H.R.1795 - Repeal the Government Pension Offset (GPO) provision
Public Comments (10,192)
-
Sep 15th, 2009Someone from Orange, CA signed.
Sep 12th, 2009Someone from Corona, CA signed.
Sep 11th, 2009Someone from Garden Grove, CA writes:
It is not fair to punish me, a hard-working teacher and single head of household mother, because teaching does not pay enough to raise a child and take care of an elderly parent. I do not choose to work two jobs; it is a neccessity.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelSep 9th, 2009Someone from Sterling Heights, MI signed.
Sep 8th, 2009Someone from Torrance, CA signed.
Sep 8th, 2009Someone from Torrance, CA writes:
If I pay into Social Security, I should, or my spouse should, receive the benefits. It should not go to those who have not paid into the system.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelSep 8th, 2009Someone from Lakewood, CA writes:
Call me simple, but it seems very easy: If I have paid into Social Security for 35 years, I should receive Social Security benefits. If I don't pay into Social Security, I should not receive the benefits.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelSep 6th, 2009Someone from Seal Beach, CA writes:
Get off your ass and do it now!! It is not YOUR moneny it is ours. We paid it in and we want what is OURS. I am tired of MY money going to some lazy ass.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelSep 6th, 2009Someone from Wildomar, CA writes:
Please repeal the Government Offset Provision and the Windfall Elimination Provision. The WEP is ridiculous because a windfall is something totally unexpected, like winning the lottery. I earned and paid SS for 10 years prior to becoming a firefighter which I retired from after 27 years. I EARNED both pensions. They should rename these provision the YOU EARNED IT BUT WE DON'T FEEL LIKE PAYING YOU P. PleaREPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelSep 6th, 2009Someone from Redondo Beach, CA writes:
Please repeal the unfair provisions called the Government Pension Offset(GPO) and the Windfall Elimination Provision(WEP). These are unfair to working spouses of civil servants, and the government employees who have dedicated years of their lives to serving the public.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelSep 6th, 2009Someone from Redondo Beach, CA writes:
Please repeal the unfair provisions called the Government Pension Offset(GPO) and the Windfall Elimination Provision(WEP. These are unfair to working spouses of civil servants, and the government employees who have dedicated years of their lives to serving the public.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelSep 6th, 2009Someone from Redondo Beach, CA signed.
Sep 6th, 2009Someone from Fort Myers, FL signed.
Sep 6th, 2009Someone from Thousand Oaks, CA signed.
Sep 5th, 2009Someone from Atascadero, CA signed.
Sep 4th, 2009Someone from Hollywood, FL writes:
The ltr from the firefighter is disturbing. He SHOULD get both of HIS benefits. I wonder what the teacher is TX is getting each month from her work. Sorry, the woman who stayed home for 31 years to raise her chidren was lucky. Now, perhaps people can understand how gays get the boots from pension funds.That isn't fair either. I get zinged every month on MY OWN work record too. Also, illegal aliens are not by law permitted to get SSI. SSI is the bane of the give away system. A lot of people got paid under the table, paid no taxes. At 65 or whatever, they get SSI, Medicaid and are home free. Poor dopes likes us haul the freight for them.........REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelSep 4th, 2009Someone from Hollywood, FL writes:
The ltr from the firefighter is disturbing. He SHOULD get both of HIS benefits. I wonder what the teacher is TX is getting each month from her work. Sorry, the woman who stayed home for 31 years to raise her chidren was lucky. Now, perhaps people can understand how gays get the boots from pension funds.That isn't fair either. I get zinged every month on MY OWN work record too. Also, illegal aliens are not by law permitted to get SSI. SSI is the bane of the give away system. A lot of people got paid under the table, paid no taxes. At 65 or whatever, they get SSI, Medicaid and are home free. Poor dopes likes us haul the freight for them.........REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelSep 4th, 2009Someone from Hollywood, FL signed.
Sep 3rd, 2009Someone from Rancho Mirage, CA signed.
Aug 28th, 2009Someone from Tacoma, WA writes:
This is simply an unfair law, if a person has enough quarters, they should get the benefit they have earned. To not do this, is just wrong.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelAug 26th, 2009Someone from San Antonio, TX writes:
To deny survivor benefits to widows/widowers because they were teachers is grossly inequitable.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelAug 26th, 2009Someone from Hollywood, FL writes:
Most people have this all wrong. A person always gets his or her own SSA benefits. The problem arises when usually she believes she is being cheated out of her husbands benefits. You see, he paid FICA and Medicare for one person, himself. Anything the spouse gets is from the General Find. Remember, she has her own benefits. Think about this...he paid for 1 person and gets his benefits, she paid for 1 person and gets her benefits, what is so wrong with that? Unfairness is when a person pays into SSA,Railroad and or Civil Service retirement and gets an offset on their own earnings. Also people should stop calling SSI, their SSI. SSI is a federal welfare program. Nobody pays into SSI. It is just a government give away program for people who have no retirement benefits they paid into. Disability payments are a horse of a different color. Some people need help. That is a fact. I have a problem with junkies and drunks getting SSA/SSI by claiming they have emotional problems. If people want to complain, so for it but get your facts straight.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelAug 19th, 2009Someone from San Francisco, CA signed.
Aug 16th, 2009Someone from Franklin, NC writes:
As a disabaled fire fighter I can not receive a full S.S. benefit because of offset. I have worked outside the fire department for many years to supplement my income. I have contributed to S.S. by employee and self employment contrabutions for a large portion of my career. If I am ineligible for S.S. please refund all of the money I have contributed.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelAug 16th, 2009Someone from Nashotah, WI writes:
This is an unfair law. Individuals paying Social security taxes by payroll deductions should receive the benefits earned under those payments irregardless of government pensions not subject to social security taxes. That individual will be receiving a lesser amount of social security simply because of his/her earnings subject to social security taxes. To take away the ability to receive benefits paid for is wrong.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelAug 16th, 2009Someone from Carlisle, MA signed.
Aug 16th, 2009Someone from Carlisle, MA signed.
Aug 12th, 2009Someone from Peabody, MA signed.
Aug 11th, 2009Someone from Coshocton, OH signed.
Aug 11th, 2009Someone from Coshocton, OH writes:
THIS BILL IS ONLY FAIR, I HAD PAID INTO SS FOR 18 YEARS. iTS NOT FAIR TO REDUCE MY SS BECAUSE I CONTINUE TO PAY THE MEDICARE SECTION AND MANY PEOPLE COME TO THIS COUNTRY AND RECEIVED SSI BENEFITS THAT HAVE NOT PAID INTO IT. HOW RIGHT IS THAT TO AMERICANS?REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelAug 10th, 2009Someone from Stratford, CT signed.
Aug 7th, 2009Someone from Lake Forest, CA writes:
I worked in the private sector for 18 years, my deceased husband for 35 years. We both paid into Social Security. Later I worked for Orange County Children and Family Services for 11 years and now my Social Security has been reduced from $1700 as a widow, to $520. I am penalized more than $14,000 a year although my husband and I together worked more than 53 years and contributed to Social Security during that time. Please repeal these grossly inequitable provisions.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelAug 4th, 2009Someone from Covelo, CA signed.
Aug 4th, 2009Someone from Covelo, CA writes:
I worked at a City job for 5 years and contributed to my retirement under PERS; at 62 I became disabled, but thought I would wait to apply for my PERS retirement until 65; now they're telling me that to receive about $275/mo. that they might take away a part or the equivalent of this benefit from my social security payment of only $798/mo. This is absurd, and is a penalty for having worked a civil service job for only a few years! Please stop this absurdity by repelling the GPO and WEP provisions.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelAug 2nd, 2009Someone from Yorba Linda, CA writes:
I was a stay-at-home wife and mother (4 kids)for most of 31 years. Widowed at 51, went to work till age 70 at a city job and lost all my widow's SS benefit at retirement. This is not offset, but nullification. I am now retired on a pension of 18.9 years and only a reduced benefit (WEP) on my own meagre SS record of $144. If Congress can find money for TARP, etc., why not us......? No more excuses! You don't have money for the stimulus, health care, etc. either.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelJul 30th, 2009Someone from San Diego, CA writes:
I support this bill as I have lost out on some money and its not our fault that where we worked was not in Social Security. They don't pay us a bigger pension because of it.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelJul 30th, 2009Someone from Highland, CA signed.
Jul 30th, 2009Someone from Hilton Head Island, SC writes:
After 35 years as a public school teacher in Texas, where low teacher pay is the norm, and after qualifying on my own work record in other employment for Social Security, I am again being penalized for choosing public service by being denied the Social Security Reirement benefits I have earned. Disgraceful.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, CancelJul 29th, 2009Someone from Littleton, CO writes:
It is difficult to get along these days on a small federal pension and 40% of my social security which I paid into for 24 years.REPORT COMMENTS
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.
No, Cancel
Do you want to report these comments to the moderator for removal? They should be offensive, threatening, a duplicate submission, or spam.