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FEEA and ALZHEIMERS

 

 FEEA

FEEA (Federal Emergency and Education Assistance) is a two component program set up by national NARFE disaster relief and to provide scholarship for NARFE members. The FEEA program is donation funded – neither chapter nor federation funds can be used to support this program

 Disaster Relief: Any member that has suffered a loss of goods or property or an injury due to a nationally declared disaster may apply for a $500 per household for grant from FEEA. Assistance fund application may be obtained by calling 1-800-338-0755 or after hours 1-800-323-4140.

 Scholarship: The scholarship program is available for any NARFE member and his/her dependents, including spouse, children, grandchildren, great grandchildren and step children.

 Information and application form for FEEA scholarship is published in the February and March issues of the NARFE magazine.

 You are encouraged to make tax free donations to FEEA. Each federation has a FEEA coordinator. The host chapter has provided a raffle for FEEA at the STATE FEDERATION CONVENTION the past couple conventions. Donations can be made through the State Federation Coordinator, or you may mail checks to FEEA 3333 S. Wadsworth Blvd. Suite 300 Lakewood, Colorado, 80227. Credit cards donations can be made calling 1-800-338-0755. Be sure to indicate NARFE Disaster or Scholarship fund.

 

ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH 

Alzheimer’s Research is a service project of NARFE, and based on an agreement between NARFE and the Alzheimer’s Foundation, funds donated by chapter and federation members are to be used for research only. None of the NARFE funds are to be used for overhead. Funding is by members only as no chapter or federation funds may be donated to Alzheimer’s NARFE.

 

NARFE fundraising total:  The 2020 goal of $14,000,000 has been met yet.

 

ALZHEIMER'S SIMI-POSTAL STAMP

This is the program under which the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Semipostal Stamp was issued in November 2017. Current regulations specify that stamps issued under this program may be sold for a period of up to 2 years and that only one discretionary semipostal stamp may be offered at any one time. On November 30, 2019, the Alzheimer’s stamp, having earned over $1 million for NIH funded dementia research, was removed from sales. Of the 500 million stamps originally printed, the Postal Service, at the urging of Congress, has retained their unsold inventory of 491.8 million Alzheimer’s stamps. 

The Postal Service to manage the program. Revisions include removing restrictions on the duration of sales of semipostal discretionary stamps and the number of discretionary semipostal stamps that may be offered at any one time. If adopted, this would allow for the reinstatement of sales of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Semipostal Stamp.

The postal service was allowed to sell the Semipostal Stamp.  You have to ask for the Alzheimer's Simipostal Stamp, which has a surcharge over the regular postal stamp price that is used to support Alzheimer's research.