http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills info@washingtonwatch.com http://www.pjdoland.com/chai/?v=0.1 http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#47819 I retired from the federal government and got another job which I paid 100% Social Security taxes for the last 15 years --my Social Security is about 45 % --why don't I pay in 45%. I guess the they need the money for the people on SSI that never worked and paid in. Too bad Truman, Johnson and Regan all borrowed 50 billion from the SSA fund, Regan also borrowed 50 billion from the federal retire fund,(congress let them do this) this is what caused the act to begain with. What a mess, if I had to do it over again I would have never worked for civil service.... 47819@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#47412 Good for you - hold out forever. That way the money you paid in to social security can be used for someone who deserves it.... 47412@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#47343 I echo the sentiments of all those that oppose to the unfair treatment of the wep/gpo..I retired in 2004 from the usps after 22yrs. I am currently working in private sector and realize that my soc sec will be reduced or eliminated. My friend who retired from private sector after 22ys get her pension and soc sec. I just want what I paid,its already less because I dont have a lot of years in soc sec. Soc sec Adm doesnt mention this reduction in your annual earnings statements, you find out when you file. I am going to hold out until a repeal is won. THEY CALL THIS DISCRIMINATION,SO WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT?>TI... 47343@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#47063 So which is it 24 years or 26 years? If you look at the tables for significant earnings used by social security to calculate the offset you may find that you are not goint to see a 40 percent reduction. You will not see an offset for each year over 20 that you meet or exceed the table amount. In your case this could be as much as 20 percent.... 47063@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#47039 I worked 24 yrs. in private industry and paid my SS taxes. I have worked the last 15 years for the state government. When I retire from the state my state pension will be $1,300 a month (huge windfall!!). My 24 yrs of paying into SS will be reduced by 40% because just because I worked for the state. The government is actually stealing the money I put into SS for 26 years!! Who gets my money!!! This law should be considered illegal!!... 47039@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#46109 I think the only ones who read this are probably the ones that are in this situation. However, I believe it would be good to simplify our message at least in the beginning. The basic message the way I see it is that you can work for the federal government and get an annuity (many have small and many have larger checks) they may not need their social security, but I do. After retiring, if we choose to work a few years and pay into social security, we are then docked up to two thirds of what our social security check would be. This does not happen in private industry and can not be fair to us. I won't go any further because the number of years I worked and how much I receive is just a different number for all of us. It is the principal that is unfair. If you moved your neighbor's yard as a teenager and got paid $35., would another neighbor hire me and have the right to say,(after I mowed the yard, you have enough money and just give me $5.?... 46109@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EST http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#45743 To Doug from Florida - I may be wrong but I heard Sen. McCain said that we need to sit down like we did in 1983 and fix social security again. That is when the windfall provision was voted in. Only Obama has signed on to repeal this terribly unfair act. Also Obama wants no tax on the first $50,000. you have coming in as a senior. I like many things about McCain but I really do not think he understands the complete and total injustice of this. It will keep many elders in poverty.... 45743@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Sun, 02 Nov 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#45710 Sen. McCain - If you are serious about protecting my social security, please do away with the windfall elimination provision. I worked for 30 years for the federal govenment and paid $50,000 of my own money into my CSRS retirement. I also paid into social security for more than 40 quarter hours to qualify for social security retirement like any regular American. Yet, I am penalized more than than 50% because I am a Civil Service retiree. Where is the justice in this????????... 45710@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#44237 How can Congress make themselves exempt from a law? I do not know a lot about the process but aren't they in the business of making the laws - and we are all equal.... 44237@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#43208 I can not believe that Congress made themselves exempt from a provision that affects so many people so drastically financially. Are they better than us? To lose so much of your social security check puts many people at poverty level.... 43208@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#43032 The bozo's in Congress don't care about us. They have a 'cadillac' retirement and health care system until they die. Good ridance!... 43032@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#42627 I too worked under social security until I was 34 years old, then worked for the Postal Service. I retired from the Postal Service in 1999 and have been working again under social security. In my opinion, our social security payments are already reduced because all those years we didn't pay into social security, so to further reduce it because of the WEP provision, is double reducing it. Example: Had I worked under SS my whole career, I would probably get 1500.00 per month SS. But, because I worked for 20 years under Civial Service, the amount before the reduction is 700.00, and after the WEP, 374.00 per month. Do you get the picture? It is a travesty that others can get retirement pay and not have their SS reduced, but we are penalized.... 