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SUPREME COURT DECISION IN FLEMMING V. NESTOR

Full text of 1960 Supreme Court decision which settled the issue of whether payment of Social Security taxes established a contractual right to a Social Security benefit.
TAXATION OF SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS

A summary of the history of this issue and copies of the three early Treasury Department rulings that initially established Social Security benefits as non-taxable.
 
 
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