As I mentioned before, several states do not allow teachers to collect
SS benefits on the spouse or on benefits the teacher might have earned
in jobs which withheld SS funding. It appears that the "loophole" which
allows us to collect these funds will be eliminated. (I think it most
unfair that I won't collect on what I earned in 18 years in the business
world.)
It is time to write letters to Congress. See information
below.
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SOCIAL SECURITY "LOOPHOLE" ENDANGERED
During the week of November 18th, a last-minute proposal was considered
in the U. S.
Congress that would have effectively eliminated the last-day exemption
allowing many Texas
school employees to be eligible for spousal Social Security benefits.
The proposal came as
part of a substitute to a House bill, H.R. 4070.
The substitute language provided that an employee subject to the
Government Pension Offset
(the current law that reduces or eliminates spousal benefits for school
employees who do not
pay into Social Security) would have to work for the previous 60 months
in a position paying
into both Social Security and the government pension system (i.e., TRS)
in order to be
exempt from the offset. This would eliminate the current option that
allows employees to
work for as little as one day for a school district that pays into both
Social Security and TRS.
Visit TCTA's Web site at www.tcta.org/capital/trsss for more
information on the
Government Pension Offset.
After passing the U.S. Senate unanimously, the bill returned to the
House, but was not
considered before the House adjourned. The U.S. House and Senate will
not reconvene until
January 2003. TCTA will continue to monitor this issue and lobby on
behalf of our members.
We strongly encourage each of you to maintain contact with your
congressional
representatives to let them know that you oppose any attempt to
eliminate the current
exemption from the Government Pension Offset, and support passage of
the Social Security
Fairness Act.
--
Mary Croix Ludwick ludwick@swbell.net (home)
Ludwickm@lisd.net (school) Librarian, Owen Elementary, The Colony,
Tx.
Lewisville ISD (near Dallas) K-5
"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that
in the process he does not become a monster."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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