The National Education Association is lobbying for WEP/GPO repeal in Washington! We can back them up! Today, May 24 and tomorrow, May 25, they will be visiting Congressional offices explaining the importance of repealing the WEP and GPO. Please call your Congress Person and your Senators on these days. Give them your personal story and the reasons that the…
Rodney Davis and Abigail Spanberger, original sponsor’s of HOUSE WEP/GPO REPEAL BILL, H.R. 82, ARE ASKING HOUSE LEADERSHIP TO BRING THE BILL TO THE FLOOR FOR A VOTE NOW! We need to back up our sponsors, Davis and Spanberger, by bombarding the House decision-makers’ offices with demands for action. You can call any Member of…
SSFairness.org believes that the only just way to deal with the Offsets is total repeal. Denying fully-earned benefits to people who have contributed to Social Security as required is grossly unfair. Other bills before Congress propose to make the Offsets work by balancing them against pensions that are paid for and taxed differently in different states, creating…
The Ever Present Misconceptions about WEP/GPO 1. You have a pension, so you don’t need Social Security: –The pension comes from money you were required to contribute out of your salary. Like Social Security, it was not intended to cover all of your needs in retirement. Even a partial pension can cause cuts to Social…
The petition to repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset (the one we asked for signatures on a year ago) is still open at nearly 80,000 signatures. We want to be able to show legislators our power next month when a new bill including repeal is introduced. We are still accepting signatures!…
We now have 193 co-signers on the Social Security Fairness bill, H.R. 82 (the repeal bill). We need 97 more Members of the House of Representatives to co-sign the bill to force a floor vote on the measure. 290 is the magic number! Last year we got 264 votes of the 290 that we needed….
The Ways and Means Committee is asking for input on Social Security NOW Send to: WMdem.submission@mail.house.gov The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security is putting together a bill to improve Social Security benefits. There is a bill proposed to modify the WEP (HR.2337) and another to REPEAL both penalties (H.R. 82). …
Both penalties affect low income retirees more harshly than those with larger pensions and/or higher Social Security benefits.
Brown and Collins Reintroduce Bipartisan Social Security Fairness bill in the Senate! On Thursday, April 22, U.S. Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Susan Collins (R-ME) led a bipartisan group of their Senate colleagues to re-introduce the Social Security Fairness Act, which would repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). Here…
ASK THEM TO BE AN ORIGINAL CO-SIGNER ON THE SOCIAL SECURITY FAIRNESS BILL THAT SHERROD BROWN IS GOING TO INTRODUCE SOON. SHERROD BROWN, D-OHIO, HAS BEEN OUR CHAMPION INTRODUCING THE SENATE BILL TO REPEAL THE OFFSETS FOR THE LAST FEW SESSIONS OF CONGRESS. LET’S SHOW HIM OUR APPRECIATION! CALL Democrats AND Republicans. The House repeal…
The Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision are poorly written laws that have been levied against public workers for nearly forty years. They are particularly harsh against women. The formula for the Windfall Elimination Provision does not produce the effect that it was designed to do. It has a harsher effect on retirees who have had lower-paying…
Congress is looking at ways to make life better for everyone who has been affected by the pandemic. They are under pressure to fix the Federal support system, AND THERE IS MORE PRESSURE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY! Well over half the Members of the House of Representatives signed on to support last year’s…
We have a new repeal bill. Representative Rodney Davis from Illinois came through for us again! He introduced the Social Security Fairness Act on the very first day of the new session of Congress. It is H.R. 82. As many of you know, every two years all the bills that haven’t been passed and signed…
As of this week, we have 259 Members of Congress standing up for Repeal of the GPO and WEP. Only 31 more and the bill will have to be brought to the floor for a vote. Their staff members are NOT supposed to be working on the election while on the job. They are probably at home during…
Dear SSF Members, This week we are joining forces with the Alliance for Retired Americans. Here is a flyer with a free call-in number to easily speak to your Representative in Congress. You can start using it August 5th, this week. We only need 51 more signatures to present a strong enough showing to get the…
