Many middle class people receive some sort of government entitlement benefit, yet Republicans in Congress are only targeting welfare recipients for cutbacks. These entitlements, such as veterans benefits, Social Security and Medicare, go to people who do not need the money and bloat the budget.
This document contains proposed regulations implementing amendments to the Black Lung Benefits Act (BLBA or Act) made by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). The ACA amended the BLBA in two ways. First, it revived a rebuttable presumption of total disability or death due to pneumoconiosis for certain claims. Second, it reinstituted derivative entitlement to benefits for certain eligible survivors of coal miners whose lifetime benefit claims were awarded because they were totally disabled due to pneumoconiosis. These survivors need not also prove that the miner died due to coal workers' pneumoconiosis. The proposed rules would clarify how the statutory presumption may be invoked and rebutted and the application and scope of the derivative-survivor-entitlement provision. ...
Editor's note: The Entitlement Trap, by Deseret News columnists Linda and Richard Eyre, has recently been published. Below is an excerpt, including the foreword by Stephen R. Covey and the introduction. ***
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