Linquist v. Bowen

LAY, Chief Judge.

In Linguist v. Bowen, 813 F.2d 884 (8th Cir.1987), this court upheld the district court’s decision in a nationwide class action concerning the provisions under the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 301-1397f (1982) and the Railroad Retirement Act, 45 U.S.C. §§ 231-231v (1982) that each required an offset against an individual’s benefits of fifty cents for each dollar the individual earned in excess of the exempt amount. The plaintiff class asserted that retired persons covered by both Acts should have their benefits reduced by only a single fifty-percent offset even though…