The bills titles are written by its sponsor. Introduced in Senate (04/22/2021) Social Security Fairness Act This bill repeals provisions that reduce Social Security benefits for individuals who receive other We hope to make GovTrack more useful to policy professionals like you. Introduced Session. We are still accepting signatures! Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House and Senate early last year, the Social Security Fairness Act of 2021, (HR 82 and S 1302) has recently gained some Administration reported that 716,662 people were affected by the If you teach United States government and would like to speak with us about bringing legislative data into your classroom, please reach out! in this Congress and finally accomplish the elimination of the (More Info). We have always stood up forFULL REPEALof both the WEP and the GPO, but there is a contingent working tolegislate only a partial fix of the Windfall, Message for Wednesdays December 7 & 14 Here is todays message to members of the Senate Finance Committee whose support we need to repeal the WEP/GPO. GovTrack automatically collects legislative information from a variety of governmental and non-governmental sources. 82, the Social Security Fairness Act, is now cosponsored by a majority of the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives. Add a note about this bill. (35 Democrats, 4 Republicans, 3 Independents). Two changes to Social Security from the 70s and 80s reduce the programs benefits for millions of public sector employees including teachers, police officers, and firefighters. Copyright 2023 Center for the National Interest All Rights Reserved. Follow him on Twitter at @StephenSilver. Last updated Sep 12, 2019. Julia Letlow's first bill amplifies Americans' COVID legacies, including late husband Luke, Your California Privacy Rights / Privacy Policy. Unfortunately, this elimination would be quite costly, the report said. You can help us stay in the game! acknowledged that current rules penalize teachers and other Help us develop the tools to bring real-time legislative data into the classroom. Pension Offset of the Social Security Act in order to once again The Social Security Fairness Act was successful in committee in the 117th Congress and should be brought to the floor in the 118th Congress, passed unanimously 117th Congress. However, Davis told Federal News Network that he hopes the bill will lead Congress to ensure the long-term solvency of Social Security., Will it cost? Boatwright said retired law enforcement officers face as much as a 60% cut to their Social Security benefits. Were collecting the statements of stakeholder organizations. The current version currently stands at 198. It is important to maintain this fair treatment between covered and non-covered workers., Hence, a repeal of WEP and GPO would violate the principles of fairness and equity that these provisions were intended to protect, Fichtner continued. If you log into GovTrack using Twitter, make sure you dont lose access to your GovTrack account. The bill also eliminates the windfall elimination provision, which in some instances reduces Social Security benefits for individuals whoalso receive a pension or disability benefit from an employer that did not withhold Social Security taxes. Actof 2021, H.R. The bill's primary sponsor is from the state/territory: LA. Nows the time to get it done.. Feb 20, 2023. That means there are other bills with the number H.R. The other provision is the Government Pension Offset (GPO), which reduces the Social Security benefits of spouses, widows and widowers with pensions from a federal, state or local government job. They had the advantage of receiving Social Security benefits representing a higher percentage of their earnings, plus a pension from a job for which they didnt pay Social Security taxes. Join 10 million other Americans using GovTrack to learn about and contact your representative and senators and track what Congress is doing each day. Data via the congress project. The Social Security Fairness Act now has more than 290 co-sponsors, more than enough to force a House floor vote. Social Security Fairness Act of 2023. . |title=S. Feb 20, 2023. It never received a vote, whether the House was under Democratic or Republican control. Last year, about695,000 peoplewere affected by the GPO. You are encouraged to reuse any material on this site. It awaits a potential vote in the House Ways and Means Committee. There are multiple bills currently up for consideration in Congress that would reform Social Security. Youve cast your vote. Whereas, the Social Security Fairness Act of 2019, H.R. Because WEP and GPO improve the fairness of Social Security benefits, removing them would be unfair. When it comes time to get their Social Security, they find out they moved the goalpost. Would you like to join our advisory group to work with us on the future of GovTrack? Youre more than a vote, so support GovTrack today with a tip of any amount: Or keep using GovTrack for free! This is part of a new project to develop better tools for bringing real-time legislative data into the classroom. On Sept.16, the 24th legislative day, the Chairperson of the House Ways and Means Committee brought the, Last week the House Ways and Means Committee stopped our path to a floor vote on full repeal of the WEP and GPO! The Social Security Board of Trustees has said Social Security will become insolvent in in 2035. HR82 the Social Security Fairness Act has attained the 292 votes needed for it to pass to the US House of Representatives for a floor vote.This bill would repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP).. Its an open protocol, which means it does not have an owner using the platform Congress intended for Social Security spousal benefits to support non-working spouses who are financially dependent on a working spouse. Launched in 2004, GovTrack helps everyone learn about and track the activities of the United States Congress. Analysts have discovered that the current mechanisms favor somewhat high-wage government workers compared to low-wage ones. retirement systems whose employment is not covered by Social A Forbes op-ed published in late 2020 urged President Joe Biden to reform the windfall elimination provision. GovTrack.us is not a government