Our goal is to save the U.S. Postal Service from drastic cuts in service. We want the postal service to cease closing mail processing plants. We want the postal service to continue 6 day delivery and we want the postal service to stop closing post offices and cutting retail operating hours. Our goal is to see the dramatic pre payments into retirement accounts to stop and be returned to the postal service. We are proud of our postal network in North Carolina and want to keep it the way it is.

Our goal is to save the U.S. Postal Service from drastic cuts in service. We want the postal service to cease closing mail processing plants. We want the postal service to continue 6 day delivery and we want the postal service to stop closing post offices and cutting retail operating hours. Our goal is to see the dramatic pre payments into retirement accounts to stop and be returned to the postal service. We are proud of our postal network in South Carolina and want to keep it the way it is.

Public workers , teachers anyone collecting a state pension having prior work in a job where social security was collected is being unfairly discriminated against by the federal government. Since 1985 when the government enacted this rule for social security receipients millions of people have had their social security payment eliminated or drastically reduced. We are asking congress to eliminate the WEP and allow those who have earned a social security benefit to collect what they have earned.

The Congress keeps abusing the funds and disrespecting the retired people that made the fund solvent. .Fi.c.a.. is a payroll tax paid in equal parts by the employee and employer for every hour worked. It is not an entitlement it's a non-negotiable earned benefit.

Let's stop wasting time on debating and legislating different CostOfLivingAdjustments for so many things. This big debate on fiddling with the Social Security COLA is a perfect example.

Welfare recipients attest under penalty of perjury that they are separate households from anyone else with whom they reside. This means that all income earned by others is excluded from determination of eligibility. Often, parents or others close to the applicant provide rent reciepts and attest to preparing food separately. Yet, many of these family members claim the welfare recipients as dependents on their income tax return, obtaining tax credits and reduced tax liabilty. Though illegal, there is no current audit program, and the welfare records are protected under privacy laws. Your representative in Congress should be alerted to the need for a task force to investigate this type of fraud and to put a program in place that will prevent its continuance. Additionally, all individual taxpayers should be granted access to welfare records when cases in which they may be implicated are brought to the attention of the taxing authorities.

The Maine legislature has denied Cost Of Living Adjustment to state retirees. COLA had been in effect for over 30 years. All of us elderly retirees have been grievously hurt by this reduction in calculated retirement while dealing with increased taxes and living expenses.

Identity theft of social security numbers is growing by leaps and bounds. I now have to prove I'm "me" because someone chose to use my social security number to file taxes with the IRS. We're told never to carry our social security cards in our wallets to protect against theft, while always having to carry our Medicare cards for proof of health insurance. Stop using social security numbers for Medicare ID numbers.

This petition will have longer hours of running trains. This is an issue because we pay more than the citizens of new york whom trains run all day and night. We need less drunk driving accidents and more freedoms to get around. Not only I but many others agree that if the cost of train fare raise we also want more out of the system.

We all know someone who depends upon Social Security benefits whether it's because they've retired or because they are disabled. We also know that in most cases, the income they receive doesn't cover all of the costs of day to day living. We must allow increases in these benefits to be based upon the most reasonable index and chained CPI is not that.

People have paid into the fund most of their lives and the monies have been spent on other things like war and now they want to take your funds away and continue the tax deduction...

The funding of Social Security can be enhanced and at the same time those who receive Social Security income can benefit. Social Security should let recipients have an advance equal to or less than one month of their Social Security income at a flat 5% fee. This should be repaid thru deductions in 10 months or less at no more than 10% of the total amount per month. The advance must be repaid in full before another can be given. No credit check is necessary and a request for the advance should be enough.