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Notch Bulletin: Your Vote Can Make The Difference For Notch Reform
My mother is 80 years old, born in November 1923. She has not received any information about the NOTCH. How does she sign-up? Is there a membership fee and how much? I would also like to assist you in your efforts. How and where can I help the most?� Daughter of E.V. Anybody concerned about the Notch issue, as well as their earned Social Security and Medicare benefits, may join TREA Senior Citizens League (TSCL). Unlike other senior organizations, TSCL has no age restrictions. You can make sure that you and your mother receive information about Notch Reform by simply requesting, at no charge, to be placed on our mailing list and the �Notch Victims Register�. Visit the TSCL website for more information (www.tscl.org). For a $10 membership contribution, you or your mother can become a member of TSCL. When you contribute $10 or more, you�re entitled to TSCL�s membership benefits which include this newsletter; a prescription drug discount card, Rx Savings Plus; a dental benefit; and many other money-saving resources. (For more information on how to join, click here: http://www.tscl.org/jointscl.asp.) To help the Notch Reform effort, we urge the two of you to find out if your candidates for office in the upcoming election co-sponsor Notch Reform legislation. We urge you to support those candidates who do, when you vote on November 2. TSCL can answer questions about your Representative�s co-sponsorship of such bills as Notch Reform, a more fair COLA, prescription drug importation and others we follow. Check the TSCL web site at www.tscl.org/bills.asp. If you were to click on the link to H.R.97, The Notch Fairness Act, for example, you would find a list of the Members who co-sponsor that legislation. Another convenient resource is project Vote Smart. Vote Smart is an independent, objective non-profit organization, located on the web at www.vote-smart.org. Project Vote Smart supplies information on hundreds of candidates as well as elected officials. We also strongly encourage you to discuss the Notch problem with others your age who may also be the children of aging Notch Babies and painfully familiar with their parents� increasing frailty and health care costs. Many of us are children of Notch Babies. In fact, it behooves children of Notch Babies to get involved. Congress is considering new reforms to Social Security that include an overhaul of the benefit formula similar to the one in 1977 that led to the Notch problem affecting your mother. Under a Social Security reform bill recently reviewed by the Congressional Budget Office, certain age groups -- for example, those born during the 1950�s -- could be impacted in a Notch-like manner by receiving lower benefits than other retirees. In addition, several of the proposals under consideration could particularly disadvantage women who take time off from work, including time taken to care for aging family members. Our political action now means the difference between defending the Social Security benefits that we�ve worked and paid for � as well as those of our parents � or allowing Congress and the President to give birth to a second generation of Notch Babies � the Notch Baby Boomers. Keep up the good work, encourage others to join us in defending our earned benefits � and VOTE! September 2004 | ||||||||
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