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The chamber approved House Resolution 82, the Social Security Fairness Act, by a 327-76 margin, with 191 Democrats and 136 Republicans voting in favor. The measure now goes to the Senate.
The Social Security Fairness Act is a United States law that repealed the Social Security Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provision. [1] The bill passed the House in November 2024 and then passed the Senate in December. [2] It was signed into law by President Biden on January 5, 2025. [3]
The proposed legislation, known as the Social Security Fairness Act, would erase the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO), which have long been criticized ...
The windfall elimination provision reduces Social Security benefits for individuals who receive pension or disability benefits from employment that did not require them to contribute payroll taxes ...
Social security benefits were reduced by two-thirds of the non-covered government pension amount. [1] Note this is not two-thirds of the Social Security benefit; for example, a $600 non-covered pension benefit would reduce Social Security spousal benefits by $400, regardless of whether the spouse was entitled to $500 or $1000 on the Social Security record of the number holder.
Opponents of this bill, such as the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, stated that this would hasten the point where Social Security payouts exceed taxes by six months. [13] Others state that repealing the WEP would reintroduce the ability of a windfall to be generated by higher-paid long-time public sector workers who work for a short ...
The bill has “broad bipartisan support among 300 lawmakers” in the U.S. House, according to Reps. Abigail Spanbeger (D-Va.) and Garret Graves (R-La.), who are leading efforts to get the Act ...
Due to a procedural glitch, the bill was improperly sent to the President and in an unusual attempt to solve the problem, the House passed it again as H.R. 6124. Hence the House Leadership used the suspension calendar to do so. Other examples of suspension bills in the 110th United States Congress: