The House of Representatives passed the Social Security Fairness Act in November, aiming to eliminate rules that reduce Social Security benefits for individuals who receive income from public pensions. The Senate is expected to vote on the bill soon, with supporters urging swift action. While advocates celebrate the potential impact, experts have expressed concerns about the policy's effectiveness.
People who receive income from public pensions may have their Social Security benefits reduced. The Senate may soon vote to eliminate those rules.In November, the House of Representatives passed a bill by an overwhelming majority to nix those rules. Social Security Fairness Act For supporters of the bill, that legislative victory has been followed by a suspenseful wait. The Senate must also pass the proposal for it to become law.
And the number of legislative days left in this session of Congress are quickly running out. At a Wednesday rally on Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, promised to put the bill up for a vote. 'I am here to tell you the Senate is going to take action,' Schumer said, prompting cheers from the crowd including fire fighters, police, postal workers, teachers and other government employees, who stood outside the Capitol building in the rain. 'What's happening to you is unfair, un-American,' Schumer said. 'I will fight it all the way.' Bette Marafino, an 86-year-old retired teacher and a member of a national grassroots task force that has pushed to have the rules eliminated, was at the Capitol when the House voted in November. The vote prompted cheers that turned into tears of joy from the small group of advocates who witnessed it. 'We were so happy,' Marafino said. 'It's going to be start all over again, and we'll need to have some champions,' Marafino said, now that Reps. Garret Graves, R-La., and Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., who co-led the bill, are leaving Congress. Despite the enthusiasm from advocates behind the bill, many experts on both the left and right have said the Social Security Fairness Act is not the best policy. The rules the bill would eliminate — the Windfall Elimination Provision, or WEP, and the Government Pension Offset, or GPO — were designed to make it so all Social Security beneficiaries received a comparable reimbursement for their contributions to the progra
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