Support HR 1795- Pass the Social Security Fairness Act
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Jul 7th, 2011Someone from Amherst, OH signed.
Jul 7th, 2011Someone from Damascus, VA writes:
they need to pay out alest double of they do. pep on s.s should beable to live not just survive.and there meds are also killing them.some do with out them. just pay back what they have stolen ofer the year would fixs it for a long time.Jul 7th, 2011Someone from San Antonio, TX signed.
Jul 2nd, 2011Someone from Rancho Cucamonga, CA writes:
I do not understand why this isn't a matter for the courts. My right to receive my widows benefits shouldn't be any different than any other citizen.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 30th, 2011Someone from Boring, OR writes:
I'd better be getting my full benefit when I retire in addition to PERS or I may be standing in the welfare line, or at the very least, eating top ramen and peanut butter in my retirement years with no money to do anything with but pay the bills! NOT OK! If I don't get the benefit, then I shouldn't be required to pay into the system, then I could put that money into a retirement account. As it is, I am putting money into a 403B, but not enough ... and health care keeps taking a bigger bite out of our paychecks and bank account with higher premiums and deductibles each year. When does it stop! With the way things are going, I'll be dead before I'm able to collect a dime as the state keeps messing with PERS and the Soc. Sec. retirement age keeps increasing! But maybe that is the intent!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 29th, 2011Someone from Troy, OH signed.
Jun 29th, 2011Someone from Seagoville, TX writes:
Ditto the other comments. I paid into social security for 20 years before working in education. Now I will lose most of my social security benefit. To make matters worse, I cannot live on my salary from public education alone, so I continue to do contract work for which I have to pay self-employment taxes into social security. So each year, I continue to pay in with no real future benefit!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 28th, 2011Someone from Dayton, OH writes:
Totally unfair to hardworking folks who are punished for working and contributing to both SS and PERS.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 28th, 2011Someone from Lakeview, OH writes:
Americans who never paid one cent into Social Security are given a social security benefit. Public employees who also worked in the private sector have paid their FULL MANDATORY DEDUCTION, but then are reduced if we receive our PERS. Many retirees have pension funds other than social security, do those pensions also reduce their SS benefit? Do federal employees get their SS benefit reduced? For someone who does not have 30+ years with public service; the PERS is not that great and neither is the SS benefit.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 28th, 2011Someone from Rockford, IL writes:
We are supposed to believe in no taxation without representation. We are supposed to believe in the great American work ethic. Then, at the end of our careers, we discover that neither of these apply to many of us, especially married women who worked partly in a pension system and partly in the private sector. Not only will my own SS benefits be cut to nearly nothing, it is possible that I will receive nothing from my husband's SS should he pass away before I do. My pension is based on 16 years of work and also very small. Christine Swanberg, TeacherREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 27th, 2011Someone from Dayton, OH writes:
On June 15, 2011 my editorial "Reductions to Social Security Benefits Unfair" was printed by the Dayton Daily News. The GPO and WEP are reducing my social security benefits down to $315.00/month. I have a small OPERS pension. The Cincinnati Enquirer also posted my editorial "OPERS - GPO and WEP - Windfall or Pitfall?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 22nd, 2011Someone from Dayton, OH writes:
Truly unfair - we government retirees pay into the system and then get penalized for doing so, while some who have contributed nothing gets benefits.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 18th, 2011Someone from Troy, OH signed.
Jun 18th, 2011Someone from Blue Springs, MO writes:
I worked for the government for over 20 years and paid a FULL share into their MANDATORY retirement system and I worked for over 20 years and paid a FULL SHARE into the MANDATORY social security system. I should then be ENTITLED to a FULL SHARE of my rightfully earned social security benefits!!! It?s time our congressmen and senators stop waiting for us to die and pay us our PROMISED full benefits.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 18th, 2011Someone from New Carlisle, OH writes:
Fair Tax/Fair Benefits: I worked 40% of my working life I paid into Social Security. Because I worked 60% of my working life under another program, I have lost most of my Social Security. If we want fair Tax, we should have fair benefits.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 17th, 2011Someone from Blue Springs, MO signed.
