11.   Shortly thereafter, an executive vice president wrote respondents a series of letters informing them that their post-retirement health benefits were being terminated.

12.   So Congress passed a law making it more difficult for Social Security to terminate benefits, and imposed a two-year moratorium on medical reviews.

13.   Some needy women may have been discouraged from applying for benefits, or been denied benefits, or had their benefits terminated.

14.   States would receive block grants and set many of their own rules, such as terminating benefits sooner than five years.

15.   That support begins to evaporate when people are told the plan might raise costs or cause employers to terminate insurance benefits, the study showed.

16.   The governors oppose a part of a welfare bill proposed by House Republicans that would terminate benefits for legal immigrants.

17.   Therefore, state officials say, in close cases, they have a financial incentive to reject food stamp applications or to terminate benefits for people already receiving aid.

18.   We not only terminate benefits, we disappear the recipient.

19.   Where sanctions used to be incremental deductions of benefits, many states now terminate benefits for a single infraction.

20.   A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge approved the creation of a committee of retirees to look into whether Polaroid Corp. acted properly by terminating benefits.