Senate Vote for Repeal on H.R. 82 as Early as Monday Evening! Contact Your Senators! This is it!
If your Senators are already co-signers, remind them. Flood their offices! Send them an email, call their offices, respond on their website:
Co-signers: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/597/cosponsors
Tell them thank you and that we are counting on their vote for repealing the outdated, unfair WEP and GPO!
Here is a link to Senators’ offices: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/597/cosponsors
If one or both of your Senators have not signed on, here are some tools to change their minds:
1. Give them your short story: which public service, how many years worked, years married, amount you have lost. Why what happened to you is wrong. HOW MUCH ARE YOU LOSING?
2. The situation–Your WHOLE state is losing out because of the Offsets! Retirees in every state are losing their full share of Social Security funding each month because of the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset. Millions of dollars every year stay in Washington instead of building up your local economies where most Social Security benefits are spent.
Approximate amounts lost every year by a sampling of states because of the WEP/GPO:
| Florida: $ 981,759,764 | Missouri: $ 460,417,836 | Texas: $ 2,585,013,284 |
| N. Carolina: $ 280,715,336 | Ohio: $ 2,347,132,136 | Kentucky: $ 320,117,516 |
- The average future yearly WEP loss per retiree: $4,928/yr. (limited to $587/month)
- The average future yearly GPO loss per retiree: $14,698 (there is no limit on the amount you can lose because of the GPO!)
Number of affected retirees in your state:
- CRS Report WEP: https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/98-35.pdf p.5-6
- CRS Report GPO: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RL/RL32453 p.8-9
3. Here is a list of the phone numbers of legislators who haven’t signed on. Call as many of them as you can now and leave a message:
| SENATOR NAME / PARTY / STATE | STATE | D.C. PHONE NUMBER |
|---|---|---|
| Barrasso, John [R-WY] | Wyoming | (202) 224-6441 |
| Britt, Katie Boyd [R-AL] | Alabama | (202) 224-5744 |
| Budd, Ted [R-NC] | North Carolina | (202) 224-3154 |
| Capito, Shelley Moore [R-WV] | West Virginia | (202) 224-6472 |
| Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE] | Delaware | (202) 224-2441 |
| Cornyn, John [R-TX] | Texas | (202) 224-2934 |
| Cotton, Tom [R-AR] | Arkansas | (202) 224-2353 |
| Cramer, Kevin [R-ND] | North Dakota | (202) 224-2043 |
| Crapo, Mike [R-ID] | Idaho | (202) 224-6142 |
| Cruz, Ted [R-TX] | Texas | (202) 224-5922 |
| Daines, Steve [R-MT] | Montana | (202) 224-2651 |
| Ernst, Joni [R-IA] | Iowa | (202) 224-3254 |
| Graham, Lindsey [R-SC] | South Carolina | (202) 224-5972 |
| Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] | Iowa | (202) 224-3744 |
| Hagerty, Bill [R-TN] | Tennessee | (202) 224-4944 |
| Hawley, Josh [R-MO] | Missouri | (202) 224-6154 |
| Hoeven, John [R-ND] | North Dakota | (202) 224-2551 |
| Hyde-Smith, Cindy [R-MS] | Mississippi | (202) 224-5054 |
| Johnson, Ron [R-WI] | Wisconsin | (202) 224-5323 |
| Lankford, James [R-OK] | Oklahoma | (202) 224-5754 |
| Lee, Mike [R-UT] | Utah | (202) 224-5444 |
| Lummis, Cynthia M. [R-WY] | Wyoming | (202) 224-3424 |
| Manchin, Joe, III [I-WV] | West Virginia | (202) 224-3954 |
| Marshall, Roger [R-KS] | Kansas | (202) 224-4774 |
| McConnell, Mitch [R-KY] | Kentucky | (202) 224-2541 |
| Paul, Rand [R-KY] | Kentucky | (202) 224-4343 |
| Risch, James E. [R-ID] | Idaho | (202) 224-2752 |
| Romney, Mitt [R-UT] | Utah | (202) 224-5251 |
| Rounds, Mike [R-SD] | South Dakota | (202) 224-5842 |
| Rubio, Marco [R-FL] | Florida | (202) 224-3041 |
| Schmitt, Eric [R-MO] | Missouri | (202) 224-5721 |
| Scott, Tim [R-SC] | South Carolina | (202) 224-6121 |
| Sullivan, Dan [R-AK] | Alaska | (202) 224-3004 |
| Thune, John [R-SD] | South Dakota | (202) 224-2321 |
| Tillis, Thomas [R-NC] | North Carolina | (202) 224-6342 |
| Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL] | Alabama | (202) 224-4124 |
| Wicker, Roger F. [R-MS] | Mississippi | (202) 224-6253 |
| Young, Todd [R-IN] | Indiana | (202) 224-5623 |