Jun 17th, 2011Someone from Goldvein, VA writes:
Feel the windfall/offset is unethical, criminal, and is killing me as I cannot even afford medication I need. It's my money that government used elsewhere (have transcripts from CNN aired 8-10 explaining one trillion dollars of SS money spent on wars, weapons, education, whatever government). It's my money; I worked for it; you have no right to steel it. SHAME ON ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 16th, 2011Someone from Dayton, OH signed.
Jun 16th, 2011Someone from Dayton, OH signed.
Jun 16th, 2011Someone from Hamilton, OH signed.
Jun 16th, 2011Someone from Dayton, OH signed.
Jun 16th, 2011Someone from Dayton, OH signed.
Jun 16th, 2011Someone from West Milton, OH writes:
Please pass HR235 and S.484. It is inherently unfair to penalize recipients who paid into the system simply because they receive a state government pension.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 16th, 2011Someone from Dayton, OH writes:
Please discontinue penalizing government retirees. We deserve the same access to our full social security payments as those who receive pensions from private companies.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 16th, 2011Someone from Dayton, OH writes:
My meager Social Security benefit from working as a teacher in PA for 12 years has been halved by WEP just because I also receive a pension for working 12 years in Ohio schools . Why should I be punished by not getting what I paid into for those 12 years? Where is the fairness in that?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 15th, 2011Someone from Antioch, TN writes:
I believe it is VERY unfair to penalize those of us that have worked for the public sector and paid into Social Security, as well as worked for the state and paid into a Public Employees Retirement System. Federal Employees are permitted to "double-dip" so aren't state employees. It's a double standard!!!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 15th, 2011Someone from Loganville, GA writes:
We are not asking for a handout, we are asking for what we rightfully deserve and what we worked for. please pass these bills and stop penalizing us.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 10th, 2011Someone from San Jose, CA writes:
I wish to support HR 235 and S 484 the Social Security Fairness ActREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 8th, 2011Someone from Yarmouth, ME signed.
Jun 6th, 2011Someone from Lakewood, OH writes:
My meager Social Security benefit from 12 years of service in the Air Force has been halved by WEP just because I also receive a modestly better paying equivalent for over 35 additional working years in Germany. Why should I be punished by not getting what I paid into for those 12 years? Where is the logic here?REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 4th, 2011Someone from Hockley, TX writes:
Former Firefighter now educational institution employee, I earned the benefits.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelJun 2nd, 2011Someone from Seabrook, TX writes:
I am in hopes with all the education cuts that more and more will find out about the WEP and begin to support the repeas of the Social Security Fairness Act 2011. It is immoral that this has been ignored by the Committee let's see this has been going on how many decades now? Something is wrong and it must lie with the people because if the people would ALL scream about this unfairness and vote accordingly...it just might get fixed.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 30th, 2011Someone from Portland, OR signed.
May 27th, 2011Someone from Elk Grove, CA writes:
Separate systems, fully paid into both - should be fair that I receive from both, and my wife shouldn't be penalized, she's paid up in SS by herself. Private Sector folks can pay into two systems and draw from both. Buy Two separate Life Insurance Policies, one isn't allowed to cancel out the other - they're separate premiums; Annuities are the same way. Two different savings accounts in two different Banks, one isn't allowed to cancel out the interest of the other to you or deny you your original deposits to withdraw when you are good and ready to start withdrawing! It is more than highway robbery, it's Senior Citizen abuse and robbery.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 26th, 2011Someone from Claverack, NY signed.
May 24th, 2011Someone from Pittsburgh, PA signed.
May 22nd, 2011Someone from Monrovia, CA writes:
The Representatives know this will go back and forth so they support with a wink. Civil servants and teachers should put their strength into voting for those who will actually do something for us. Rethink who you vote for.REPORT COMMENTS
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