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Please consider joining with ProtectSeniors.Org in supporting a bill in the US Congress (HR1322) as a two pronged effort to restore your stolen benefits.

We have had a number of competent attorney's suggest against a long and not neccesary winnable law suit over this obvious legal infraction. Why? Because the lawsuit by GM employees in 1988, which was similar to yours, took 6+ years and $800,000 to find out the Supreme court would not over turn an appellate courts ruling. Basically that ruling said that GM was proper in taking away healthcare from their retirees. And How could they say that? They pulled GM benefits Practice out of the archives which said: We reserve the right to change, ammend, or terminate this plan at any time in the future. IF your benefits plan says that you may have no case, especially since the court has gotten more conservative with last two Bush appointtees.

If your plan doesn't contain the above wording now called, "the reservation of rights clause" go for it. That happened in US West and they won. Curtis Kennedy was their lawyer - he has since won 20 more lawsuits against US West.

If that sentence was in your benefits practice at the time of retirement, then your best option is to join with us to change the law---In Congress.

Jim Casey

ProtectSeniors.Org