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Stimulus package pays $250 to seniors and the disabled

Sixty-eight-year-old Elizabeth Thiesen of Freeport has been scouring news accounts on the federal stimulus package, tracking the fate of a small payment tucked away in it for seniors and the disabled - first proposed at $450, then revised downward to $300 and finally $250 as the measure wound its way through Congress.

"I get SSI [Supplemental Security Insurance], so it's a lot of money," Thiesen...

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