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Email using the Lobbyline Action Form now to contact the key decision-makers to urge them to secure retirement earnings credits for at-home mothers.

We seek earnings credit reform that would impute to caregivers $16,500 annual income for up to five years for unpaid part time and full time labor in the home caring for family members. This means that $16,500 rather than $0 is averaged into the AIME, Average Indexed Monthly Earnings, at retirement. The AIME is used to determine benefit levels. In this manner, the proposal would ensure a higher benefit level for caregivers who would otherwise face drastic reductions in benefits. Earnings credit reform would raise the retirement benefit level of at least 8 million citizens – primarily mothers, by an average of $600 per year. Please read our background page for more about Social Security credits for primary caregivers.

Let Congress Know! Please use our easy Mail Congress Form to tell Representative Carson, Senator Snowe, and/or Senator Jay Rockefeller to secure retirement earnings credits for at-home mothers. It is easy! Please fill in your contact information, select the Senator or Representative of your choice in the drop down box, and click send to mail the message to Congress. Please also contact Representative Johnson by calling her at 202-225-4476. To tell YOUR REPRESENTATIVE and SENATOR: Create an email using your own email program, copy and paste into your email the text of the Mail Congress Form below, and locate Your Representative and Senator, and send the message to Congress.

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Dear Congressman, I am writing to ask you to support legislation to give mothers security at retirement by giving all mothers Social Security earnings credit of $16,500 per year for up to five years for time spent at home raising children. I am concerned that mothers who work in the home are spending time at home raising children, and are not accumulating Social Security earnings credits during this time. I speak from experience as an at-home mother. At-home mothers do work, although it is in the home. However, the work of an at-home mom ensures the future of this country. Please support legislation that recognizes the contribution that at-home mothers make. SecureMom.com is a group of on-line mothers supporting such legislation. It is our work that makes this nation what it is and will ensure its strength in the coming years. To read more about this issue, please contact Melodywebb@lobbyline.com. Thank You.

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