Lawmakers Secure Signatures To Repeal Social Security Benefit Cuts That Could Affect 3 Million...
House lawmakers secured enough signatures to force a vote on a bill to eliminate Social Security rules that reduce benefits for certain retirees with pensions. The bipartisan Social Security Fairness Act aims to repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset,
House may force vote on bill to eliminate rules that reduce pensioners' Social Security benefits
House lawmakers have the signatures they need to prompt a vote on a bill that would eliminate rules limiting Social Security income for pensioners.
Thousands of former Louisiana public workers could gain from U.S. House vote on Social Security
HR 82 would eliminate the Windfall Elimination Provision, called WEP, and the Government Pension Offset, or GPO, sections of the Social Security law that curbed benefits for about 2.8 million public employees.
Brandon Williams joins bipartisan push to force House vote on Social Security bill
U.S. Rep. Brandon Williams is breaking with House Republican leadership to support a bill that would eliminate provisions that reduce Social Security benefits for public-sector employees.
Social Security Update: Lawmakers May Force Vote to Raise Benefits for Some
The Social Security Fairness Act was proposed to reverse the rules surrounding the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO).
House members bypass Mike Johnson a second time to force Social Security vote
A group of House members from both parties succeeded Thursday in deploying a rarely executed method to bypass GOP leadership and force a vote on a bill to expand access to Social Security benefits. Why it matters: It's the second time this year that a bipartisan group of lawmakers has sidestepped House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.
U.S. House to vote on bill to end Social Security penalty on police, teachers, firefighters
Louisiana Congressman Garret Graves has secured enough signatures to trigger a vote on bill that would end Social Security on government retirees.
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Bill to repeal WEP, GPO reaches threshold to force a House floor vote
The Social Security Fairness Act, a bill to undo WEP and GPO, has enough support to force a floor vote. But that’s unlikely to happen until at least November.
Social Security Expansion Bill Gets Bipartisan Support
A bill that would expand Social Security benefits for nearly three million recipients has received bipartisan support, allowing it to be pushed through to the next stage of the legislative process.
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Repealing the WEP/GPO Provision Leads to Larger Deficits and Earlier Insolvency
Members of Congress recently filed a discharge petition on a bill to repeal Social Security’s Windfall Elimination Provision ...
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You can almost taste the repeal of these social security holdbacks
Can it be that the repeal of the windfall elimination provision and the government pension offset will actually happen? The WEP and GPO that hold back Social Security benefits for certain federal and ...
Change in Social Security could affect more than 300K in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana
For decades, public workers who got a pension or other government retirement funding didn't get social security.
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Lawmakers file discharge petition to repeal controversial tax rule affecting federal retirees
The Social Security Fairness Act has broad bipartisan support both in Congress and among federal employee unions.
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Social Security bill could raise benefits for some retirees in CT
The Windfall Elimination Provision can lower how much beneficiaries receive from Social Security if they also get ...
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The Windfall Elimination Provision - WEP - Can Reduce Social Security Retirement Benefits
The first rule is the windfall elimination provision or WEP (which applies to one’s own benefits) and the second main rule is the government pension offset or GPO (which applies to spousal ...