Effingham County Board of Education v. United States

*178ORDER

REGINALD W. GIBSON, Judge.

On May 2, 1984, plaintiffs brought this suit to challenge, inter alia, the constitutionality of a 1983 amendment to the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 418 (1982). The challenged amendment, § 218 of the Social Security Act, voided plaintiffs’ 1981 attempt to withdraw as beneficiaries under the Social Security Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance benefits program (the “program”). Plaintiffs had joined the program in 1974 pursuant to an agreement between the State of Georgia and the United States. In that agreement, as well as under the Social Security Act…