<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:18pt"><div><span>FYI</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 18pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> "Alex Lawson, Social Security Works" <info@socialsecurity-works.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> pagesincolor@yahoo.com <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, July 24, 2013 6:47 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Increasing Social Security Benefits<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv7250577916">
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<div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Dear John,</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:medium;">It’s time to go on the offensive. While many in Washington are talking about cutting Social Security benefits, there are two Senators who are taking steps to increase benefits for Seniors.</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Senators Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Mark Begich (D-AK) have proposed legislation that would:</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Increase cost of living adjustments (COLAs), not decrease them. Instead of cutting benefits through a Chained CPI formula, Senators Harkin and Begich have proposed using a benefit formula designed specifically to take into account seniors’ rising living expenses such as healthcare, food, and housing.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Ensure that the wealthy are paying their fair share into Social Security. Currently, Americans are only paying Social Security payroll taxes on their first $113,700. That means that Wall Street CEOs could be pay a far lower share of their earnings than most. By lifting the payroll tax cap on Social Security, we can extend the life of Social Security for at least the next 75 years.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Increase Social Security benefits for all recipients by approximately $70 per month, or $800 a year. Senator Harkin’s bill would reform the benefit formula for all beneficiaries, but target those most in need. This would result in an across the board benefit increase, with the most going to those in the lower and middle classes.</span></span></li>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;">We know the right-wing’s game plan is to try to force cuts to Social Security and Medicare as concessions in upcoming budget fights. It is time for us to stop playing defense and go on offense, and the Harkin and Begich bills are our chance.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Social Security is the most successful anti-poverty program in our country’s history and has never contributed a single penny to the deficit. Let’s strengthen, not cut Social Security!</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:medium;"><b><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0Eum%2F2cUO6LzWttC6Eml4v4EFo29gOOQ"><span style="font-family:Arial;">Please, join Social Security Works and our friends at Democracy for America in calling on the U.S. Senate to support the Harkin and Begich bills.</span></a></b></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:medium;">Thank you for all that you do,</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Alex Lawson<br>
Social Security Works</span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:medium;">P.S. It is critical that we stop playing defense and go on the offense. </span></span><b><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=43nImD3nF3Sca0A4Fjme9v4EFo29gOOQ"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Please join Social Security Works and Democracy for America in calling on the U.S. Senate to strengthen Social Security today.</span></span></a></b></div>
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