Many facility directors, however, have set nurses' pay adjustment below those given to GS employees. Address the Government Pension Offset Provision. The GPO law is unfair to many women, especially widows, who often lose all of the Social Security protection their husbands, had provided for them. Under current law, a Social Security widow's benefit is reduced or eliminated if the widow is eligible for a pension based on a local, state or Federal job that was not covered by Social Security. Since the law went into effect in December of 1982, GPO has affected 271,000 Federal, state and local retirees.
Spouses receiving pensions from private sector employers have no such offset.
This legislation would require agencies to track costs and savings from contracting out. I believe it is wrong to contract out the jobs of federal employees without the assurance that the work will be performed more efficiently, more effectively, and more reliably by contractors. Federal employees are not afraid of competition. As long as it is fair competition. I believe that this bill, which would impose a temporary suspension on new service contracts would give agencies the hme to correct the many problems with contracting out.