involve a cruel disappointment for those of our people least able to bear the shock of disappointment. . . . I will not promise the moon. I promise only what I know can be performed : Economy, a living pension, and such security as can be provided by a generous people...
...greatest Treasury-raiding machine the nation had yet seen. Solidly allied with the dominant Republican Party, it was well started on its course of welding power in a crusading hatred of the Rebels, "waving the bloody shirt" from every political stump as it packed Congress with its members, dictated pension legislation almost at will. It had already helped put fellow-members Grant, Hayes and Garfield into the White House, was still to put General Harrison and Major McKinley there...
...Noah Farnham Post in New York lost its charter for criticizing the organization's pension policies...