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Support Equality in Massachusetts:
Contact Your Legislators About
These Important Bills TODAY!
Week of July 21, 2008 Tell your Legislators to:
Support Gender Neutral Annuities (S2729/H901)
and
OPPOSE Gender Discrimination
in Savings Bank Life Insurance Policies (H949)
Did you know that women and men pay the same price for annuity policies in Massachusetts, but because women are presumed to live longer, they receive smaller monthly benefits than their male counterparts? Mass. NOW has been working to overcome this inequity for thirty years! That's right: for the past thirty years in Massachusetts, women's rights supporters have filed legislation to ensure that annuity policies remain gender-neutral. This is a matter of fairness for all women, but especially elderly women. Annuity policies are used for retirement income, and therefore are crucial to the survival and quality of life of elderly citizens. If elderly women are not receiving their fair share of monthly annuity benefits, this greatly impacts their ability to support themselves financially. Champions of women's equality in Massachusetts, Senate President Therese Murray and Representative Ruth B. Balser, each filed legislation on this important issue; their bills are now combined: S2729 (H901). Very recently, the Senate unanimously passed this legislation! Now its time to make sure the House does the same. Representatives need to hear from constituents that this bill must pass THIS SESSION! In addition to asking your Representative to support S2729 (H901), we're asking that you urge him or her to OPPOSE H949, which may come up for a House floor vote this week as well. H949 would undo gender-neutrality for the Savings Bank Life Insurance Company, and flies in the face of equal-rights ideology. It is a huge step backwards in the long history of trying to make insurance purchasing and benefits equal for men and women Please call your Legislator TODAY with this simple message: PASS S2729 (H901) and OPPOSE H949 - for the good of all women in the Commonwealth, especially our elderly. To contact your Legislators, go to: www.mass.gov/legis
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* * * and check out Mass. NOW's Most Recent Op-ed!
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