Vote AGAINST changes to FERS

To: Sen. Van Hollen, Rep. Harris, Sen. Alsobrooks

From: A constituent in White Hall, MD

May 7

The proposed changes to federal employee retirement benefits represent a significant cost shift to workers. Requiring higher contributions from the majority of the FERS workforce while reducing the value of future annuity payments amounts to a de facto pay cut. Federal employees accepted these terms of employment with the understanding that their compensation package, including retirement benefits, would remain intact. Implementing these changes violates that agreement without providing meaningful savings to justify it. I urge you to reconsider this approach, which unfairly burdens a workforce that has already endured years of pay freezes and cuts to their compensation. Instead, explore reforms that don't unilaterally diminish promised benefits employees counted on when entering federal service.

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