Stop Penalizing Americans & Legal Immigrants Who Receive Foreign Pensions. Repeal the WEP!


Stop Penalizing Americans & Legal Immigrants Who Receive Foreign Pensions. Repeal the WEP!
The Issue
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To: THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS
Action Congress Must Take: Repeal the unfair Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP)
What Congress Must Do: Pass House Bill H.R. 82 and Senate Bill S. 597
Why Congress Must Repeal the WEP: The WEP unfairly reduces the U.S. Social Security benefits of not only U.S. government workers but also of those who have worked both in the United States and another country.
Why This Is Important:
- U.S. citizens who have worked outside the U.S. naturalized U.S. citizens who have worked in their country of birth, and legal immigrants all have their monthly Social Security pension significantly reduced because they receive a foreign pension.
- For 2023, their Social Security pension can be reduced by up to $557.50 each month.
- The WEP disproportionately affects lower-income earners and a large number of these earners are foreign pension recipients whose combined income is often at or near the poverty level.
CALL TO ACTION!
Why should hard-working people be penalized simply because they earned a foreign pension?
Please sign our WEP Repeal Petitions so that Congress will see that this longstanding injustice adversely affects many and must be repealed now!

2,712
The Issue
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[PL] [ES] [DE] [IT] [FR] [PT] [SQ] [FI] [SV] [EL] [HI] [BG] [HU] [UK] [RU] [SR] [ZH]
To: THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS
Action Congress Must Take: Repeal the unfair Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP)
What Congress Must Do: Pass House Bill H.R. 82 and Senate Bill S. 597
Why Congress Must Repeal the WEP: The WEP unfairly reduces the U.S. Social Security benefits of not only U.S. government workers but also of those who have worked both in the United States and another country.
Why This Is Important:
- U.S. citizens who have worked outside the U.S. naturalized U.S. citizens who have worked in their country of birth, and legal immigrants all have their monthly Social Security pension significantly reduced because they receive a foreign pension.
- For 2023, their Social Security pension can be reduced by up to $557.50 each month.
- The WEP disproportionately affects lower-income earners and a large number of these earners are foreign pension recipients whose combined income is often at or near the poverty level.
CALL TO ACTION!
Why should hard-working people be penalized simply because they earned a foreign pension?
Please sign our WEP Repeal Petitions so that Congress will see that this longstanding injustice adversely affects many and must be repealed now!

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Petition created on March 18, 2023