The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association (NARFE) is a nonprofit, 501(c)5 membership association dedicated to improving the benefits of active and retired federal employees, their spouses and survivors. NARFE has some 175,000 members and over 800 NARFE chapters in almost every state within the

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, as well as chapters in

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and the

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. NARFE also offers electronic chapters to members who wish to receive their information electronically. Most members of NARFE are covered under either the

Civil Service Retirement System The Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) is a public pension fund organized in 1920 that has provided retirement, disability, and survivor benefits for most civilian employees in the United States federal government. Upon the creation of a new ...

(CSRS, including CSRS Offset) or the

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(FERS) or are spouses or surviving spouses of Federal employees. Among items for which NARFE advocates include: *"extend the Premium Conversion rights that federal and postal employees have to federal annuitants", and *"Repeal the

Social Security Government Pension Offset The Government Pension Offset (GPO) is a statutory provision in United States law which affects benefits paid by the Social Security Administration The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) is an independent agency of the U.S. feder ...

(GPO) and

Windfall Elimination Provision The Windfall Elimination Provision (abbreviated WEP) is a statutory provision in United States law which affects benefits paid by the Social Security Administration under Title II of the Social Security Act. It reduces the Primary Insurance Amou ...

(WEP)." Through both of these acts, NARFE is trying to increase the pensions of retired federal workers.

NARFE legislative program

The legislative program of NARFE is made annually coming before each

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. The program is divided into three categories in order to show their importance as NARFE legislative goals. The first is to preserve the goals already reached. The second is to provide benefits to the future members of NARFE. The third includes all other goals of NARFE.

Political contributions

According to

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, in 2018 NARFE donated $850,750 to political candidates, of which 78% went to Democratic candidates and 21% to Republican candidates.

References

External links

NARFE official website
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