Legislation Report
November 2012
The 2013 cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for millions of retired and disabled Americans will be 1.7 percent. Click here to read the NARFE hotline article.
Thursday, November 15, will be NARFE’s National Call Congress Day. Beginning November 13, the post-election session of Congress will meet in the face of the “fiscal cliff,” and could take up much-delayed issues, including the postal overhaul, expiring tax provisions, Medicare reimbursements to providers, and sequestration (across-the-board cuts to Pentagon and nondefense budgets).
More information, including a detailed script, will be provided via email through the Legislative Hotline and GEMS. The Hotline is also available on a toll-free number, 877-217-8234. The toll- free number for the Capitol switchboard is 866-220-0044.
Rolene Walker
Legislation Chair
Our continuing legislative agenda focuses on enacting bills to:
Extend the Premium Conversion rights that federal and postal employees have to federal annuitants, so that retirees too can pay their Federal Employee Health Benefits premiums with pre-tax dollars and save an average of $400 each year; and,
Repeal the Social Security Government Pension Offset (GPO) and Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) — two provisions which can substantially reduce the expected retirement income of retired federal workers.
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