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NARFE Members, don’t forget that your child, grandchild or great-grandchild can apply for 2025 NARFE-FEEA Fund Scholarship Awards Program. For more information and to access the application, visit https://lnkd.in/eJu3k8AH.

NARFE Chapter 1734 next meeting will be held at the East Columbia 50+ Center, located at 6610 Cradlerock Way in Columbia, MD at 1:00 pm.

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has announced retroactive payments and a new way to apply for retirement, spouse’s, or surviving spouse’s benefits if you did not previously apply because of the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) or the Government Pension Offset (GPO) thanks to the NARFE-supported Social Security Fairness Act.

NARFE joins lawsuit to protect merit-based federal civil service.

NARFE Chapter 1734 lunch at the White Oak Tavern at 11:30 am on February 19, 2025

Howard County County Federal Workers Forum-February 4, Howard Community College Horowitz Center, 10901 Little Patuxent Pkwy, Columbia at 6:30 pm.

NARFE Federal Employees Education and Assistance Fund (FEEA) 2025-26 Scholarship Program accepting applications. Deadline March 13, 2025.

NARFE Chapter 1734 congratulates all our members who worked hard to enact the Social Security Fairness Act (Public Law 118-273) to repeal the odious Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO). Many thanks to all who supported the NARFE effort to right this egregious wrong.

NARFE Chapter 1734 will hold a program: “Preventing Identity Theft and Fraud” on January 15, 2025 at 1 PM. All are welcome!