AUGUSTA – Every year, Pat Pulkkinen puts on her red shirt and comes to Augusta.

On Monday, it’s that time of year again. The Paris resident will join about 300 fellow AARP members to meet their legislators and lobby for issues affecting them.

This year AARP members are supporting a bill sponsored by Senate President Beth Edmonds, D-Freeport, that would make Maine’s unemployment compensation law more fair to seniors. The bill aims to end the practice of reducing unemployment checks for those on Social Security.

A bus – already nearly full – will transport members from Oxford Hills and Lewiston to Augusta on Monday morning. Other buses will arrive from other areas of the state. The members will give presentations and visit legislators.