This has been affecting me for 11 years. I'm retired CSRS, 33 years and surviving ex-wife of retired E-7 and i have worked enough so that i also have my 40 qtrs of SS. Truthfully i did not think this would ever come to pass so I thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping get this passed!
@donnahacker16993 күн бұрын
Thank you! I was a Texas teacher and Texas Licensed Paramedic. I retired in 2005 and have prayed for years for this to happen. I felt like I was being punished for serving my community. I have met all requirements for receiving full SS benefits.
@edwardallen91913 күн бұрын
A four decade wrong has been corrected. Thank you and all involved in fighting to fix the issue.
@SandraBarber-i6w3 күн бұрын
Thank you for all the time and effort it took to finally allow us to reach this point. Tim, we appreciate you for being TRTA's voice and never wavering. Thank you to all of the legislators who supported the passing of the bill.
@lisah29813 күн бұрын
Thank you for being our voice and not giving up! I could not be more grateful and relieved that the WEP and GPO will no longer hurt me or all of my retired teacher friends! And the young man, Eliseo Jimenez, whom President Biden brought up front to honor for walking 1500 miles to DC to support the Social Security Fairness Act, should give all of us a renewed hope in many of our young people! Thank you also to all of the lawmakers who weren’t afraid to work across the aisle to do what is right!
@tomjennings90603 күн бұрын
Thank you Tim Lee and Congressman Gooden! The WEP has affected me for the past 20 years and now, I can benefit from my monies I contributed to SS! I just wish Congress would give back all the monies they took from SS for their pork barrel projects and special projects. Our monies are not an entitlement deemed by Congress but is our money we were forced to contribute. But, this is a step forward!
@krisgraham29703 күн бұрын
I agree with you!
@lynnhotchkiss69323 күн бұрын
I've been talking about this need since 1995! I'm incredulous that it's finally happened. Thank you, Tim Lee, for all your work!
@robertaburdette17923 күн бұрын
This made me 😢. The last two to three years have been hard because my benefits were not keeping up with inflation. The one place I could cut back was food. I learned to be good friends with dry beans and brown rice. THANK YOU TIM AND LANCE.
@lisalister80023 күн бұрын
Inflation has caused me to cut back on good food too. So glad this happened. So appreciate what they have done!
@carollewis39123 күн бұрын
I'm 63. I thought I would probably get my social security when I turned 62 but I haven't yet. Each year when I get a social security update it is mentioned that I have retirement from other sources than social security. The WEP and GPO are mentioned and I always wonder how much it would affect my money. I'm so glad this has been repealed. Thanks to everyone who made it happen.😊❤
@LeonaJones-x1f3 күн бұрын
Thank you so much for all of your hard work, dedication, and perseverance on this issue. I can't believe the final push went so quickly and there are so many grateful retirees giving a heavy sigh of relief. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
@michaelshirley99283 күн бұрын
Thank-you for your hard work in getting this passed..Question? When will the dollars start to roll out to the pensioners?
@josephrogers53373 күн бұрын
I am retired military from 1960-80, worked csrs 1981-2003, and am effected by wep, for me SS is not my main retirement source so just a small percentage of retirement, widowed and my wife was a retired teacher. I did knew of any survivor benefit and I would be effective by GPO. My sister is a retired Texas Teacher from Amarillo and opted to pay SS and teacher retirement and paid self employed SS after retirement. It will change her from not able to live on retirements to livable retirement. She blessed your support of this bill. congrats.
@margaret08472 күн бұрын
I am from Ohio. Represented by Congressman Jim Jordan and Senator,now VP JD Vance, There was a loophole in the WEP&GOP, Was working in law enforcement, with State Government at age 66 1/2,and widowed,you can collect your deceased husband's social security full benefits,which is what I did. Continued to collect until retirement age of 68. I lost every penny of my social security benefits that was in 2014. So Social Security has already a running record of my account. Recently in December,2024 I visited the SS office to see if they needed anything more from me,they told me no was all set up and ready to go but would have to calculate the 12 years I lost. So hopefully what they do have will be helpful. I was also prior married for 16 years to a man,who is still living and made more money then deceased husband. It will be interesting! Thank you for Everything you have done and certainly appreciate it.
@mwcar4162 күн бұрын
You used the correct phrase (WOW) I have missed 20 years of benefits that has been corrected. Thank you all.
@lynnhotchkiss69323 күн бұрын
Eliseo Jimenez from Lubbock is the young man who walked to D.C. What a young man!
@debbiecooper31253 күн бұрын
Senator Collins has been a great fighter and introduced this over and over and your explanation of what got this rolling into actual action was great!
@susieq34563 күн бұрын
Thank you!
@shondahogan14873 күн бұрын
Thank you so very much for all your hard work .
@brunildaramos68513 күн бұрын
Thank you for your help.
@KevinMorosinКүн бұрын
Thank you to all involved in the passing
@soniasshoeboxesocc-ninodel39873 күн бұрын
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻So very gratefu! A heartfelt THANK YOU!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@krisgraham29703 күн бұрын
I'm tired of people crawling to politicians begging for something that should have been theirs years and years and years ago. There always seems to be plenty of U.S. taxpayer dollars to go to Ukraine and Israel but never enough money to retroactively pay back the Social Security money that's due to retired teachers, firefighters, and cops. It's really funny (NOT) the way that works.
@mariezinna87242 күн бұрын
Massachusetts as well but thanks for irking together
@pdungy74393 күн бұрын
Congratulations to all who worked to pass H. B. 82, the Social Security Fairness Act.
