Table 3

Dployer arasuitante added to the retirement roll during the fiscal yver ended June 30, 1969

1/ Excludes Survivor annuitants under Public Law 85-465, effective Aug. 1, 1958.

SUMMARY

STATEMENT TO THE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE

UNITED STATES SENATE

BY

THOMAS G. WALTERS, PRESIDENT

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED CIVIL EMPLOYEES

October 2, 1969

The National Association of Retired Civil Employees, of which

Thomas G. Walters is President, is a 48-year old non-profit and incorporated

organization whose 135,000 plus members are retirees of the United States

Government Civil Service.

The Committee is urged to consider, in its deliberations on tax

Exclusion from the gross income of the first $5000 for a family

and the first $3600 for a single person received as Civil Service
annuity from the United States Government or any agency thereof.
Re-establishment of the provision to deduct drug and medical
expenses for persons 65 years and older. (Deleted in 1967).
S. 1564 introduced by former Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen
and now before this committee provides for this restoration for
income tax purposes.

Amendment of Medicare to provide for the payment of prescription
drugs outside-of-hospital.

Amendment of Medicare to provide that provisions (a) and (b)

be made available to all Federal annuitants and their survivors.

33-758 - 69 No. 16 - 19

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