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Indigenous Group Tells Court: We Die Younger So Let Us Retire Early

Por: The Daily Beast World February 20, 2023

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Racial groups with an “historical disadvantage” deserve retirement benefits earlier, a federal court in heard on Monday. The court was of a 65-year-old Indigenous Wakka-Wakka man, known in court documents as Uncle Dennis, who has argued that he should get state retirement benefits three years earlier because his life expectancy is shorter than non-Indigenous people. The man filed a petition to receive his pension earlier, which was denied,... + full article



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