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John E. BEESMER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Margaret HECKLER, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Defendant-Appellee.
    No. 29, Docket 84-6097.
    United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
    Argued Sept. 6, 1984.
    Decided Sept. 11, 1984.
    John S. Hogg, Hamilton, N.Y., for plaintiff-appellant.
    Edward R. Broton, Asst. U.S. Atty., N.D. N.Y., Syracuse, N.Y., (Frederick J. Scullin, Jr., U.S. Atty., Syracuse, N.Y., of counsel), for defendant-appellee.
    Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, and LUMBARD and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges.
   PER CURIAM:

This case presents just one issue: whether benefits paid plaintiff-appellant John E. Beesmer under New York State’s Volunteer Firemen’s Benefit Law are benefits “under a workmen's compensation law or plan of ... a State” within the meaning of the applicable offset provision of the Social Security Act in effect in 1975 when Beesmer became disabled, Pub.L. No. 89-97, § 335, 79 Stat. 286, 406 (1965) (amended 1981). The district court answered this question in the affirmative. The judgment of the district court is affirmed substantially for the reasons stated in the Report-Recommendation of Magistrate Ralph W. Smith, Jr., dated December 12, 1984, and the Order of Judge Neal P. McCurn, dated February 9, 1984.