Contact Legislators

Members and Friends of the Indiana Retired Teachers Association:

• There are several hundred retired teachers in Indiana who taught for at least twenty years and retired before 1980 who get less than $500 in their monthly pension.
• They spent their lives working for the children and youth of Indiana
• They retired before the large inflationary boom of the 1980's that saw increases in salaries.
• Without the COLAs over past years, they would have lost all the purchasing power that was originally in their pension.
• In July, the estimated total cost to give a minimum pension of $500.00 to these retired teachers was $4.8 million.
• Even though most of us will not benefit from this, we are asking this for our oldest, beloved colleagues.

We hope that you will contact your legislators to ask that the legislature put this $500.00 minimum benefit back into the 2013-2014 budget.

In writing to your legislator, please remember to be courteous. We feel strongly about this issue, but they have hundreds of constituents asking for many things, most of which involve money. A written note would be best, but you can find the e-mail address by going to the link:
http://www.in.gov/cgi-bin/legislative/contact/contact.pl.

Both Senators and Representative should be addressed as The Honorable (name).
Letters can be sent to:
The Honorable _____
The Indiana General Assembly
200 W. Washington Street,
Indianapolis, IN 46204

Thank you for helping us with this most important issue.
Nancy Tolson
Indiana Retired Teachers Association
Executive Director

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