42627@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#42474 I retired from federal government and worked 10 years to beef up my Social Security - just to find out that two thirds of it would be sucked away with the windfall act. I need this to live on. My representative at Social Security said that Congress made themselves exempt from this windfall act!!!... 42474@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#41844 Please check out H.R. 82 & S. 206 to see which of your representatives and Senators have supported repeal of WEP & GPO. Then, vote for the party who is supporting you...NOT the Republican party, for sure. Thanks to those Members of Congress & Senators who support repeal. Senators Bob Corker (R-TN) and Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Congressman John J. Duncan (R-TN) will not get my vote (unless they sign on).... 41844@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#41595 If you pay SS taxes for 29 years and you expect that you will get $800/mo BUT you earn $2,400/mo in Teacher's retirement THEN you will get NOTHING from SS. Who gets the thousands of dollars that you paid into SS?... 41595@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#41447 I'm a 60 yr. old, divorced and work at a close to minimum wage job. My ex husband retired from IBM with a $l00,000.00 + yearly income. I paid into SS the number of years I worked and raised 4 children. We were married 8 years divored less than 2 years and remarried for another 8+ years (total of 17 years of marriage) and during this time he worked and I stayed at home raising children. I now find out that I cannot even collect half of his SS because the number of years Married must be 10 CONSECUTIVE years. How unfair is this that 17 years while I stayed home with children all SS was going into his pocket. This is a GROSS injustice!!... 41447@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#41451 Kitty, Too bad, but just what does all of that have to do with WEP elimination?... 41451@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#41413 There is absolutely nothing wrong with the WEP. It rights a wrong that had existed for years. Leave it alone. I do not think this legislation is right or needed.... 41413@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#41283 I don't understand how so many of you retired civil service workers can even get a ss retirement check. I too am in PERS and do not pay a penny into ss. My PERS pension will be so large I wouldn't receive a ss pension anyway. My union pays my pension share so I pay nothing into my monthly pension retirement so I pay into a deffered compensation plan which will give me an extra couple hundred thousand to look forward to plus my monthly pay. I spent my entire life in civil service, military, federal and now city. I did pay a few years into ss but not enough to want to take from my own grandma's pocket. My dad is going to retire from the police force with a large pension which he never paid into ss. They have a drop program that doubles your pay upto 8 years after your 30. That equals 16 years of pay into his retirement that he didn't have to work plus thousands of hours of sick and vacation they pay for, do think he wants that little bit of ss money he paid while in the marines?... 41283@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#41285 Mark, It appears that most of these folks are simply greedy. They want everything they can get, even if it is not fair for them to have it.... 41285@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#41173 Come on people, what do you want - a free lunch. Your benefit under the WEP is much more fair now that it was before. Now you get what you deserve instead of an artificially inflated benefit.... 41173@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#40996 Bolo We would appreciate it if you would send back your social security check. You obviously don't want it. Thanks.... 40996@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#41001 Glenda, Your comment concerning payinto social security as a sub is incorrect. As a member of PSRS, even retired, you are not subject to social security withholding. If your district is doing so tell them to check with PSRS. And if all of you really understood how the social security benefit is calculated and how the WEP prevents an unfair advantage in that calculation you might not whine so much. But since it is all about putting more in your pocket, even though undeserved, I doubt that any of you will try. And I am also affected by the WEP after being a Missouri teacher. But I understand why the WEP is fair.... 41001@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#41003 Ed Johnson, GPHR, Your social security IS NOT affected by your military retirement. You paid into the social security trust fund while earning your military retirement. The people doing all the complaining did not pay social secuirty on the earnings that got them their government or school retirement.... 41003@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_726.html#40579 I worked for the USPS for a little over 30 yrs plus less than 20 in ssa substantial earnings years, so when I retired,the good ole gov got 60% and I got 40% of the minimal amt of ssa benefit that I was entitled to. Plus when my wife gets 62, her benefit will be from my reduced amount, not the full amount. At least when I croak, she will go to the unreduced amount for her benefit. I started to tell ssa to keep it, wasn't enough for me to walk to the mailbox for.... 40579@http://www.washingtonwatch.com Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT