CSEA PRE-RETIREMENT SEMINAR

It’s Never too Early to
Prepare for Retirement!

Date: Saturdayaturdayaturday, November 14, 2009
Location: Jonas E. Salk Elementary School
1411 South Gilbert Street, Anaheim 92804

Registration                            Seminar

8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.          9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

All K-12, Community College and County Office of Education CalPERS
Members and Guests are Welcome!

(Please note: Attendance at this seminar allows you to request an individual
appointment with CalPERS 90 days in advance of your retirement).

THIS FREE SEMINAR INCLUDES:
Information and booklets provided by
CalPERS, Social Security and CSEA Retiree Unit

Refreshments will be provided.
Hosted by: Magnolia 195

For more informatirmation contactntact YOUR
Pre-Retirement Resource Committee Member
Area H Representative
Kerry Woods
(714) 381-6612

DRIVING DIRECTIONS

Jonas E. Salk Elementary School

1411 South Gilbert Street

Anaheim 92804

On Gilbert St., south of Ball Rd, north of Cerritos

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Off of the 57 Freeway, go West on Ball Rd, south on Gilbert.

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Off the 91 Freeway, go south on Brookhurst, west on Ball Rd, south on  Gilbert.

Register With CalPERS

How to…….

Registration is encouraged at

https://my.calpers.ca.gov/

(Follow the instructions to set up your my/CalPERS account)

Steps to register for the location that interests you:
• Select the My education link on the left
• Choose the Select a Class link
• Click on CSEA Schools Planning Your Retirement from the list of
classes
• Select View Class Details
• Select the Enroll button next to the location you want
• Follow the onscreen instructions and submit your enrollment
• You will get a message and a separate notification that your
enrollment was accepted

Statewide Action Against Big Insurance Crimes

Statewide Action Against
Big Insurance Crimes
Tuesday, October 6th

Join us as we declare Anthem Blue Cross a crime scene!

For years, American insurance companies have been more about corporate greed than patient need. Insurance executives have lined their pockets at record rates while our health insurance premiums went up three times faster than wages and four times faster than general inflation.

It’s a crime that insurance companies

* rack up profits by denying patients treatment even when doctors recommend it,
* discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions, and
* keep premiums and out of pocket costs high so that care is unaffordable even for those who have insurance.

It’s a crime that 64% of all bankruptcies are caused by medical debt. It’s a crime that every 12 minutes someone dies because they can’t afford the escalating cost of health insurance.

Enough is enough! It’s time to hold insurance companies accountable for their crimes.

JOIN US TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6th
at Big Insurance crime scene actions across the state:

In San Francisco
11:30 AM at 1 Market Street near Embarcadero Ctr.
Contact: Patrick, promano@health-access.org or 707-853-3888

In Sacramento
12 noon at 1121 L Street
Contact: Zak, zak@sacramentolabor.org or 916-813-6658

In Los Angeles
11:00 AM at 801 S. Figueroa
Contact: Angela, awoods@health-access.org or 213-413-3587

In Santa Ana
11:30 AM at 3100 Lake Center Drive
Contact: Marisol, riveram@seiulocal1877.org

In San Diego
12 noon at 3655 Nobel Drive, # 250
Contact: Sandra, diazs@seiulocal1877.org

It’s time for Congress to take our side. We need good health care we can afford with the choice of a public health insurance option.

If the insurance companies win, we lose.

Learn more at www.sickofbluecross.com

Another Special Session on Tax Reform

On Tuesday (9/28), the Commission on the Twenty-First Century Economy released their proposals to change California’s state tax system. This Commission was created by the Governor and by the Legislature a year ago to look at ways to reform the state’s tax system.

The Commission proposed to reduce the income tax on the wealthiest Californians arguing that it would reduce the volatility of future state revenues. It also proposes to eliminate the Corporate Income tax and the Sales tax and replace them with a new Business Net Receipt Tax (BNRT).

These proposals are being heavily criticized by tax experts because it would unfairly shift the tax burden from the wealthiest Californians and corporations to working families.

Lenny Goldberg, a tax expert on California’s tax system, calls the report “a failure to provide a fair, long-term solution to California’s revenue and tax problems.” He highlights the following problem with the proposals:

* It provides disproportionate tax relief–$7.6 billion yearly– to the top 3% of income tax payers—those least burdened by state taxes.

* The new BNRT tax would unfairly burden companies with disproportionately higher labor costs; unfairly tax rental housing, childcare, food and other necessities of low income people; and encourage the contracting out of labor services, rather than hiring employees.

* The Commission failed to examine one of the dominant changes in the 21st century economy: the growth of internet usage, electronic commerce, and digital downloads, internet taxation, and interstate nexus issues which arise from growing electronic commerce.

* The Commission also failed to adequately examine alternative reforms: such as inequities in the commercial property tax, the lack of an oil severance tax, or the option for a carbon tax.

What’s Next?

The Governor has called yet a sixth Special Session of the Legislature to address these new tax proposals. We will keep you posted on the development of this special session, as well as the other special sessions on education, and possibly two more special sessions on water and prisons.