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Message: [QUOTE="Jasper Husky, post: 4849631, member: 4364"] Teachers are important and I keep reading about teachers shortages. I am not a teacher but I have frieands that are teachers and retired teachers. I can still remember teachers that had a positive influence on my life so many years ago. Teachers area penalized by WEP, whereby teachers' SS benefits earned in jobs totally outside of teaching, are reduced, unlike just about for anybody else. Not an incentive to go into teaching. Below is from an NEA (albeit, a pro teacher source) but I believe is factually accurate (it is my understanding, the mentioned law has bi-partisan support): "The Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) reduces the Social Security benefits of people whose work history includes both jobs covered and not covered by Social Security. That would include educators in states where public employees don’t pay into Social Security who take on part-time or summer jobs to make ends meet. WEP has done financial harm to generations of retirees. Fortunately, there are members of Congress who understand that educators should keep the retirement security they earned in jobs they held outside of education. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) introduced the Public Servants Protection and Fairness Act to lessen the impacts of WEP and protect educators. If that bill becomes law, current retirees would receive an extra $150 a month and future retirees would gain an extra $75 a month, on average" [/QUOTE]

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