BREAKING: New legislation to expand Social Security

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Caring for a family member in need isn’t an option. Be it a child, a disabled family member or a senior in need of care, family is family.

Every day, caregivers across the country sacrifice their own financial wellbeing and professional goals to care for loved ones. This loss of pay, whether it is reducing one’s paid hours or leaving the formal workforce altogether, hurts now and in retirement. This is because our Social Security system doesn’t currently recognize the work of caregivers when calculating benefits over a lifetime of work.

Now, there is something that we can do about it. Recently, Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY) introduced The Social Security Caregiver Credit Act of 2014 (HR 5024). Join Social Security Works and our partners in supporting this critical piece of legislation.

Sign the petition telling Congress to pass The Social Security Caregiver Credit Act and begin recognizing the sacrifices of caregivers nationwide.

Social Security Works has been fighting to expand, not cut our earned Social Security benefits. This new bill does just that. And recent polling shows that 67% of likely voters – Democrats, Republicans and Independents – support this new piece of expansion legislation.

The establishment of a caregiver credit would bolster the economic prospects of unpaid caregivers and would provide vital retirement security to vulnerable populations, especially women and low-income families.

Stand with Social Security Works, Rep. Lowey and our partners today in calling on Congress to finally recognize the sacrifices of caregivers nationwide.

Our fight to expand earned benefits will not happen overnight. It will happen one bill at a time and one vote at a time. This bill is a huge step toward addressing economic inequalities in our workforce and in retirement security.

Thank you for all that you do.

Michael Phelan
Social Security Works

p.s., Pre-order the book that makes the case for expanding Social Security by Social Security Works' co-founders--available January 2015 from The New Press: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1620970376/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1620970376&linkCode=as2&tag=socisecuwor08-20&linkId=ZC7F56DUUW5ZTUTB

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