On Sunday, January 5th, the Social Security Fairness Act was signed into law, putting an end to the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO) and restoring long-denied Social Security benefits to millions of peace officers, teachers, firefighters, and public servants across the United States.
“For decades, PORAC has championed the fight to repeal WEP and GPO, which have unfairly penalized public servants by depriving them of their earned Social Security benefits. I am deeply grateful to the bill’s sponsors, our bipartisan coalition of advocates, and all the PORAC leaders before me who made this momentous achievement possible. This new law will make a meaningful and tangible difference for the peace officers across the nation who will now receive the benefits they’ve earned, creating financial stability in retirement for those who spent their careers putting the safety of others above their own.”
Brian R. Marvel, President of PORAC
The Social Security Fairness Act, co-led by Representatives Garrett Graves (R-LA) and Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), along with Senators Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Susan Collins (R-ME), garnered broad bipartisan support, with 330 cosponsors in the House and 62 in the Senate. After its decisive passage through Congress, the President’s signature marks the culmination of decades of tireless advocacy.
Thank you to the following Members of Congress, including the many from the State of California, for your support in passing this historic legislation:
Senate
- Baldwin (D-WI)
- Bennet (D-CO)
- Blackburn (R-TN)
- Blumenthal (D-CT)
- Booker (D-NJ)
- Boozman (R-AR)
- Braun (R-IN)
- Brown (D-OH)
- Cantwell (D-WA)
- Capito (R-WV)
- Cardin (D-MD)
- Carper (D-DE)
- Casey (D-PA)
- Cassidy (R-LA)
- Collins (R-ME)
- Coons (D-DE)
- Cornyn (R-TX)
- Cortez Masto (D-NV)
- Cotton (R-AR)
- Cramer (R-ND)
- Duckworth (D-IL)
- Durbin (D-IL)
- Fetterman (D-PA)
- Fischer (R-NE)
- Gillibrand (D-NY)
- Graham (R-SC) Hagerty (R-TN)
- Hassan (D-NH)
- Hawley (R-MO)
- Heinrich (D-NM)
- Hickenlooper (D-CO)
- Hirono (D-HI)
- Hoeven (R-ND)
- Hyde-Smith (R-MS)
- Kaine (D-VA)
- Kelly (D-AZ)
- Kennedy (R-LA)
- Kim (D-NJ)
- King (I-ME)
- Klobuchar (D-MN)
- Lankford (R-OK)
- Lujan (D-NM)
- Markey (D-MA)
- Marshall (R-KS)
- Merkley (D-OR)
- Moran (R-KS)
- Mullin (R-OK)
- Murkowski (R-AK)
- Murphy (D-CT)
- Murray (D-WA)
- Ossoff (D-GA)
- Padilla (D-CA) Peters (D-MI)
- Reed (D-RI)
- Ricketts (R-NE)
- Risch (R-ID)
- Rosen (D-NV)
- Sanders (I-VT)
- Schatz (D-HI)
- Schmitt (R-MO)
- Schumer (D-NY)
- Scott (R-FL)
- Scott (R-SC)
- Shaheen (D-NH)
- Sinema (I-AZ)
- Smith (D-MN)
- Stabenow (D-MI)
- Sullivan (R-AK)
- Tester (D-MT)
- Van Hollen (D-MD)
- Warner (D-VA)
- Warnock (D-GA)
- Warren (D-MA)
- Welch (D-VT)
- Whitehouse (D-RI)
- Wyden (D-OR)
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- Adams (D-NC)
- Aderholt (R-AL)
- Aguilar (D-CA)
- Alford (R-MO)
- Allred (D-TX)
- Amo (D-RI)
- Amodei (R-NV)
- Auchincloss (D-MA)
- Babin (R-TX)
- Bacon (R-NE)
- Balderson (R-OH)
- Balint (D-VT)
- Banks (R-IN)
- Barr (R-KY)
- Barragán (D-CA)
- Beatty (D-OH)
- Bera (D-CA)
- Bergman (R-MI)
- Beyer (D-VA)
- Bice (R-OK)
- Bilirakis (R-FL)
- Bishop (D-GA)
- Blumenauer (D-OR)
- Blunt Rochester (D-DE)
- Boebert (R-CO)
- Bonamici (D-OR)
- Bost (R-IL)
- Boyle (D-PA)
- Brown (D-OH)
- Brownley (D-CA)
- Budzinski (D-IL)
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- Bush (D-MO)
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- Carl (R-AL)
- Carson (D-IN)
- Carter (D-LA)
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