{"id":2942,"date":"2017-08-16T19:19:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T02:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssfairness.org\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2017-08-16T19:19:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T02:19:44","slug":"action-alert-96-relentless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssfairness.org\/action-alert-96-relentless\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Alert #96 – Be Relentless!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Be Relentless: Tell them like it is! Despite the large number of political concerns these days, we must continue our persistence!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The D.C. offices are still open during August!<\/strong> Go to house.gov<\/a> or senate.gov<\/a> to find phone numbers for legislative staff.<\/p>\n

Members have suggested some short and punchy phrases<\/strong> that will stand out as we keep up our squeaky wheel approach to Congress. Do any of these hit home for you? Try them or develop your own and share them with us:<\/p>\n

\u2022 I paid<\/strong> for all these benefits\u2014I deserve them!<\/p>\n

\u2022 My husband paid<\/strong> for benefits for me\u2014I deserve them!<\/p>\n

\u2022 This country relies on teachers, the police and firefighters. Why does Social Security shaft us?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 We have a big teacher shortage, but why would someone from another field jeopardize their retirement<\/strong> by becoming a teacher?<\/p>\n

\u2022 No one told us<\/strong> that our Social Security would be cut to practically nothing! \u2022 Congress didn\u2019t require employers to tell new employees that they would lose their Social Security until 2005, after I retired!<\/p>\n

\u2022 As a low-paid school bus driver (secretary, clerk, postal worker) the WEP really hurts me. \u00a0I lose a bigger chunk<\/strong> of my Social Security benefits than higher earners!<\/p>\n

\u2022 I worked two jobs<\/strong> to make sure my family was covered. Now my Social Security benefits are cut almost in half!<\/p>\n

\u2022 My husband paid<\/strong> into Social Security for 35 years before he died, but I get nothing??!! \u2022 Other widows get their husband\u2019s Social Security benefits, I deserve my husband\u2019s, also!<\/p>\n

\u2022 My divorce settlement<\/strong> said I should get Social Security benefits from my marriage. I don\u2019t get anything!<\/p>\n

\u2022 My husband died and, since I lose ALL his Social Security, I am losing my house!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2022 My half a teacher pension means I lose $12,000 every year<\/strong> in spousal benefits, earned while I was a stay-at-home mom!<\/p>\n

\u2022 The GPO takes away ALL<\/strong> of my spousal Social Security. Then the WEP cuts my own benefits! I can\u2019t win!<\/p>\n

The \u201csqueaky wheel\u201d approach<\/strong>: every month send an email<\/strong> or make a call to your members of Congress and say these things. Over and over! As of this week: 148 co-signers in the House\u201437 of them Republicans!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Be Relentless: Tell them like it is! Despite the large number of political concerns these days, we must continue our persistence! The D.C. offices are still open during August! Go to house.gov or senate.gov to find phone numbers for legislative staff. Members have suggested some short and punchy phrases that will stand out as we…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"Action Alerts"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"SS Fairness","author_link":"https:\/\/ssfairness.org\/author\/ssfairness\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"Action Alerts","slug":"action-alerts","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":126,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":126,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Action Alerts","category_nicename":"action-alerts","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssfairness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssfairness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssfairness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssfairness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssfairness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ssfairness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssfairness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssfairness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssfairness.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}