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                                          SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 8007

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State of Washington                               51st Legislature                              1989 Regular Session

By Senators Bauer, Sellar, Patterson, Warnke, Vognild and Sutherland

Read first time 1/24/89 and referred to Committee on   Governmental Operations.

TO THE HONORABLE GEORGE BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES, IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, AND TO SENATOR TERRY SANFORD:

          We, your Memorialists, the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Washington, in legislative session assembled, respectfully represent and petition as follows:

          WHEREAS, Individuals born between 1917 and 1921 have been unfairly discriminated against concerning Social Security benefits since 1977; and

          WHEREAS, Those "Notch Babies" as they are called, sometimes receive as much as one thousand five hundred dollars less each year in Social Security benefits for no other reason than they were born at the wrong time; and

          WHEREAS, The gap in benefits paid to those born before 1917 and those born in 1917 is significant and has increased dramatically since 1977;

          NOW, THEREFORE, Your Memorialists respectfully pray that the Congress of the United States enact the Social Security Notch Adjustment Act by Senator Terry Sanford or such similar legislation as may rectify this inequitable situation.

          BE IT RESOLVED, That copies of this Memorial be immediately transmitted to the Honorable George Bush, President of the United States, Senator Terry Sanford, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and each member of Congress from the State of Washington.