In the media these days there is a lot of talk about expanding and improving Social Security, but no one is saying anything about getting rid of the Government Pension Offset (GPO) and the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP). Despite the repeal bills currently in Congress, (H.R.973 and S.1651), there is nothing about how badly these…
Where We Are This spring it will be 7 years that the Committee for Social Security Fairness has been working to rid our public servants of the penalties of the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision. We have a website, ssfairness.org, which is the best source anywhere of accurate and comprehensive information on…
Question: How do we get a bigger voice? Answer: By reaching out to active public servants! Seventy million Americans receive Social Security retirement benefits. But there are only two million retirees who have our earned Social Security benefits either reduced or totally eliminated by the Government Pension Offset and/or the Windfall Elimination Provision. …
Action Alert #74 Please Do This Today! Decision Thursday! Unfair to Offset Victims! More than 450,000 retirees lose ALL their Social Security Spousal and Survivor benefits because of the GPO. Now, they are about to have to pay a higher premium for Medicare, also. $600 more a year! This will also apply to you if…
—Current employees don’t know about the offsets, so they make erroneous plans for retirement. —We need to reach active public workers who don’t know about the offsets and get them involved. This will give us a larger constituency to pressure Congress for repeal in 2017! —Use our new flyer to inform current employees of what…
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) has introduced a new bill, S.1651, that would repeal both the GPO and the WEP. This bill will be a companion to Rodney Davis’ House bill, HR 973. We are delighted to see this! We have been waiting for this bill for months. We want to thank him and the other…
More than 600 members from 46 states have taken the survey! Thank you!! Please add to our impact if you haven’t yet taken it. If you are not sure of numbers, you can skip those questions. Here is the link again: Link to GPO & WEP Survey In the survey you we ask if you…
The House of Representatives and the Senate are starting on the two-year “114th Congress,” and new bills are being proposed. There are calls from all quarters saying that this is the year that something must be done for the solvency of Social Security. Some calls are suggesting cuts to benefits, others are demanding that benefits…
The President says that he wants to know how folks in the country are doing. OK, we can do that! This is a perfect chance to tell him how the GPO and WEP are affecting your life. Click on the link below. Where it asks who you are, click on “American” and tell him you are…
AARP is currently neutral on whether the GPO and WEP should be repealed. We believe that the statements from SSFairness over the past couple of years have encouraged their move to neutral (no position) regarding GPO/WEP from the previous one actually opposing repeal. They listened to the stories of the real effects of the offsets…
Congress is on recess for the next couple of weeks. If you haven’t mentioned the GPO/WEP to your representative or senators in the last two months, it is time for them to hear from you again! To avoid being buried in the pile of comments about Social Security, you might label it a women’s issue,…
As the midterm election season warms up, many of us are being hit by requests for donations to political campaigns. Some of our members sent in the suggestion that we demand that they respond to our issue before we send them any more money. Here are sample responses: (1) “I will contribute financially when I…
Important, Strategic Action Needed You can help now! Social Security support groups are beginning to align their messages toward making the Social Security system stronger and fairer. Right now is a perfect time to tell these groups that in order to make the system fair to all, the Government Pension Offset (GPO)…
Social Security Works sent out a reminder that we have to continue the fight against the Chained CPI: “Last year, President Obama put a Social Security cut called the Chained CPI in his budget. Since then Americans from all political stripes are calling for Social Security to be expanded—not cut. The question is: will President…
There is so much going on in Washington (or not) these days, that it seems like it isn’t the greatest time to mention the GPO/WEP to our legislators. Our goal during times like these is to continue educating people about how wrong it was to pass a bill that has cut or eliminated our earned…
