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  • Income Test For Benefits Challenged

    01/13/2003 2:50:06 PM PST · by LurkedLongEnough · 2 replies · 252+ views
    The Hartford Courant ^ | January 13, 2003 | KIM MARTINEAU, Courant staff writer
    <p>Muhammad Munshi, a subsistence farmer from Pakistan, came to America last year.</p> <p>But since his massive stroke just two days after moving here with his wife last March, Munshi, 69, sees only what's visible from a hospital bed in his son's dining room. He can't talk. He can't eat or breathe without help.</p> <p>He could live for years like this except for one problem. It costs $1,000 a month to keep him alive and already the money is gone.</p>