Fellow Oak Ridge Retiree:

The Coalition of Oak Ridge Retired Employees (CORRE) needs your help. Our mission is to protect, preserve and enhance the retirement benefits of the retirees of the three Oak Ridge plants.

As you know inflation has grown to the highest rate in 40 years. As a result, we (CORRE) recently prepared and delivered a package of information and data to support legislative corrective action concerning needed improvement of our pension and health care benefits for all our retirees. This package was sent to several of our Congressional Representatives.

We are asking you to please prepare and send an email or letter to each of our U.S. Congressional members. In your request for their support for adjustments to our retiree benefits please feel free to use the attached form letter or prepare one in your own words expressing how inflation has impacted your finances and quality of life in retirement.

Please mail these letters to the addresses shown below for your Congressional members.

Thank you for your help in this very important matter.

Dave Whitehead, CORRE Board of Directors President

Congressional Representative Addresses:

The Honorable Marsha Blackburn
357 Dirksen Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, D. C. 20510
https://www.marshablackburn.senate

The Honorable Bill Hagerty
248 Russell Senate Bldg.
Washington, D. C. 20510
https://www.hagerty.senate

Representative Tim Burchett
1122 Longworth House Office Bldg.
Washington, D. C. 20510
https://burchett.house.gov

Representative Chuck Fleischmann
2187 Rayburn House Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20510
https://fleischmann.house.gov

Template/Form Letter

Dear (Congressional Representative),

Our Coalition of Oak Ridge Retired Employees (CORRE) board of directors recently submitted a request for legislative corrective action concerning needed improvements to our pension and health care benefits for retired Oak Ridge nuclear workers. There are about 15,000 former Department of Energy (DOE) retirees and spouses, most of which live in Tennessee and are your constituents.

Our retirement and health benefits have eroded significantly over the past several years due to ever increasing inflation. No cost-of-living adjustments have been made since 1998 for those who worked for many years for the DOE as contractor employees at the Oak Ridge nuclear complex. The cost of living has nearly doubled since then!

(Add anything you wish regarding how inflation has affected you personally here)

It is my request that you please be a champion and sponsor for this legislative corrective action request from our retiree organization (CORRE), which represents your Oak Ridge nuclear worker constituents. This legislation, if passed, will honor those who have worked for the DOE as contractors for so many years and made sacrifices for the country we have served.

Thank you so much for your support on this issue and for your service to our country and our state.

Retiree signature and address