if enacted, would have a punishing effect on our active and retired members. • Newly retired FERS retirees would see the elimination of COLA; CSRS retirees would see a 0.5 reduction in future COLA. • Social Security supplement that bridges a FERS retiree until she/he reaches the age of 62 would be eliminated. • Future FERS retirees would go from a high-3 to a high-5 system to compute their retirement benefits. • FERS contributions from employees would be increased by 1 percentage point each
year until employee contributions equal the government’s contributions. This would take 5 to 6 years and would result in increased employee payments of about 6% over that period.
LEGISLATIVE CONFERENCE 2017 The NPMHU 2017 Biennial Legislative Conference was held at the Washington Court Hotel in Washington, DC from May 7 through May 10, 2017. Our activists heard from many speakers from the House of Representatives and from the Senate, as well as experts in the legislative field. The activists then visited approximately 158 offices in the House and Senate combined,
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Carlton Stephens Douglas Vitek Anthony Coleman Daniel St. Marie Kenneth Kressler Don Turner Nick Pruchnicki Bridget Williams Ira Edelstein Charles Hill Timothy Sullivan Irene Delgado Louis Ditore Samuel Hudson Chris Strang Suzanne Sylvia Gerald Banks Cynthia Smith Helen Cerda R Moore Dennis Joyce Linda Lewis William Best Phillip Johnson Ricardo Gonzales Frank Amato Kurt Anderson Cheryl Garrett Kofi Opantiri Roberta Wanner Don Chapman Larry Karsten William Johnson
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where these activists appealed to staffers and members to support postal reform that helps the Postal Service rather than destroying it.
WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP? Sign up as an e-activist through our website, at www.npmhu.org. You also can participate in our NPMHU Political Action Committee, which provides financial support directly to the campaigns run by Members of the House and Senate— regardless of party affiliation—if those Members support NPMHU positions on these key issues. Robert Losi Legislative and Political Director
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orrection: Please find a list of PAC contributors that were inadvertently omitted from the last issue of the Mail Handler magazine. We apologize for the omissions and thank all of you for contributing to our Political Action Committee.
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Giving Level
Idelfonso Rivera Deborah Watson Karl Salzer Michael Brown
Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor
Francis Arnold
Sponsor
Woodrow Douglas Richard Harris Alex Frazier Richard Chandler Lolita Wallace William Flynn Anthony Couture Melinda Grijalva James Morris John Catterall Michelle Draganigos Rick Frantz William Jablonski Jessie Lewis Pamela Parson Roland Phillips William Potochnik Cecil Brown Eugene Horton Richard Mason Victor Mendez Atika Muhammad Alberto Perez Tom Staniec Christine Couture Kenenth Luciani Gloria Barrios
Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor Sponsor Member Member Member Member Member Member Member Member Member Member Member
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Giving Level
Ursula Patterson Tanisha Ruth John White Felandria Jackson Ed White
Member Member Member Member Member
Lydia Cardin
Member
James Dempsey Elizabeth Dunning Deborah Gibbons Tamara Jackson Yvonne Jones James Lobo Karen Marks Tammie Miller Robert Mitchell Latonya Sheard Tommy Simmons Liberty Velasco Ponise Dorsey Joe Harms Laurie Harms
Member Member Member Member Member Member Member Member Member Member Member Member Member Member Member
Keith Sadler
Member
Faye Smith Bryon Wesley Jennifer Young David Gomez Shawn Gordon Paul Jorgensen Lakisha Parks C E Socha Joel Wolter
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