Student
social
security
slashed
(AP) — Nineteen-year-old
Joseph Carey decided last
spring to take a year off from
Williams College to work as a
surveyor in Colorado The ab
sence cost Carey, whose
father died two years ago,
nearly $500 a month in Social
Security student benefits
After his father's funeral,
James Burns withdrew from
high school in Peabody,
Mass , where he was senior
class vice president, and en
rolled in a community college
— only to discover it would do
him no good He will still lose
student aid this summer
because his father died since
September, a month after
Congress changed the law
The cases of Joe Carey and
Jim Burns are unusual, but
they are not alone
Thousands of high school
seniors have scrambled into
college in recent weeks to beat
the May 1 cutoff of new awards
of Social Security student aid
For many, the experience has
been wrenching
A survey by The Associated
Press indicates that many
students, parents and educa
tors are bitter about the Social
Security Administration's
failure to notify all students
about the impending phaseout
of the $2 3 billion program for
students 18 through 21
"It's hard to comprehend
how the government can get
away with something this un
derhanded " complains
Janet Evans, a Baltimore high
school senior who enrolled in
college only three days after
learning of the changes last
month
Last month Theresa White
16. whose father died in 1980,
was a junior at John Dewey
High School in Brooklyn N V
Now she is a freshman at
Wagner College on Staten Is
land
Bill Reed, 17, of Plymouth,
Mich., son of a Marine killed in
Vietnam in 1967, already has
started classes at Oakland He
Graphic by Max DeRungs
was a senior at Plymouth
Canton High School in Can
ton, Mich , a Detroit suburb
Reed's mother, Therese
Gall, says bitterly, "The
government is doing a
marvelous job of reneging on
its promises ”
She still has a 1968 Defense
Department pamphlet that
said the government would
pay a monthly income to un
married children up to age 22 if
they were full-time students
"It's very hard to justify cuts
like these, especially when all
of this was put into effect to
lure men into going off to fight
the war," she says
Even those who beat the
cutoff by attending college
full-time before May 1 will get
less than one-third of what
they would have received
under the old law Congress
voted to deny all students
benefits for May, June, July
and August and to reduce
their checks by 25 percent
each September for the next
three years They will get no
cost-of-living increases and
the checks will cease after
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