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From: (Dolores DOBSON)
Subject: [GAECHOLS] Take Action or Bad News for Genealogy- IMPORTANT
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 21:46:52 -0400 (EDT)

Please take the time today to write a letter to your Senators, your
Representative, the President, the Vice-President and the Secretary of
Human and Health Services. Addresses at the bottom of this e-mail....
This is so important to all genealogists! The rate increase will be
effective July 1st, so we don't have much time! Please write today, it
will only take a few minutes to compose a letter and send it off........
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                          I
have just discovered that the SSA is raising the price by 286% for the
most valuable tool that genealogists request, the SS-5 form, Original
Application for SS Number...
                        It
is going up from its present $7 to $27, effective 1 July
2001.                   Reference:
<http://www.ssa.gov/foia/foia_guide.htm#_Toc517745431>; This is
untenable, since many people who do genealogy are older retired folks on
fixed income... and this large increase appears to be intended to
discourage the public from access to documents under the Freedom of
Information Act.
                  How can it cost
$27 to receive a request, then make and mail a copy of the one page
document???   ...Government is not intended to be making a profit...
The $7 seems high, when you actually evaluate the task...and Researching
costs more...Could it be that they have some awfully high paid
clerks...and/or interns...???
                  Since anything can
be proven by statistics, I don't believe their "analysis" but you might
want to make your representatives in Congress aware of this...
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Senate Addresses   <http://www.senate.gov/>;
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House Addresses   <http://www.house.gov/>;
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President George W. Bush: <>
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President Dick Cheney: <>
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  Assistant-Secretary for HHS: <>
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Notify ALL your Genealogical buddies, too??? We ALL need to write...
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