¡Gracias por su esfuerzo en impulsar la reforma de WEP!

TRTA members, thank you for your outpouring of support in pushing for action on the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP)!

The Texas Retired Teachers Association (TRTA), Association of Professional Educators (ATPE), and Mass Retirees held a successful press conference on Wednesday, December 14 in Washington, D.C. at the U.S. Capitol. Thank you to all the members who came out to support us and those who watched online!

Watch the press conference here.
Spectrum News provided an update here.
And Roll Call provided an update here.

TRTA and our friends at ATPE and Mass Retirees are all working for a deal on WEP that can pass and become law during this Congress. Such a deal could pave the way for more action on the Government Pension Offset (GPO) in the future.
It’s in the hands of the congressional members and we must continue our momentum and send our message to fix the WEP now!

Congressman Richard Neal, Chairman of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, has committed to working with his colleagues on a real solution for WEP this Congress. The alternative he laid out was potentially advancing HR 82, a bill that TRTA supports in principle, but that does not have the votes needed in the Senate to pass and help retirees now.

It would be unfortunate to have a purely symbolic vote on full repeal in the House that cannot pass the Senate. Such an outcome would ring hollow to the 2 million people currently impacted by the WEP. We NEED real bipartisan solutions that can pass both the U.S. House and Senate and help us build better answers moving forward! Symbolic victories do not put dollars in retirees’ pockets.

Congress has only a few days next week to finalize their work. We continue to call on them to fulfill their promises to help end the harmful and arbitrary WEP and take action to help retired educators, school employees, and all public workers impacted by the WEP and GPO.
TRTA will work with congressional members until the end of this session to try and achieve victory. We will report the final outcome on this issue once we know what it is.

Some of our members have asked us about a cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in Texas. We are working on that issue, and it is our top legislative priority going into the 88^th Legislative Session that begins January 10, 2023.

Please Keep Up the Momentum!

TRTA members, thank you for the outpouring of support and action over the past two weeks as you’ve made phone calls and sent emails to congressional leaders across the country. Please, help us maintain this much-needed momentum! If you have not yet had the chance to make a phone call, please use the helpful prompts below and call these leaders and your congressman today!

TRTA members, thank you for the outpouring of support and action over the past two weeks as you’ve made phone calls and sent emails to congressional leaders across the country. Please, help us maintain this much-needed momentum! If you have not yet had the chance to make a phone call, please use the helpful prompts below and call these leaders and your congressman today!

Congressman Richard Neal
Phone: Phone: (202) 225-5601
Message: The time is now to commit to passing a WEP solution before Congress adjourns this year! As Chairman of Ways and Means, you are critical for getting a bipartisan deal done.

Congressman Kevin McCarthy
Phone: (202) 225-2915
Message: The Windfall Elimination Provision negatively affects more than 2 million Americans, many of them are in California. We are asking you to use your influence as Republican leader of the soon-to-be majority party to pass a bipartisan WEP deal in this Congress.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Phone: (202) 225-4965
Message: As the House Speaker and supporter of public employee retirees, we ask for your leadership to help pass a bipartisan deal on WEP this Congress.

Have You Called Your Congressman?

If you have not yet had a chance to contact your U.S. Representative, please also give them a call today! If you are not sure who your U.S. Representative is, you may use this feature online to find out.

Message: Inflation is having devastating consequences on Texas retired educators. We believe a bipartisan Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) solution is possible! Please call Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal and tell him the time to commit to passing a WEP solution before Congress adjourns this year is NOW! Please call and ask speaker Pelosi and leader McCarthy to add WEP to an end of the year package!