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WASHINGTON — When the next generations of $5, $10, $20 and $50 bills roll off the presses, there should be some way for blind people to tell them apart, a federal judge said Thursday. And U.S. District Judge James Robertson said he would not allow the Treasury Department to go at its own pace.
Treasury officials have hired a contractor to investigate ways to help the blind differentiate between bills, perhaps by printing different sizes or including raised numbers.
“The Treasury Department is not going to just conduct this on its own schedule and its own terms. Let that be clear,” he said. The next $100 design could be printed as early as this fall, and Robertson said those bills won’t be affected.
