{"id":1861,"date":"2025-01-25T15:58:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T23:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2025-02-07T13:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T21:14:01","slug":"social-security-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/2025\/01\/25\/social-security-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Security Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/COLA-quarters-receipts.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/COLA-quarters-receipts.png\" alt=\"money\" width=\"600\" height=\"392\"><\/a>The NARFE Washington Federation has published a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/resources\/faq-frequently-asked-questions\/social-security-fairness-act-information\/\">web page with information and other resources about changes to Social Security<\/a> that went into effect on January 6 when H.R. 82, the Social Security Fairness Act, was signed.\u00a0 This law will cause a substantial increase for CSRS Feds and others covered by pensions.\u00a0 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/chapter0193\/meetings-events\/meetings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Everett Chapter meeting program<\/a> on February 19 will include a presentation by Mike Teefy of our Vancouver Chapter 0131. All Federation members are invited to join in person or on zoom.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/resources\/faq-frequently-asked-questions\/social-security-fairness-act-information\/\"><strong>Visit this page to access the latest updates.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE WSF has posted information on the recent Social Security benefit updates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2024\/11\/2024-10-25-R9-13_John-Hatton-NARFE-Director-of-Legislative-and-Political-Affairs-provides-a-legislative-update-and-preview-of-the-119th-Congress-at-Symposium-1-rotated.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1866,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions\/1866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/wa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}