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Showing Original Post only (View all)Senate passes Social Security benefits boost for many public service retirees [View all]
Last edited Sat Dec 21, 2024, 09:20 AM - Edit history (1)
https://apnews.com/article/social-security-congress-565aaf221de6d607f207e286655eef25Senate passes Social Security benefits boost for many public service retirees
By STEPHEN GROVES
Updated 11:16 PM CST, December 20, 2024
WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate passed legislation early Saturday to boost Social Security payments for millions of people, pushing a longtime priority for former public employees through Congress in one of its last acts for the year.
The bipartisan bill, which next heads to President Joe Biden, will eliminate longtime reductions to Social Security benefits for nearly 3 million people who receive pensions from work in federal, state and local government, or public service jobs like teachers, firefighters and police officers. Advocates say the Social Security Fairness Act rights a decades-old disparity, though it will also put further strain on Social Security Trust Funds.
The legislation has been decades in the making but the push to pass it came together in the final weeks and was completed in the final hours that lawmakers were in Washington before Congress resets next year. All Senate Democrats except one, as well as 23 Republicans, supported the push to bring it to a final vote in the Senate. The final vote was 76-20.
The bill repeals two provisions the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset that limit Social Security benefits for certain recipients if they receive retirement payments from other sources such as the public retirement program for a state or local government.
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dalton99a
Saturday
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This kind of bipartisanship is the way it is supposed to be. That is the way it USED to be
valleyrogue
Saturday
#10
Yes. It passed both houses overwhelmingly. President Biden will sign it. n/t
valleyrogue
Saturday
#17
I suspect Social Security will issue an official statement with details after Biden signs the bill
dalton99a
Sunday
#45
Not Sure How It Got Started - I Paid 10% Each Check To Teacher Retirement System
alcuno
Saturday
#35
I don't think it's fair that some government jobs are exempted from SS while everyone else is required to contribute
MichMan
Sunday
#40
But if you never worked a Public Government job, ALL you get is just SS. They used to call that Double Dipping.
mackdaddy
Saturday
#20
Collecting a pension and getting Social Security is NOT "double dipping." That was a right-wing LIE peddled years ago.
valleyrogue
Saturday
#22
You ARE saying that anyone who paid into SS shouldn't get the benefits they earned, although you probably don't mean to.
HeartachesNhangovers
Saturday
#26
The thing is most of those who make the "big pensions" wouldn't qualify for SS in the first place.
valleyrogue
Saturday
#27
Methinks he will announce signing the bill between the holidays for greater exposure
Brother Buzz
14 hrs ago
#51