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Second Circuit: No Social Security Payments for Prisoners
Loaded on Sept. 15, 2013
published in Prison Legal News
September, 2013, page 54
Last year, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held that the “No Social Security Benefits for Prisoners Act (the Act), Pub. L. No. 111-115, 123 Stat. 3029 (2009), bars the Social Security Administration (SSA) from making any payments to incarcerated individuals covered by the Act, “regardless of when the underlying ...
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