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New bill takes aim at unfair Social Security benefit cuts to educators

Publish Date: October 18, 2019

Tell Congress to stop the unfair benefit cuts: Send your online letter now! Examples of the WEP and GPO are given below The American Federation of Teachers is endorsing a bill--the Public Servants Protection and Fairness Act--that would finally address an unfair offset to Social Security benefits for public employees receiving pensions--including school employee members of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas. This offset, the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP), reduces Social Security benefits of local, state, and federal retirees who worked in Social Security-covered employment and who also receive a government pension from their non-Social Security covered government employment. In other words, Texas school employees with TRS pensions who also worked in the private sector have long suffered with significant cuts to their monthly Social...

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