{"id":354,"date":"2025-11-26T16:46:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T22:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/?p=354"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T22:46:51","slug":"narfe-equal-cola-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/2025\/11\/26\/narfe-equal-cola-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Alert: Support the Equal COLA Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a class=\"Hyperlink SCXW32883410 BCX8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.votervoice.net\/NARFE\/campaigns\/120299\/respond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span class=\"TextRun Underlined SCXW32883410 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW32883410 BCX8\" data-ccp-charstyle=\"Hyperlink\">Send a message<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/strong><span class=\"TextRun SCXW32883410 BCX8\" lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW32883410 BCX8\">\u00a0to your lawmakers urging them to cosponsor H.R. 491\/ S. 624, the Equal COLA Act, to provide full COLAs to Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) retirees, ensuring that the value of their retirement annuities is preserved. With another year of a\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun ContextualSpellingAndGrammarErrorV2Themed SCXW32883410 BCX8\">diet<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW32883410 BCX8\">\u00a0COLA for FERS retirees \u2013 2% instead of the 2.8% for the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and Social Security,\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW32883410 BCX8\">it\u2019s<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW32883410 BCX8\">\u00a0past time to end this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/blog\/2025\/11\/18\/action-alert-support-the-equal-cola-act-the-government-is-open-congress-is-back-and-equality-is-still-here-2\/?_zs=EiUfm&amp;_zl=h7Va3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>unfairness<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Send a message to your lawmakers urging them to cosponsor H.R. 491\/ S. 624, the Equal COLA Act, to provide full COLAs to Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) retirees, ensuring that the value of their retirement annuities is preserved. With another year of a diet COLA for FERS retirees \u2013 2% instead of the 2.8% for the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and Social Security, it\u2019s past time to end this unfairness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/146\/2025\/11\/COLA-quarters-receipts.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}