Tomorrow, I will proudly vote to pass the Social Security Fairness Act and restore Social Security benefits for nearly 3 million public servants. It’s past time we right this 40-year-old wrong. (Part 1 of 2)
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Thank you. This repeal will save me from possibly becoming homeless in 2-3 yrs. I’ve waited 18 yrs & each yr I fall further into poverty. At 80, I am desperste.
Thank you! I’m one of those affected public servants. My social security check is $141.00 a month even though I worked for years in jobs outside of education too.
This sounds like the right thing but I am assuming they are paying into SS to get the benefit? That is the key. Everyone should have to pay in the correct credits and their income should determine their SS payment. If some are not paying the tax, they should not get it.
I earned my SS in jobs before teaching in my 40s. No administrator ever told me I was losing 2/3 of my SS. Learned after I retired. Was counting on a small pension from a short teaching career & my SS from those prior jobs. Now I’m 80. I need all my earned SS to stay in my tiny trailer. I earned it.
My life is just one example. There’s over 2.5 million of us. In the 1980s districts were begging private sector employees to switch careers to teach. WEP/GPO actually prevents people from using their private sector experience in public jobs like teaching. Why wld anyone switch just to be punished?
Yes - we still have to pay into SS and earn 40 credits. The problem with the current system is that we don't get our full SS if we also have a pension, even after we worked, often decades, in a job where we paid SS.
We know but we aren’t. I’m a retired public school educator with 34 years of teaching experience. Even though I have worked many jobs outside of education and contributed to Social Security since I was a teen, my benefits are reduced. I only get $141 a month in benefits. It’s maddening.
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Thank you for your support on this!