Welcome to the North Carolina Federation of Chapters of NARFE Web Site.

The Federation welcomes you to our web site and hopes that you will find it useful and interesting. While it was designed to provide services to our membership, it contains a public library and forms active, retired and annuitants of the U. S. Government that may be of value. We also have great services officers in each chapter and at the Federation level to serve you.

Our purpose is to serve our membership by advocating for programs that improve the health and benefits of our members. We do this by actively tracking legislation at the National and State level. Over the years we have been successful in maintaining Cost-of-Living increments, securing a federal Long Term Care program, and in North Carolina to secure equal treatment in taxation by way of the Bailey-Patton Lawsuit. Currently, we have national initiatives to changes three federal laws that severely impact some of our members: the Windfall Elimination Provision, the Government Pensions Offsets provision, and to secure the same treatment as active government employees have to pay health insurance from pretax funds. We feel that constant vigilance is the price we must pay to maintain our benefits.

Demographics:

We have 54 chapters serving the 100 North Carolina Counties – as we say in North Carolina we server from Murphy to Manteo that’s the mountains to the sea. Our membership in 2005 is a little over 7,500. Our chapters are conveniently located – see the map under the Locations on the navigation bar at he bottom of this page to find a chapter near you, visitors are always welcome at our meetings.

Beyond North Carolina, the National Active and Retired Federal Employee’s Association staff in the Washington, D.C. area, supports our efforts. Though this collaborative effort our members have professionals monitoring legislation, regulations, and trends. With over 400,000 members, we can generate bipartisan support across the country on issues that impact our well-being.

History:

The Federation was formed in 1956 when 12 North and South Carolina chapters petitioned National for a Charter to form the Federation. We now have 54 chapters.

We have an elected board of directors and appointed board - the officers and board are provided under the Board item on the navigation bar. We welcome individual comments; you can send us an email by clicking on the highlighted email marker.

The history of our association may be found in the “Library” which is assessable by clicking on Library tab on the navigation bar at the bottom of your screen. You may want to visit our Public Calendar to review upcoming activities, use the “Locations” tab to find a chapter near you, or review chapter newsletters to see what our chapters are about. We invite you to ask questions of our Service Officers – see below.

Services:

We have Service Officers who have expertise with policies and procedures relating to compensation issues, health benefits, death benefits, change of address, and many others that you may face at times. We can also obtain support from the National organization when you require expertise that goes beyond our experience. For information on local service officers and our five service centers click on the Services item on the navigation bar.

Thanks for taking the time to review our page. If you wish to provide comments please send us and email webmaster@www.ncnarfe.info.

Thomas Hobgood

President