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Jun. 4th, 2015 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snarpSocial Security disability payments restored for hundreds in Eastern Kentucky facing eligibility review.
Thank Christ. This should never have happened.
I will point out that though Rogers is getting the credit in this article, and he definitely did a great thing by pitching in, John Rosenberg, a civil rights and legal aid activist, and Ned Pillersdorf, the attorney in the class action suit against Conn, were probably the ones who forced the change in course to happen so quickly - Conn's victims have only missed one check so far, the one they should have gotten this week. This was something that needed immediate action - there have already been three suicides - and they acted very fast.
Rosenberg in particular found out and started raising a ruckus before the letters rescinding everyone's benefits even made it to them. I can't guess how many hours this eighty-something-year-old dude spent on the phone with people at newspapers and the state and federal governments, but given what his Facebook's been looking like, I would say the answer was "a lot of them."
(Screening comments on this post, for reasons.)
Thank Christ. This should never have happened.
I will point out that though Rogers is getting the credit in this article, and he definitely did a great thing by pitching in, John Rosenberg, a civil rights and legal aid activist, and Ned Pillersdorf, the attorney in the class action suit against Conn, were probably the ones who forced the change in course to happen so quickly - Conn's victims have only missed one check so far, the one they should have gotten this week. This was something that needed immediate action - there have already been three suicides - and they acted very fast.
Rosenberg in particular found out and started raising a ruckus before the letters rescinding everyone's benefits even made it to them. I can't guess how many hours this eighty-something-year-old dude spent on the phone with people at newspapers and the state and federal governments, but given what his Facebook's been looking like, I would say the answer was "a lot of them."
(Screening comments on this post, for reasons.)
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Date: 2015-06-05 02:31 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2015-06-05 04:09 pm (UTC)The senior citizens' center down the road lets people do yard sales in their parking lot, and the day everyone would ordinarily have gotten their checks, there were so many terrified-looking people trying to sell blankets and winter clothes and stuff that there was no room to actually park.
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Date: 2015-06-05 01:33 pm (UTC)I was worried.
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Date: 2015-06-06 02:02 am (UTC)