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Support HR 1795- Pass the Social Security Fairness Act

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  • Jul 10th, 2010
    Someone from Trabuco Canyon, CA writes:
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    Pass the Social Security Fairness Act. The Windfall Elimination Provision has severely slashed my Social Security benefits, creating serious financial hardship for me.
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  • Jul 9th, 2010
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  • Jul 9th, 2010
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  • Jul 7th, 2010
    Someone from West Palm Beach, FL writes:
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    Support the windfall elimination. It really is theft.
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  • Jul 6th, 2010
    Someone from Safety Harbor, FL signed.
  • Jul 1st, 2010
    Someone from Tehachapi, CA writes:
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    The WEP and GPO are nothing more than legalized theft by our government. We need the pass the Social Security Fairness Act now - this year.
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  • Jun 28th, 2010
    Someone from Barberton, OH signed.
  • Jun 28th, 2010
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  • Jun 28th, 2010
    Someone from El Paso, TX writes:
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    I am employeed at a Community College in Texas and am 100% vested in Social Security. I encourage Congress to support HR 235 and S. 484 - Social Security Fairness Act so that I and others in my situation are not penalized for having paid into social security.
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  • Jun 28th, 2010
    Someone from El Paso, TX writes:
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    people that have earned their credits should be eligible to receive their ss payments, regardless of where they work.
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  • Jun 28th, 2010
    Someone from El Paso, TX writes:
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    I currently work in a community college and have fully paid into Social Security benefits.
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  • Jun 28th, 2010
    Someone from El Paso, TX signed.
  • Jun 27th, 2010
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  • Jun 26th, 2010
    Someone from Galax, VA writes:
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    Has anything been done in 2010??
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  • Jun 22nd, 2010
    Someone from Shelby, OH signed.
  • Jun 22nd, 2010
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  • Jun 21st, 2010
    Someone from Fort Myers, FL writes:
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    I get a small pension from the stae of Mass. 16,000 a year. My Social Security is cut more than half. If they think they can live on this amount yhen they are nuts. I worked and paid into Social Security and i should not be punished .
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  • Jun 21st, 2010
    Someone from Reno, NV signed.
  • Jun 21st, 2010
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  • Jun 21st, 2010
    Someone from Jeffersonville, IN writes:
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    I also earned my 40+ hours of credits before, during and after my service as a law enforcement officer in Kentucky. The WEP provision needs to be removed and Police Officers should receive their full benefits. If the government can find 54 Million dollars from that criminal Chris Dodd to bankroll an Indian casino in his home state then why are we denied repeatedly. We are a bigger voting block.
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  • Jun 17th, 2010
    Someone from Mankato, MN writes:
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    I worked to earn my 40 credits of social security before and during work as a peace officer. I retired as a peace officer and I am now employed and contributing once again to social security. Either allow me to receive the minimum payment which I have rightfully earned, or stop taking money from me.
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  • Jun 17th, 2010
    Someone from Mankato, MN writes:
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    I worked to earn my 40 credits of social security before and during work as a peace officer. I retired as a peace officer and I am now employed and contributing once again to social security. Either allow me to receive the minimum payment which I have rightfully earned, or stop taking money from me.
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  • Jun 11th, 2010
    Someone from New London, CT signed.
  • Jun 6th, 2010
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  • Jun 2nd, 2010
    Someone from Estero, FL signed.
  • May 27th, 2010
    Someone from Rio Hondo, TX writes:
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    This bill should be passed, otherwise the Goverment should return all of our money to us who paid into the system, that would be fair instead of using our money for hopeless programs such as health care or all who paid into the system otherwise give us full health care without any deductables for the citizens who paid into the system, we are being punish for seeking better jobs which did not required us to pay into the system
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  • May 27th, 2010
    Someone from Compton, CA signed.
  • May 23rd, 2010
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  • May 23rd, 2010
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  • May 20th, 2010
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  • May 19th, 2010
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  • May 19th, 2010
    Someone from Framingham, MA writes:
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    I have worked since the age of 14. BECAUSE I WAS RAISED TO EARN A LIVING. As a women in the workforce with low wages, I have relied on the future earnings of social security and was taken back when the government made my future uncertain in retaining a decent way of life. Denying the full benefit of social security to those who have applied their deligent work to pay into social security is not reasonalbe. I am 67 and cannot retire. Still working two jobs. Keeping my health is promising me that I can work into the future for who knows how long. Although there is never an ideal to a situation working forever is not possible. Please vote for HR235 and S484. THANK YOU
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  • May 18th, 2010
    Someone from Zephyrhills, FL writes:
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    My wife has worked very hard and earned her social security benefits. She is also a retired school teacher with a retirement benefit from the state of Kentucky. Many persons who have worked in the private sector with two or more jobs for so many years who have pensions from their employers don't get penalized by one employer just because they are receiving pension income from another employer. What would give a employer the right to reduce a person's pension amount just because they are receiving a pension from another employer? That pension was earned through hard work and is needed during retirement to make ends meet. Why is social security any different???? Please support HR235 and S. 484.
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  • May 17th, 2010
    Someone from South Pasadena, CA signed.
  • May 15th, 2010
    Someone from Rocklin, CA writes:
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    BILL S484 SHOULD BE PASSED BECAUSE IT IS A VIOLATION OF MANY PEOPLES CIVIL AND CONSTUTIONAL RIGHTS , BECAUSE THE CONSTUTION SAYS EVERYONE WILL BE TREATED EQUAL, AND S484 TAKES THE GOD GIVEN RIGHTS AWAY FROM SO MANY GOOD PEOPLE.
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  • May 15th, 2010
    Someone from Cerritos, CA writes:
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    We deserve the full Social Security we have worked for. Please do not deny this from us who worked so hard to earn ir. Think of this as being independent from government aid as we grow older. Thanks.
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  • May 12th, 2010
    Someone from Pineville, LA signed.
  • May 11th, 2010
    Someone from Stewartstown, PA writes:
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    This legislation has been languishing in Congress and the Social Security Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee for over a decade. Barbara Kennelly, President of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare and former ranking member of the Social Security Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee and Counselor to the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration apparently has done nothing to pass or promote the Social Security Fairness Act and Windfall Elimination Provision that effects every retired law enforcement officer in this country including me. The law enforcement officers of this country earned, deserve and have died for the right to full Social Security retirement benefits in addition to their respective department pensions that they have paid for. Our senators and representatives in congress continue to sit and do nothing for the thin blue line, the first and foremost line of defense in this country. The Grande Lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police advise us that there are only 309 co-sponsors in the House and only 29 co-sponsors of this bill in the Senate. We need and demand that the people that we put in Washington to represent us do it and do it now, not next week, next month or ten more years from now. I've written letters to President Obama and the White House web site with absolutely no response. With things as they are in this country, if I were the President and Congress, I would listen to the needs of law enforcement both active and retired and take our cause up NOW. Storm clouds are billowing, an ominuos sign ! The people are not happy and we are going to begin to show how unhappy we are come November. This country was born over 200 years ago on a revolution and it's going to be reborn again the same way if our representatives do not heed the will of the people.
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