Social Security Fairness Act gaining traction

[jimbrauer]

HR 82 just passed…347 YEA votes! Now…S 597 needs a VOTE…to repeal: WEP and GOVERNMENT PENSION OFFSET….asap! Currently: 62 Co-Sponsors. . My deceased husband PAID IN....and I DON'T get ANY of his larger benefit! I taught Title 1 Reading to impoverished kids in MO. and KS. I need my SURVIVOR BENEFIT as a widow….right now!

[troychambliss]

No disabled American should be forced to live below poverty yet our elected officials & media do not care !

[josephloughrey]

Simply make the federal government return the money they have taken and pay reasonable interest on it.

[anything]

THANK YOU to all those who SUPPORTED HR82. Previous politicians ignored the problem for years and years because quite honestly they didn't care. Now that there is the support from the majority of Representatives to fix this, the opposition comes up with "a new solution". And do you know how long their "better bill" will take to implement? Probably NEVER, as it has very little support and is therefore doomed to fail, which is EXACTLY what those who oppose H.R. 82 want. Years and years and years and years of taking money out of hard working peoples paychecks and give them nothing to crumbs at the end. What a slimy group of politicians who oppose this knowing they will screw millions of Americans for decades to come, what a bunch of scumbags.

[Leszkoe]

how about discriminatory
WEP - Windfall Elimination Provision !!!
Isnot stealing money from retirees ???

[JameyLane]

Brilliant make the fund go bankrupt even earlier by giving it to people who get fat government pensions too.

[HappyGoLucky]

The need to make it right...let me paint this scenario for you...let's say I have a 70 thousand dollar life insurance policy with company A, and I also have a 100 thousand dollar life insurance policy with company B, after paying in all these years I pass away so my beneficiaries collect 70 thousand from company A, but when they go to company B, to collect the 100 thousand dollar policy, they are told you already collected 70 thousand from company A, so we are just going to pay you 30 thousand dollars ...thats basically what will happen to me, I worked enough credits to draw full SS, but because I change jobs, and will now draw a civil service pension, I will only be able to draw 55 percent of my SS ... how is that right?..ps the government has no problem taken the money I've paid in over the years and blowing it on other entitlement programs for people here illegally