Working to repeal GPO/WEP

<p><strong>Working to repeal GPO/WEP </strong>- <em>Season 3, Episode 17</em></p><em>Educators who have worked private sector jobs before or during their time as public employees – and those who are counting on survivor benefits from a spouse who worked a private sector job – are getting shortchanged. The Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision mean these educators get a fraction of the social security benefits they should. As retired teacher Judy Novak and OEA Secretary-Treasurer Mark Hill tell us, it’s time to change the law.</em><p><br></p><p><strong>SUBSCRIBE | </strong><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/education-matters/id1549004446?itsct=podcast_box&amp;itscg=30200">Click here</a> to subscribe to <em>Education Matters</em> on Apple Podcasts or <a href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL2VkdWNhdGlvbi1tYXR0ZXJz">click here </a>to subscribe on Google podcasts so you don't miss a thing. And don't forget you can listen to all of the previous episodes anytime on your favorite podcast platform, or by <a href="https://feeds.transistor.fm/education-matters">clicking here.</a><strong></strong></p><p>Featured Education Matters guest: </p><ul> <li> <strong>Judy Novak, </strong>OEA-Retired member<ul><li>Judy Novak spent most of her 36-year career as a Special Education teacher in the Mansfield City Schools. She has been substitute teaching since 2014. Novak was recently appointed to serve on NEA's GPO/WEP advisory task force. </li></ul> </li> <li> <strong>Mark Hill</strong>, OEA Secretary-Treasurer<ul><li> <strong>Mark Hill</strong>, first elected in spring 2018, is currently serving his second three-year term as OEA Secretary-Treasurer. He is a 30-year educator with Worthington City Schools, serving as a middle school math teacher. From 2010-2018, he served as president of the Worthington Education Association (WEA). In his freshman year as WEA president, he led his local in joining the successful repeal of Senate Bill 5 (SB5), an attack to