Repeal the WEP/GPO Penalties and Protect Earned Social Security Benefits
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Jul 15th, 2015Someone from Owensboro, KY writes:
I have worked since I was 14. I have always been a contributing member of society. Please repeal WEP/GPO now. Do not punish government employees for all their hard work. Do the right thing!! -
Jul 15th, 2015Someone from Owensboro, KY writes:
I have worked since I was 14. I have always been a contributing member of society. Please repeal WEP/GPO now. Do not punish government employees for all their hard work. Do the right thing!!REPORT COMMENTS
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Jul 15th, 2015Someone from Owensboro, KY writes:
I have worked since I was 14. I have always been a contributing member of society. Please repeal WEP/GPO now. Do not punish government employees for all their hard work. Do the right thing!!REPORT COMMENTS
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Jul 15th, 2015Someone from Hollis Center, ME writes:
This would truly impact our living costs. Please stop this for it is truly unfair.REPORT COMMENTS
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Jul 15th, 2015Someone from Hollis Center, ME signed.
Jul 14th, 2015Someone from Carlisle, PA signed.
Jul 14th, 2015Someone from Santa Barbara, CA signed.
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Jul 14th, 2015Someone from Philadelphia, PA signed.
Jul 14th, 2015Someone from Los Angeles, CA signed.
Jul 14th, 2015Someone from Santa Barbara, CA writes:
I was shocked to learn of this inequity. There is NO justification for continuing it. Repeal WEP/GPO now.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 14th, 2015Someone from Littlerock, CA signed.
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Jul 14th, 2015Someone from Denton, TX writes:
I am a retired widow and I feel discriminated by these windfalls. It was bad to realize I could not draw my SS, but I didn't pay all in. However my husband did and when I found out I could not draw his full SS that was devastating. The off set difference was about $1100. I so hope we are able to do this!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 14th, 2015Someone from Wild Rose, WI signed.
Jul 14th, 2015Someone from Avery, CA writes:
I am a woman who started public school teaching at mid-life after a divorce. Before that, I worked in the private sector, paying into social security, as did my husband. I then spent 20 years in public school teaching. Since the GPO/WEP laws did not go into effect until January 1, 1986, I had no idea when I began teaching that the pension due me from Social Security would be more than cut in half, income I was counting on to give me a full pension at retirement. Now I am 68, retired, but forced to live on half of the benefit of my entire adult working life. This impacts my life greatly at this time, including home ownership. It is very unfair that we, who have worked the first half of our adult lives paying into Social Security, are then penalized for spending the second half of our employment career at a public service occupation. I feel this impacts women from my generation in particular, who have often entered a public sector profession in mid-life, after children are grown. I very much appreciate your support in the passage of this bill.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 14th, 2015Someone from Cicero, IN signed.
Jul 14th, 2015Someone from Livingston, MT writes:
Please repeal this very unfair provision, too much is being sent out of this country. This law is so unfair to US CITIZENS.. THANK YOU FOR ALL OF US.....REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 14th, 2015Someone from Salisbury, NC writes:
while working, I didn't pay in to ss at a reduced rate so it should not be reduced now that I've retired.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 14th, 2015Someone from Camarillo, CA signed.
Jul 14th, 2015Someone from Colfax, IN signed.
Jul 14th, 2015Someone from Portland, OR signed.
Jul 14th, 2015Someone from Los Angeles, CA writes:
Yes!! Teachers deserve their social security--they earned it, and it is theirs.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 13th, 2015Someone from Fernandina Beach, FL signed.
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Jul 13th, 2015Someone from Elsa, TX signed.
Jul 13th, 2015Someone from Brownsville, TX writes:
I , and others, have been robbed because of money taken from my paychecks which had nothing to do with my school district employmentREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 13th, 2015Someone from Victorville, CA signed.
Jul 13th, 2015Someone from Berne, IN signed.
Jul 13th, 2015Someone from Struthers, OH writes:
This law is detrimental to seniors. My father, a recent widower, is drowning in debt because of this. It is unfair that his wife worked all her life and paid into the system and he is only entitled to $4.00 of that money because he was a public employee. Give these people what they and their spouses are entitled to after working 40+ years and contributing to social security.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 13th, 2015Someone from Cicero, IN writes:
Single mom raising child, had to work 2 sometime 3 jobs to get by. Social security taken out on me all those years from 2 of my jobs, been working since I was 14. Now when I get ready to retire after giving federal gov. ( postal worker) 30 years, and still working part time, I can't have my full benefits from social security, not fair, why did u keep taking my money if u were not going to let me draw. There r people who have pension from military, govement and social security, but someone like myself can't get what we r entitled too. Please repeal that law.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 13th, 2015Someone from Sylmar, CA writes:
Is the right thing to do for those of us that have worked another job to get through college and supplement the low starting wages for teachers.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 13th, 2015Someone from Cicero, IN signed.
Jul 13th, 2015Someone from Wrightwood, CA writes:
This is needed by people like me who entered the teaching profession late, after working many years earning Social Security. I will need my earned SS benefits to supplement a very small pension when I retire.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 13th, 2015Someone from Addison, IL signed.
Jul 13th, 2015Someone from Labelle, FL writes:
Rep. Please help all the people in ur district. It is wrong for the Government to use our SS money. We worked very very hard and long years for our RETIREMENT.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJul 13th, 2015Someone from Bangor, ME writes:
I am a member of the population which changed direction at mid-life. When I began teaching at age 35 I had already spent 15 years working under Social Security. When I left teaching I again worked under Social Security for another 13 years. Since the GPO/WEP laws did not go into effect until January 1, 1986, I had no idea when I began teaching that the pension due me from Social Security would be more than cut in half, income I was counting on to give me a full pension at retirement. I estimate that at a minimum, I have lost $18,000 to the WEP, money that I expected would complete my pension after working only 19 years in a public school position in the State of Maine. It is totally unfair, that we who have worked under Social Security are penalized for spending part of our employment career at public service occupations. I appreciate your support in the passage of this bill.REPORT COMMENTS
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