{"id":410,"date":"2024-12-31T19:36:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T03:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/?p=410"},"modified":"2024-12-31T19:38:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T03:38:28","slug":"the-social-security-fairness-act-h-r-82-s-597-wep-gpo-repeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/2024\/12\/31\/the-social-security-fairness-act-h-r-82-s-597-wep-gpo-repeal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Social Security Fairness Act, H.R. 82\/ S. 597: WEP-GPO Repeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With just days before Congress adjourns, questions may arise about how much time President Joe Biden has to sign, or possibly veto, bills sitting on his desk. The following Article on the Federal News Network by Drew Friedman, December 30, addresses the answer to the question.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2024\/12\/2024-12-31-Time-president-get-to-sign-a-bill-into-law.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>How much time does a president get to sign a bill into law?<\/strong><\/a><br>\n***************************<\/p>\n<p>How will the Social Security Fairness Act be Implemented?\u00a0 The FEDweek Staff with NARFE Staff have created an article to provide some information toward this process. Further information will be posted here as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2024\/12\/2024-12-28-GPO-WEP-repeal-implemention.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Social Security Fairness Act Implementation<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h5>******************<\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>The Social Security Fairness Act has been passed by the Senate and is headed for the President\u2019s Desk for signature!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-782 size-large img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region07\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2024\/12\/24-12-21-SS-Fairness-Act-Signed-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\"><\/p>\n<p>***********************************<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>NARFE President William Shackelford statement from the NARFE Newsline:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe witnessed history tonight! We watched anxiously as the U.S. House of Representatives voted on the <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Social Security Fairness Act, H.R. 82,<\/span> and, to our delight, saw a supermajority vote of 327-25 <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">passage in favor to send it to the Senate,<\/span> where we urge Majority Leader Schumer to bring the bill to the floor for an up-or-down vote!<\/p>\n<p>In NARFE\u2019s entire history, we have not made it this far in our concerted effort to repeal the harmful Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset. We wholeheartedly applaud the representatives who have supported this bill. With more than 60 sitting senators sponsoring or cosponsoring the bill, there should be adequate support to overcome a filibuster.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Security Fairness Act, H.R. 82 Passage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/137\/2024\/12\/News-3-150x150-1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region09\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}