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Repeal the Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision!

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Our Allies – Endorsements and Supporting Organizations for the Repeal of GPO/WEP

National partners across the United StatesPartners across the USA Support the Repeal of GPO/WEP

  • National Education Association (GPO/WEP Issue)

California

  • California Teachers Association
  • California Federation of Teachers
  • California Retired Teachers Association (CalRTA)
  • San Jose Retired Employees Association
  • United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA-Active and UTLA-Retired)

Colorado

  • Colorado Retired School Employees Association

Connecticut

  • Association of Retired Teachers of Connecticut (CRTA)

Georgia

  • Georgia Retired Educators Association (GREA)

Illinois

  • Illinois Retired Teachers Association (IRTA)
  • The Retired Teachers Association of Chicago

Louisiana

  • Louisiana Retired Teachers Association

Massachusetts

  • Massachusetts Retired teachers Association (REAM)
  • Massachusetts Association of Police Chiefs (MCOPA)

Missouri

  • Missouri Retired Teachers Assn. & Public School Personnel

Nevada

  • Retired Public Employees of Nevada

Ohio

  • Ohio Retired Teachers Association

Texas

  • Texas Retired Teachers Association

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Quotes from Our Leaders

This is a bipartisan issue.

“The WEP and GPO have enormous financial implications for many of our teachers, police officers, firefighters, postal workers, and other public employees. Given the important responsibilities, it is simply unfair to penalize them when it comes to their Social Security benefits. These public servants—or their spouses—have all paid taxes into the Social Security system. So have their employers.”

Susan Collins,
US Senator (R-Maine)

Barbara Boxer, US Senator“I have joined the effort to repeal those two provisions of the Social Security Law that negatively impact so many of our public servants, including teachers.”

Barbara Boxer,
US Senator

Barbara Lee, Congresswoman, D-CA“It’s appalling that you are being penalized for going into teaching. Can you imagine? It’s hard for me to even fathom. If anything we should be looking at ways to better support our teachers.” May 30, 2009, Social Security Fairness Rally.

Barbara Lee,
Congresswoman, D-CA

Tom Torlakson, Calif Assembly D-Antioch“Two provisions in the Federal Social Security Law — the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) — prevent second career public servants from collecting earned Social Security Benefits when they retire or when a spouse dies.”

Tom Torlakson,
Calif. State Supt. of Instruction

“We’re not saying the people who haven’t been paying social security should get social security benefit, we’re not saying that at all. What we’re saying is if you’ve paid into social security you should get some benefit even though you have a pension because you’ve paid your fair share you should receive some of the benefit.”

Aaron Schock,
US Congressman (R-IL)

Recent Action Alerts

  • Action Alert # 54 – Now We Have a New Senate Bill — S. 896! May 16, 2013
  • Action Alert # 53 – We Have a New House Bill!– HR 1795 May 1, 2013
  • ALERT #52 – Washington D.C. Report and What We Can Do Now April 23, 2013
  • Action Alert # 51 – The Time to Take Action to Back Us Up is NOW! March 27, 2013
  • Action Alert #50 – Make an Appointment with Your Congress Member! March 13, 2013
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