61.   Morin, whose company also participates in a similar but smaller state project in New York, said he would like to pay benefits but cannot afford to.

62.   Most every insurer offered such policies with a level premium that paid lifetime benefits to someone who could not continue in his occupation.

63.   Most companies now waive their previous barrier to paying benefits in cancellation for illness if the condition was pre-existing.

64.   Most of it pays current benefits.

65.   Most traditional pension funds promise to pay specified benefits, regardless of fluctuations in their investment portfolios.

66.   Most of the surplus is generated by Social Security, which receives much more revenue than it needs to pay benefits.

67.   No one yet understands what the repercussions would be on the plans, and if it would affect their ability to pay benefits to retirees, she added.

68.   One of her lawyers, William F. Dowling, has filed a motion on her behalf, seeking to force the company to pay the benefits.

69.   Opponents of stock accounts say that Social Security is not an investment but an insurance plan that also pays benefits for death and disability.

70.   One key issue for the county is whether the state will continue to pay benefits to legal immigrants who become ineligible for federal funding.