Social Security Fairness is working in close coalition with several other retiree organizations (see our homepage at ssfairness.org) to keep the pressure on Congress for full repeal of both offsets. This week and next we will all be sending the same message: “include full of WEP and GPO repeal in your end-of-session bills!“ We need…
Important Discharge action this week: (Also watch the video below which further explains our situation) Here is where we are now: The Social Security Fairness Act, H.R. 82, has 305 co-signers, far more than it needs to pass, but the Chair of Ways and Means called it up for a hearing one day before it…
There are opponents to Fairness in high places! In August, H.R. 82 reached the magic number of 290 co-sponsors required to demand a floor vote, but still had to wait 25 legislative days before that could be done. On Sept.16, the 24th legislative day, the Chairperson of the House Ways and Means Committee brought the…
Last week the House Ways and Means Committee stopped our path to a floor vote on full repeal of the WEP and GPO! Here is what we need to do next! Your Representative must sign a Discharge Petition to keep our chances for repeal going. A super majority has cosponsored H.R.82, but since it got…
WEP/GPO Hearing for H.R. 82 in Ways and Means H.R. 82, the bill to repeal the WEP and GPO has enough co-sponsors to require a floor vote. Instead, the leadership of the Ways and Means Committee has decided to discuss the bill at a meeting this Tuesday at 10:00 AM EDT. At this meeting they…
IT’S NOT TIME TO QUIT, YET: Great News! We hit 100,000 signers on the MoveOn petition, and more people are still signing it. Here, again, is the link. https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/elimination-of-the-unfair ( Please keep it going if you can. Thank you! Social Security Fairness has been working with the National WEP/GPO Repeal Task Force for the past…
Show our power to Congress now! We want 100K signers on our petition for next week, and this weekend we have more than 96,470. Please help us get those final 3,500 supporters! Who is it that you haven’t yet hit up for their signature? Family? Neighbors? Distant cousins? Did they forget to sign? Carry your…
We’re Ready for a House vote; Time to Lean on Senators; Building State Coalitions 1. We now have 294 Members of the House of Representatives who have co-signed H.R. 82, to fully repeal the WEP and GPO–more than what we need! Sponsors, Davis and Spanberger, have formally requested a House VOTE on their bill. …
Copy the message below, click on the legislative aide’s email on the bottom of this Alert, use the message that appears, paste our request, or add your own comment and SEND! Please cosign H.R. 82 NOW! Provide real support for seniors! Public worker retirees need you to repeal the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall…
Copy the message below, click on the legislative aide’s email on the bottom of this Alert, paste our request, and send. Please cosign H.R. 82 NOW! Public worker retirees need you to repeal the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision! H.R. 82 by Rodney Davis has 283 cosigners. We need 290 to force…
You Can Put Us Over The Top! We have 280 co-signers. We want to get 290 co-signers to be able to demand a floor vote. This email is going out to our more than 5,000 members of Social Security Fairness. California Retired Teachers sent the links below to their members, and we can add to…
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…
