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...Visit one of the eleven regional branches of the National Archives (or its parent temple in Washington). This federal service has invaluable census records dating back to 1790, military and pension records from American wars beginning with the Revolutionary, passenger lists of immigrant ships, passport applications, naturalization records, land and bounty claims and much more. The Library of Congress (no branches) has a rich lode of 30,000 American and foreign genealogies. The D.A.R.'s Washington headquarters also has extensive records...
Most seriously affected are partly disabled people who collect pension payments from a former employer while holding down a part-time or less demanding job. A typical example is a policeman with a heart ailment who leaves the force and takes on lighter duties as a department store guard. Last year he could deduct $5,200 of his police pension income. This year he cannot deduct any of it, since he is not totally disabled, and he now owes a big tax bill. One Colorado couple's tax liability jumped from...
...relations board and thus have to surrender 50,000 workers to Chavez involuntarily. But the real reason for the Teamsters' cave-in seems to be public relations: the scandal-scarred Teamsters are under heavy attack. An investigation of the union's Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Fund, often accused of funneling money to the Mafia, is still under way at the U.S. Department of Labor. This week, Federal officials will announce a plan forcing all Teamster members off the fund's board of trustees. In this climate. Teamsters leaders may well have thought that...
...front of a gathering of young radicals and read a platform that most probably took as either a joke or a sign that the old guy had finally given in to the establishment. When he had finished reading the mild platform (affirming a commitment to a mandatory national pension plan and a government effort to reach full employment, among other things), he stopped, paused, and explained what he had just read. It was the Socialist Party's platform from his first campaign, back during the Depression. The reason the platform had sounded so anti-revolutionary was that in the three...
Bramlet desperately started trying to convert his assets into cash. Perhaps he intended to pay off the mobsters, or maybe just flee, since a contract had reportedly been put out on him. In either case, he will not be drawing his own pension from the fund...