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In this Monday, Dec. 19, 2016, photo, Donna Dye, who is unemployed and whose husband is disabled, plays with her two granddaughters, Lilly, left, and Chloe, at her home where she cares for them, in Minnie, Ky. Dye and her husband have been fighting the federal government to keep his Social Security disability checks after a local lawyer who helped them became the subject of a federal fraud investigation. (AP Photo/David Stephenson) (AP)

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