Here’s another potential budget-buster which all fellow retirees like me would love to see come to pass.

As welcome and reasonable as this may appear, its chances for passage may not be so good.  After all, for over 20 years, hundreds of thousands of retirees have been unfairly punished by the Windfall Elimination Provision, which removed funds from deserving civil servants under the misrepresentation that the benefit was a “windfall.”  [See articles appearing earlier in “The Forum” in June, 2006 and September, 2006.]

Now, the price tag for this retiree benefit is but a small fraction of the WEP; however, I’m still not holding my breath for its passage.

What about you?  Are there any federal retirees with insight into this?

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