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Strategy for Social Security’s WEP and GPO
Ask anyone affected by the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) provision on Social Security benefits, and you’re likely to get an earful and then some. Most, if not all, household’ affected by GPO and WEP hate it. Read more…
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As an aside, I wrote barack Obama who said he would repeal the WEP/GPO in keeping w/ his cmpaign promise…that didn’t happen. I also contacted my Ohio legislators asking for their help….they just give me “lip service” and agree to be noted as a sponsor, but nobody does anything. I wrote Pres. Trump and nothing either. Before any more money is directed toward illegals, how abt giving it to people who paid their share into SS???? Too much attention and money given to illegals and the WEP/GPO legal peeps are forgotten and dismissed.
I’m a widow & don’t get enough OPERS and my $115 from SS to get out of poverty. When my hubby died I lost almost $2,000 in widow’s benefit b/c of WEP/GPO and now I can enjoy (:( ) living in the poverty level. I worked 22 years in OPERS and 28 in private industry. I surely need the widow’s benefit to help me w/ my medical bills and just living and keeping my home.
the bill is now in the house if it not pass the house just close the door an go home stop dreaming .
we have ro get together and go to the congress to let them hear our voices like everybody else go
These bill to repeal the WEP & GPO have been introduced year after year and never get out of committee. Congress people just introduce these bills to show they’re sympathetic but that’s always the end of it. No vote in the House. No vote in the Senate. They just sit there and go nowhere. We’re being conned.
I agree 100%. This Repeal must get off the back burner and brought to the front and acted upon NOW.
People work multiple jobs both Government and Private sector to survive.
If you pay into Social Security you should get it. In my opinion this is no different than stealing from the American workers.
Thank Mr. Ronald Reagan for the GPO/WEP mess, he started this garbage, because of his belief that Social Security was for commies. He never made his disdain of Social Security a secret, likewise Medicare. He even made LPs (remember those?) where he said that Medicare would turn the U.S. into the Soviet Union within 20 years.
I remember when I used to like Ronald Reagan. That was before I retired and found myself cheated out of my earned Social Security benefits. But neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have really done anything to help us. They talk big and introduce bills that sit in committee and die. Why has there never been a vote on any of these bills? They’re all phonies.
The GPO/WEP is totally unfair because it is an earned benefit we are being denied. It is very discriminatory in that only 15 states were to be affected. I live in Alabama and it was not one of those. I an 72 and have worked 55 years. I need the remainder of my Social Security so I can live when I retire. Back when I retired in 1997, I could live on my government retirement but since then things have skyrocketed and I have to continue to work full time just to half way survive. This legislation is a horrible travesty of justice. It is time for it to change.
the WEP/GPO affects both me and my wife, how is this a justifiable law robbing seniors of Income when its needed
the most. when we retire, I guess its our misfortune that we worked and retired in an industrial state, the rest of people not in this category are not included, the other 33 states WHY NOT THEM, THIS LAW IS SO WITHOUT
just good cause its makes me very very sad, to respect our leaders in congress, PLEASE DO WHATS RIGHT AND REPEAL THE WEP?GPO NOW