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• Actions support the Social Security Fairness Act The Social Security Administration announced it is immediately beginning to pay retroactive benefits and will increase monthly benefit payments to people whose benefits have been affected by the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO). These provisions reduced or eliminated the Social Security benefits for over 3.2 million people who receive a pension based on work that was not covered by Social Security (a “non-covered pension”) because they did not pay Social Security taxes.

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry is looking for qualified collegiate students to join the Market Development team throughout the summer. The Oklahoma Ag in the Classroom intern will promote the program through written and digital communications, assisting with events, organizing resources for educators and completing goals set forth by the program.

Rep. Justin Humphrey, R-Lane, recently spoke about his legislation that would have stopped the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry from requiring livestock to be tagged with radio frequency identification (RFID) devices failing to receive a hearing in a House committee.

The Iris Garden Club met on Feb. 24 at Burnside Community room. President Harolynn Wofford called the meeting to order and welcomed everyone. Wofford and Shondell Rothmire were hostesses. The group recited the Gardener’s Creed and Rick Lowrance led in prayer.