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At 11:59 PM 1/28/00 -0500, you wrote: >Dear friends, > >Gerry and Brig, in Pennsylvania, have told me that they, too are facing >foreclosure. >Anne Rutherford has told me that in Canada there have been MANY cases of >financial >devastation for PWPs-that my case is NOT unique. > >How many more cases will it take before something is organized? >We PWP's MUST band together. > >In my case, I am getting over all-day exhaustion in this world of ice >and snow. > > Contrary to what I had been told, and to the information I had >written to PIEN in December (1999), I have been tricked. > > Behind the City of Portland's supposedly magnanimous >decision to provide me, through City Welfare, with a $1454.27 property >tax >reduction this past December , 1999, to prevent foreclosue, I received a >copy of an >absolutely shocking 1099-MISC form (USA Internal Revenue Service) >in the mail yesterday. > >That "welfare" amount has been reported by the City authorities >to the Federal Government's Dept. of the Treasury as "INCOME" that it >paid >me in cash! I was never paid a cent- the $1454.27 is just amounts >billed or deducted. >ON PAPER only, by the City of Portland. > >This "welfare" amount is DOUBLE my monthly Social Security of $703.00, >and threatens my keeping my Social Security and Medicaid-which pays for >the personal care attendants, >because hte Maximum i can receive in a month is $859.00. > >I intend to call Senator Snowe. >Please call her in my support at (207) 874-0883 > >This is all the more heinous because the Maine state government >reimburses >90% of City Welfare back to the City of Portland. > >The only thing I can conclude is that the sequence of events that injures >me >financially or in other ways suggests discrimination of the worst kind. > > I am still without a lawyer. Is that St. Croix Virgin Islands lawyer who >is a PWP and on PIEN interested in helping me find one? > >IVAN >On Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:19:52 -0500 Greg Sterling <[log in to unmask]> >writes: >>All, >>Contrary to popular belief I have not gone anywhere. I can't stand >>quiet any longer. >>What is going on in the case of Hilary? How dreadful to be in a >>situation like that. Isn't >>there anything we can do? Somebody has to have an idea or two. How >>many of you >>PWP's have taken neuro-psych tests? I have. Maybe in cases such as >>this and Ivan's >>some of that research money should be diverted for the ones who are >>suffering today as a >>direct result of PD and no fault of their own. Thee future can wait. >> >>Greg >>47/35/35 > >^^^^^^ WARM GREETINGS FROM ^^^^^^^^^^^^ :-) > Ivan Suzman 50/39/36 [log in to unmask] :-) > Portland, Maine land of lighthouses deg. F :-) >******************************************************************** > > Ivan: I can't imagine you haven't thought of anything I have, but is the ACLU a thought? You certainly are being deproved of you civil liberties when your home is threatened..Regards, Thea and Gordon Seese