website. Democrat. Congress should work to refine these proposals, rather than give out yet another unjustified and unpaid-for large transfer of taxpayer resources to politically favored groupshere some government workers and retirees, recently, members of union multiemployer pension plans, and prospectively, student loan borrowers. We hope that with your input we can make GovTrack more accessible to minority and disadvantaged communities who we may currently struggle to reach. "Only when we were on the cusp of forcing a floor vote did Democratic leadership take action to essentially bog it down in a backlog," Letlow, of Start, said during a House floor speech Wednesday. But Letlow said the current policy "is cheating nearly 2 million Americans out of their earned benefits.". employee retirees annually added to this number; and, Whereas, cutting earned Social Security benefits Were looking for feedback from educators about how GovTrack can be used and improved for your classroom. Mastodon is an alternative social media platform. |work=Legislation Congress.gov is generally updated one day after events occur, and so legislative activity shown here may be one day behind. from other states can be found on the SSF website), including Sponsors, Davis and Spanberger, have formally requested a House VOTE on their bill. We need to be incentivizing people to go and be firefighters, to go into public service. Both provisions were enacted to prevent so-called double dipping, or people receiving Social Security payouts from two different sources. (More Info). This bill is in the first stage of the legislative process. Covering all new state and local government workers in Social Security is the best long-term solution to this fairness problem, but even then a transition would be needed for older non-covered workers and current beneficiaries. . H.R. Social Media Child Protection Act would ban children younger than 16 from platforms like TikTok, REAL House Act, Equal Voice Act would each increase number of House of Representatives members, Standing with Moms Act would create Life.gov website of anti-abortion information for pregnant, 28 Democrats or Democratic-affiliated independents and four Republicans. If you log into GovTrack using Twitter, make sure you dont lose access to your GovTrack account. Week 44. Your note is for you and will not be shared with anyone. 2013s version had 136 cosponsors (96 Democrats and 40 Republicans), then 2015s version had 159 House cosponsors (120 Democrats and 39 Republicans), then 2017s version had 195 cosponsors (134 Democrats and 61 Republicans). (2023). Heres an example. March 1, 2023 . Letlow said her office has received 3,000 constituent calls during her first year in Congress asking her to support changing the law, the most concerning of any issue. Because you are a member of panel, your positions on legislation and notes below will be shared with the panel administrators. Here are the steps for Status of Legislation: Introduced. Well be in touch. Our team from ssfairness.org is working, Its H.R. The bipartisan legislation would eliminate two provisions of the 1935 Social Security Act that reduce or eliminate the Social Security benefits of more than 2 million retirees. Lets say a teacher in one of those aforementioned 15 states whichisntcovered by Social Security marries somebody whose public sector jobwascovered by Social Security. Data via the congress project. Free Signup Login. The legislation would repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO)long-standing features of Social Security that adjust somewhat the Social Security benefits of those receiving non-covered pensions paid by employers that do not withhold Social Security taxes, typically state and local governments and non-US employers. Please help us make GovTrack better address the needs of educators by joining our advisory group. Visit us on Mastodon Were looking for feedback from educators about how GovTrack can be used and improved for your classroom. Last year,1.9 million peoplewere affected by the WEP. . That bill would not completely eliminate the WEP. (More Info). Passing the Social Security Fairness Act will immediately benefit millions of retired police officers, federal employees, first responders, and other public servants. Davis told reporters in a press conference Friday the bill to eliminate these egregious provisions has made it further in Congress than previous efforts. This instantly made hundreds of thousands of men eligible for Social Security payouts they werent eligible for before, so Congress made this change to avoid having to raise taxes. We recommend the following MLA-formatted citation when using the information you see here in academic work: GovTrack.us. Congress.gov, the official portal of the United States Congress. Dianne, For those of you who want the details on our current situation, below is an article explaining the current state of WEP/GPO legislation with one week to go in this session. Feb 20, 2023. 82 (118th) The legislation, H.R. 82, sponsored by Representative Rodney Davis of Illinois, seeks to address an issue where Social Security benefits for public servants at various levels of government and their spouses under certain conditions. The legislation is popular, with 303 cosponsors almost 70 percent of the House as of this writing. Our mission is to empower every American with the tools to understand and impact Congress. 82 On the Line Tuesday September 20th. . |work=Legislation By repealing these outdated provisions that unfairly penalize public servants we can provide some certainty to retirees while helping to recruit future teachers, firefighters, and police officers., These workers have taught children and kept communities safe, and its up to us to make sure law enforcement officers and teachers can retire with their full Social Security benefits, Sen. Brownsaid in a separate press release. Such removal would transfer resources from all taxpayers and beneficiaries (including government workers with covered pensions) at an amount estimated by the Social Security actuary as equivalent to a permanent increase in the payroll tax of 0.12 percent, $150 billion over the next 10 years, and moving the date of Trust Fund exhaustion forward by a year, to about 2.7 million beneficiaries currently affected by WEP and GPO.