Steps you can take now to help the cause!
The Alerts you find below are still useful. Go ahead and do them!
HOW TO SIGN THE PETITION AND BE COUNTED (Latest Alerts are below these instructions.)
1. Go to http://wh.gov/4KL
2. Click on “Create an Account” on the blue bar at the bottom of the page. Fill in the information and click “Register.”
3. Check your email for the letter with the links back to the site. It may take several minutes to arrive. Click the link and sign the petition.
4. Trouble shooting:
- The site is often swamped. Bookmark http://wh.gov/4KL and try later.
- If the link they send you doesn’t seem to work, go to wh.gov/4KL again and sign in, anyway.
- If you think you may have signed in and nothing has happened yet, refresh wh.gov/4KL and try to sign in.
Thank you! Persistence works!!!! A special THANK YOU to NEA and all the retired and active teacher and public worker associations who have publicized this!
PETITION TEXT
Repeal the Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision and restore SS fairness for public servants!
The Government Pension Offset and the Windfall Elimination Provision deny earned Social Security benefits to more than 1.5 million Americans, mostly women. They were designed to cut costs for Soc. Sec. and were hastily voted into law without careful study. This has resulted in the formulas that they use for persons who have earned pensions from non-SS covered government jobs being more punitive than the SS measures that they were supposed to replicate. The S.S. benefits were earned in work not related to their government work, or by being a dependent spouse. These govt. pensions were earned and are taxed differently by the Federal government. There is no valid reason for linking them to Social Security. See “More Info”on SSFairness.com for references to CRS and NCPSSM reports.