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Repeal the WEP/GPO Penalties and Protect Earned Social Security Benefits

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  • Jul 19th, 2015
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  • Jul 18th, 2015
    Someone from Brick, NJ writes:
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    The WEP/GOP is theft. If I worked both Civil Service and private sector and paid for a pension and Social Security I should receive from both. I cannot understand how the WEP/GOP ever became about. If I paid for it, I should get it.
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  • Jul 18th, 2015
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  • Jul 18th, 2015
    Someone from Universal City, TX writes:
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    Penalized for my career path and then stealing half my social security because I worked 40 years for a pension supported by local government. I do have my ss quarters and I don't have but 10 years of substantial income. Yet you give it away to illegals and government "suckers" (section 8 career welfare types)
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  • Jul 18th, 2015
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  • Jul 17th, 2015
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  • Jul 17th, 2015
    Someone from Malabar, FL writes:
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    Certain parts of the WEP are flawed to the point of outright robbery. Paid into pension in Canada for 20 plus years then moved to the U.S. legally and paid into S.S. for over 25 years.Now S.S. wants to reduce my benefits because I get a pension check from my Cdn contributions. Reduce my S.S.benefit and then TAX my Cdn. benefits as income. That's ROBBERY
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  • Jul 17th, 2015
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  • Jul 17th, 2015
    Someone from Santa Clara, CA writes:
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    This is a prime example of how the government is ripping off hard earned money from the working class. On the other hand, most of the laws are designed to benefit the big corps.
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  • Jul 17th, 2015
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  • Jul 17th, 2015
    Someone from Hendersonville, TN writes:
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    WEP also affects immigrants who earned Social Security in another country. They are also penalized and have their Social Security reduced by this rule. Seems that working hard and contributing in more than one country results in further taxation of earned benefits.
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  • Jul 16th, 2015
    Someone from Pueblo, CO writes:
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    the gpo offset is costing about 2/3 of my social security
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  • Jul 16th, 2015
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  • Jul 16th, 2015
    Someone from Huntington Beach, CA writes:
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    THE WEP IS UNADULTERATED FRAUD. IT MUST BE REPEALED! THOSE RESPONDIBLE PARTIES SHOULD BE FINED, IMPRISIONED AND NEVER BE ALLOWED TO HOLD PUBLIC OFFICE FOR THE REMAINDRR OF THEIR LIVES!
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  • Jul 16th, 2015
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    Someone from Springvale, ME writes:
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    Really unfairly
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  • Jul 16th, 2015
    Someone from Grand Junction, CO writes:
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    There is absolutely no justification for WEP/GPO. I paid into Social Security long before WEP/GPO was passed and I was counting on my full social security benefit at retirement age. I spent my later years in education and now (because I chose to teach) I am getting penalized with a reduced benefit from Social Security. I don't know why it was ever passed in the first place, but it is so unfair to the people who worked hard and earned that benefit. Please repeal NOW!!!
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  • Jul 16th, 2015
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  • Jul 15th, 2015
    Someone from Everett, MA writes:
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    In my youth I believed in putting monies into SS system for my retirement. Now I feel cheated and lied to by my own government. I worked for them the first fifteen years of my youth as a slave to a system that was suppose to benefit me. I still have to pay my college loans back and they get to take my time again, because I'm still working part time, I can't afford to retirer.
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  • Jul 15th, 2015
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  • Jul 15th, 2015
    Someone from Buxton, ME writes:
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    This is truly unfair!!!
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