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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is fair and only moving forward...[/quote]
I’m on FERS-FRAE and already pay 4.4. I don’t see how it’s “fair.” It doesn’t affect me at all. It won’t change my pay. What do I gain from other people being made worse off?[/quote]

It is "fair" because we newer highers should not have been placed in unique strata in the first place to such an extreme. [/quote]

I’ve been a fed for 15 years and was trained/worked with the CSRS pension. They have been retiring and enjoying a pension I’ll never have.

It sucks, but that is life. Ruining their pension wouldn’t make mine better. [b]My family losing 5k year doesn’t help your situation. [/b]No one wins when fed benefits continually get watered down.[/quote]

My "family" (I am single so I am a family of one, just as important--yes) loses because I make less than you at same grade/step due to unfair 0.8/4.4 percent scheme in place now. So yes the potential change would help me financially and help my morale so will help me mentally. So yep, tangible "helps".

Is your family more important than mine? Nope. What you get, I should get, as far as I can control. [/quote]

It is so depressing that people think this way. I mean, I know there are many of you out there and that’s part of why we’re in this crisis. But it’s still depressing.[/quote]

Happy that we will receive equal pay for equal work now. That takes away my depression. So I guess things even out. Your feelings are not more important than mine.[/quote]

Well, can I get back pay to compensate for the maternity leave and student loan repayment that wasn’t available for us? Fair is fair.[/quote]

Agreed. I am nothing but happy that the new folks get PPL. That’s so much better than the hell of having to save leave for years to cover post partum time off and then coming back to 0 leave balances with a baby who inevitably is sick a minute later. I don’t understand the mentality of “I didn’t get mine so you shouldn’t get yours.” You took a job knowing what the benefits were when you signed on. I took a job knowing what my benefits were. You did not get a bait and switch. You agreed to a job all things considered.[/quote]
It’s more fundamental than that. Making other people pay more does nothing to help the people already paying a higher rate. It’s cruelty for the sake of cruelty and nothing else.

If PP has such mental anguish at the fact some people have a benefit she doesn’t, she needs a therapist. Or she can fight to extend the benefit to people like herself. But taking the benefit away from everyone just so they can be as miserable as PP is sociopathic.[/quote]

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