The NEA Board came to Washington last week and lobbied Congress on these issues:   GPO/WEP repeal. After the elections, the Social Security Fairness Act (S. 597/H.R. 82) is coming to the House floor—a historic first! Urge your representative to VOTE YES and your senators to push to bring the bill to the Senate floor. […]

  You did it, advocates! Last week, you made history. On Thursday afternoon, we reached the magic number of signatories to the “discharge petition”—218, a majority of the House—that triggered a floor vote on the Social Security Fairness Act (H.R. 82). The bill fully repeals GPO/WEP.   We are closer than ever before to our […]

  Daniel, Thanks to your tireless advocacy, the push to repeal the Government Pension Offset (GPO) and Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) has taken a historic step forward. On Sept. 10, Reps. Garret Graves (R-LA) and Abigail Spanberger (D-VA) filed a discharge petition to force Speaker Johnson to bring the Social Security Fairness Act (H.R. 82) to the […]