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NARFE President, Margaret L. Baptiste, calls on each and every NARFE member to phone, fax or e-mail their congressional delegation – one Representative and both Senators—to urge them to include Premium Conversion in the economic stimulus package being prepared by the incoming Obama Administration and Congressional leaders.  In a December 23rd letter, President Baptiste urged the President-elect to “include a proposal in the economic stimulus package which would allow federal civilian annuitants as well as active duty military personnel and retirees to use pretax annuity or retirement pay dollars to pay for their share of employer-sponsored health insurance.  Currently, federal annuitants and active duty military personnel and retirees are denied this benefit afforded their counterparts who are actively employed in the civil service and private sector.”

Now President Baptiste has inaugurated an URGENT ACTION ALERT to every NARFE member.  Each NARFE member should immediately contact his or her Representative and two Senators to urge them to include Premium Conversion in the economic stimulus package.  A groundswell of NARFE communications sent immediately could provide civilian and military retirees an economic boost that they would inject into the economy when most needed.

To both facilitate and challenge NARFE activists, the federation producing the most “per capita, electronic advocacy on the NARFE Legislative Action Center will receive a scholarship to cover the registration fee for the NARFE Legislative Training Conference in March.  NARFE activists can participate by linking to www.capwiz.com/narfe and sending a prepared text to their one Representative and two Senators.  The contest begins immediately and closes January 31st.

Two additional challenges, phone and fax, while outside the contest, afford telephone activists a path to make their views know immediately.  The NARFE toll free number for the Capitol Switchboard, 1-866-220-0044, allows callers to ask for any Representative or Senator by name.  When doing so, tell your Congressional delegation the following: “I ask that you urge the Congressional leadership to include the federal civilian/military Premium Conversion legislation in the stimulus package.  In the last Congress, this legislation was introduced as H.R. 1110 and S. 773.”