This is in response to Brian Cheney’s letter (Time to support Social Security Fairness Act, Feb. 25). I paid into Social Security for more than 15 years in my younger years.
I was a police officer for 20 years and paid into the Public Employee Retirement System and Ohio Police and Fire Retirement System. I then worked for a public school district and paid into the School Employee Retirement System for more than 20 years.
When I finally retired, Social Security used a magical formula to reduce my monthly retirement money based on the amount of money I receive from my other pensions.
I received 57.7% of what I should receive from Social Security due to this formula.
It’s almost like being penalized for working. Like Cheney noted, politicians set their own retirement benefits to the maximum, while reducing benefits to others. It’s our money; why can’t we have it?
Warren Lee Stillwagon
Russells Point
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