{"id":1668,"date":"2024-12-22T21:32:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T05:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2025-03-27T16:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T23:34:11","slug":"thanks-to-our-cdls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/2024\/12\/22\/thanks-to-our-cdls\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to our CDLs!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gmail_default\">Congratulations and thanks to our CDLs and all NARFE members who took the time to contact their Congressional Representatives to encourage them to co-sponsor this legislation and then to actually vote for it in the waning minutes of the 118th Congress.\u00a0 Also, a moment of reflection on the thousands of CSRS retirees who died since WEP\/GPO became law in 1984 and who never received the full Social Security benefits they were due.\u00a0 Fairness finally \u2013 but not in time to benefit them. \u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/contact-ca-legislative-chair\/\">Steve Walter<\/a>, Chair \u2013 National Legislation Committee<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>(from the <strong>New York Times, 12\/21\/2024<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Senate passed bipartisan legislation early Saturday that would give full Social Security benefits to a group of public sector retirees who currently receive them at a reduced level, sending the bill to President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>The vote to clear the measure was a lopsided 76 to 20, reflecting the broad popularity of an effort to allow approximately more than 2.8 million public pension recipients \u2014 some of them teachers, firefighters and police officers \u2014 to collect Social Security benefits at the same level as other beneficiaries.<\/p>\n<p>The House passed the bill by a wide margin of 327 to 75 last month after a bipartisan group of lawmakers forced it to the floor, and President-elect Donald J. Trump recently threw his support behind it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/21\/us\/congress-social-security.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE CA Federation congratulates all the Congressional District Liaisons who worked hard to pass HR 82 to repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). Many thanks to all who supported the NARFE effort to right this egregious wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/06\/LegislativeAlert.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1674,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/1674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}