@krisgraham29703 күн бұрын
Since my husband retired in 2002 from his position in the school system where he was employed for 35 years, will he be paid back for all of the SS benefits he earned when he was employed in the private sector before and after his education position? We've had 22 years to wait for ALL his SS benefits. We get a pittance now. The amount is a joke.
@cathystaerkel18333 күн бұрын
I thank the Republicans who stepped up to make this happen. I'm a Democrat now. Have been since before Trump took office the 1st time. At 73, I never thought any of the politicians would have the guts to do the right thing. So happy but I know that somehow they will find a way to hurt us again. Sorry to be a Debbie Downer.
@PatriciaKay-j5d3 күн бұрын
Thank you for righting a wrong.
@Grammy522 күн бұрын
I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see the updated monthly payments being made before we see the back payment.
@bonnielofton3733Күн бұрын
What about railroad employees? Spouse worked and earned regular Social Security for 14 years; then was employed by the Railroad. He gets RRSS, but not at the amount he should have received for all the money taken out of his check for 27 years in the railroad so I am assuming that his earlier Social Security was not factored in. How do we find out?
@dhat3703 күн бұрын
How would we know that something doesn’t look quite right?
@dy59912 күн бұрын
Thank you for all your efforts. If my husband passed in 2007, will I now be eligible for his SS? I only received a $255 death payment.
@angelakerridge3 күн бұрын
Should the FICA cap be removed to save reductions in 2033?
@yvonneporcupine58973 күн бұрын
What is going to be done to keep something like this happening again
@cathystaerkel18333 күн бұрын
I'm thinking the same.
@timnichols37953 күн бұрын
1) How is it fair that a teacher who didn't pay into Social Security for most, or even all of their lives, will now be eligible to receive a survivor's benefit that an identical teacher who paid Social Security taxes on all of their wages would be ineligible to receive? 2) Now that the Social Security Fairness Act has passed, do all of the educational institutions in Texas that opted out of Social Security now plan to start paying Social Security taxes on their wages? 3) If the answer to Question #2 is No, why do these entities think it is appropriate that they receive more actuarially generous benefits than those who paid into Social Security for their entire careers, while still continuing to opt out of Social Security? Please do not attempt to answer these questions if you are a member of the cult, or if you just don't understand how Social Security benefits are calculated.
@SandfordSmythe3 күн бұрын
They paid into SS in a different job . This is the idea here
@denabaros32443 күн бұрын
I began teaching in Texas at age 30. Before I had worked and paid into Social Security. I EARNED my quarters. I will be retiring from teaching in May with plans to work, not in education, but at a position that pays into Social Security. I DESERVE my complete social security benefit too!!!
@cag19549Күн бұрын
To answer question number 1: teachers that never paid into social security don't get benefits. Many teachers, like me worked other jobs (I worked in corporate oil and gas) besides teaching and paid social security. Before the WEP you would get whatever your teacher pension benefits were and whatever the SS formula was for what you paid in. After the WEP, your social security amount you were supposed to get from your social security job was reduced by the number of years you worked as a teacher. I got cut 60%.
@cag19549Күн бұрын
For question 2: many school districts have started paying into social security. But even if you work at one that doesn't if you work at that school all your life you won't get any social security at all, UNLESS you work other jobs where you pay into the system. If we were still under the WEP, the social security amount you get would be reduced EVEN FURTHER by the number of years of working in the school system. I think you're under the mistaken impression that a teacher who never pays social security gets benefits, which is not true. Most teachers I know, like me have worked in the education system as well as being in another line of work, as well as working a second job and then upon retirement found out that we got screwed over by having our social security THAT WE PAID IN, reduced further by some weird formula called the WEP based on the number of years we taught school.
@cag19549Күн бұрын
Number 3, IF YOU WORK IN A JOB WHERE YOU DON'T PAY SOCIAL SECURITY AND NEVER WORKED IN ANY JOB WHERE YOU PAID IN, YOU WON'T GET BENEFITS. I honestly don't know where you got this idea. I DO know how social security works but apparently you don't. I've never been in any cult, are you?
@SBarm-l1s3 күн бұрын
Congratulations on giving pensioners a benefit that only poor people were entitled to. Now work on the shortfall facing the rest of us that paid 6.2% from our paychecks our whole lives and receive a much smaller percentage than these freeloaders. The system is set to run out of money even sooner without some permanent long term fix. Great work on a special interest entitlement benefit! I expect nothing less from congress.
@lynnm.92433 күн бұрын
Only poor people are entitled to a Social Security benefit that they paid for out of their earnings? Who knew? SMH. I have paid into Social Security for 18 years and counting. If you paid into SS longer than I did your SS payment will reflect that time and will be larger than my payment. WEP was unfair from the second that Reagan started it. The system was running out of money in spite of WEP. Fix Social Security without harming those of us who earned a civil service pension.
@SBarm-l1s3 күн бұрын
@ The percentage of return on the amount that was partially paid in is now comparable to that given to low income earners with this new bill. The people that paid all their lives get a lessor percentage. It's not too late to pay your share. Maybe 6.2% a month can be deducted from your pensions for the remainder of your lives. As the amount you pay increases, the percentage received can decrease until you're all paid up at 30 years credit. That would be a fairness act.
@robinharris12242 күн бұрын
Ask Dr Weir why he assumes that folks who have paid 40 quarters + into SS only earned within the first band??? He makes that assumption and is wrong. My highest paying quarters were in the fifth band and I am dinged by WEP. It was unfair. The bill corrects a wrong. There probably was a better way to address the original problem and perhaps a better way to correct it-without unfairly penalizing the 3% of folks w public pensions adversely affected.