Eileen Rice

First Congress passes the windfall elimination provision and so my teacher’s pension is so good I fall under this program. Middletown never paid into Soc. Sec. So even though I qualify I get $0. Blue cross/Blue Shield was quasi-government & I got a special rate for health insurance. But then that was gone. I was promised a COLA but that is also gone. Yes, I still work in the public schools as a retiree (half-time is what I am allowed)- the oldest teacher in my system wherein I don’t get paid for my former teaching experience, so I’m treated as a new teacher with a low salary. I’ve been screwed money wise so many times it’s hard to keep track. You could make it right but…my own Union which I now belong to, works against me. And this is a Democratic state. I vote here and I will remember.

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