Stacy Huisman

House Votes 124K Out Of My Spouse’s Military Retirement

#KeepYourPromise
Senators

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Recommended Language for emails and Facebook (thanks for the help from MOAA):

Dear Senator {insert your Senator’s name}, 

We are a/an {insert service} family and your constituents.

I’m writing to ask you to reject a provision within the Bipartisan Budget Act that threatens to significantly slash retirement benefits for current and future military retirees.

The FY 2014 budget proposal includes a provision that cuts the annual Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) for uniformed service retirees by 1 percent each year until age 62.

The cuts will have a devastating and long-lasting impact. By age 62 retirees who serve a 20 year career would lose nearly 20 percent of their retired pay.

I’m asking you to reject this provision that breaks faith with current and future military retirees, and threatens long term readiness and retention in the uniformed services. 

I’ve included three recent articles, all written by military spouses, to provide you a sense of the outrage and betrayal our community is feeling:

https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/13/opinion/sanderlin-military-pensions/

/articles/house-votes-124k-out-of-my-spouses-military-retirement/

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/13/1262513/-Embrace-the-Suck

We need your help in ensuring this bill isn’t passed or the provision is taken out.  We’ve had your back for the last decade plus of war.  Especially this next week, we need you to watch ours.  A vote for this bill (as is) is a vote against military families. 

As a constituent, I am requesting you inform me of your position on this issue. 

Thank you for your support.

Sincerely, {Insert your name}  [Consider including a family picture]

Please go to the last page of this article for a list of all the Senators, their contact infomormation and Twitter handles.

Recommended Language for Twitter:

{insert Senator’s Twitter Handle} Keep faith with military families. Reject Ryan-Murray amend. that devastates mil retirement #KeepYourPromise.

Please go to the last page of this article for a list of all the Senators, their contact information and Twitter handles. 

Senators (Bolded means the Senator is up for reelection in 2014).  Let them know that your vote in 2014 depends on how they vote next week!

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Stacy Huisman: Stacy Allsbrook-Huisman is an Air Force spouse, writer, mother and advocate within the military spouse community. As a former Parent-to-Parent trainer for Military Child Education Coalition, she led workshops and seminars on many topics related to the education of military-connected students. She is the coauthor with Dr. Amanda Trimillos of Seasons of My Military Student: Practical Ideas for Parents and Teachers (Elva Resa, 2018). In her “other” life, she worked in public affairs and project management for the city of Las Vegas for 14 years. She was the Executive Director for the Las Vegas Centennial. She had a hand in baking the world largest birthday cake, hosting a 100,000 person parade, marrying 100 couples at once, organizing an amazing Red Hot Chili Peppers concert and managing 450 other events, programs and public relations celebrating her hometown birthday! She met her husband while he was stationed at Nellis AFB. She was whisked away on a crazy military spouse journey around the globe and hasn’t looked back since – only forward. Stacy is connected to many aspects of military life. She writes for one of our other Victory Media publications - GI Jobs Magazine - where she features successful transitioned Veterans in the workforce. She continues to write for myriad of websites and blogs, including a mini-think tank she co-founded called Families on the Home Front. Stacy was published in the popular book Stories Around the Table - Laughter, Wisdom, and Strength in Military Life. She is also a judge for Operation Homefront's Military Child of the Year 2015.