UPMA Chapter Presidents, UPMA National Executive Board

Re: Special Exemption- to deliver mail                                                                7/24/2024

HRSSC has cut PS-Form 50s effective 12/31/2022, making all Exempt Postmasters 18-22 and all Exempt
Exempt Station Managers Special-Exempt with a reason code allowing them to be eligible for “additional
pay when delivering mail.”

After a long struggle by UPMA, a temporary modification to Postal pay policy will allow select exempt
non-bargaining employees to be eligible for additional pay when those employees are needed to deliver
mail due to staffing shortages. Based on a UPMA request and conversations at the St. Louis UPMA
National Convention, the Service has decided to temporarily modify policy and allow employees
permanently assigned to the following positions to be eligible for additional pay at the straight-time rate
if authorized to deliver mail.

The policy will provide extra compensation for the time a Manager or Postmaster delivers mail, provided
the total work hours are more than 8.5 on a scheduled day or any hours on a non-scheduled day. This
temporary pay policy is applicable only in those circumstances. Management must meet all contractual
requirements before authorizing non-bargaining employees to deliver mail.

This temporary policy commenced on December 31, 2022, and is now set to end on October 18, 2024.
UPMA is hopeful this will continue to stay in place until such time as the staffing shortage is rectified.
UPMA appreciates this change and looks forward to further discussions with The Service on this and
other issues facing our members. This is another example of what can get done when we work together.
Please share this with your Area/District Managers as you need to; no further announcement will come
from the Service.

Together We Can

LEGISLATIVE NEWS UPDATE: from Dave Cook

A new Social Security bill has been introduced in House, H.R. 7084, You Earned It, You Keep It Act-Sponsor Craig D-MN, Cosponsors 7-D, Bill would eliminate all Federal taxes on Social Security Benefits

More info go to: www.House.gov

LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: from Dave Cook

WEP/GPO FIELD HEARING: FROM Dave Cook, UPMAR Legislative Chairman

Social Security Subcommittee Field Hearing on Social Security’s Disservice to Public Servants: How the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset Mistreat Government Workers. The Hearing is on November 20, 2023 at 2:00 PM (Central Standard Time) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. 

HERE IS WHAT WE ARE WATCHING:      Dave Cook, UPMAR Legislative Chair

WEP/GPO Update- Dave Cook, UPMAR Legislative Chairman

H.R. 82 Social Security Fairness Act has 300 Cosponsors- 201(D) 99(R)

S. 597 Social security Fairness Act has 49 Cosponsors- 39(D) 7 (R) 3

Other bills to watch regarding WEP/GPO are:

H.R. 4260 Public Servants Protection and Fairness Act has 102 Cosponsors 102(D)

H.R. 4583 Social Security 2100 Act has 179 Cosponsors 179(D)

S-2780 Social Security 2100 Act has 4 Cosponsors 4(D)

                                                                                                                          November 16, 2023