To: Governor Mike DeWine

Stop Social Security Offset and Windfall Penalties!

Stop Social Security Offset and Windfall Penalties!
Allow the employee's who contributed to Social Security to collect it at retirement!

Why is this important?

In Ohio if you contribute to SERS (School Employee Retirement System) you are not eligible to collect social security. Ohio considers this double dipping, because if you worked for a school system you do not contribute to social security. Which is fine but there is one problem! What about the employee’s like my mother who worked 20 years before she became a teacher’s aide? She paid money into social security but because she decided to work for the school system she is forced to forfeit the 20 years she did contribute. This is simply not right. Would you want 20 years of saving for your retirement to disappear because you took another job? Ohio is the only state to have this Law.