“Washington, D.C. – Today, the Senate overwhelmingly advanced the Social Security Fairness Act, a bipartisan bill authored by Senators Susan Collins and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), by a margin of 73-27. Today’s successful procedural vote indicates the bill likely has the support necessary for final passage later this week.
This bipartisan bill, which passed the House last month by a vote of 327-75, would restore full Social Security benefits for teachers, law enforcement officers, firefighters, and other public servants by repealing two provisions of current law – the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) – that unfairly reduce the Social Security benefits that public employees receive.“
eliminates WEP and GPO, reagan era laws passed.
anyone who paid for a long time into SS deserves full benefits.
thats my opinion as a long term SS person.
susna collins and sherrod brown put together this legislation to help citizens get their full due.
how do others feel about this soon to be passed into law bill?
it does require some explanation, as I am not aware of anyone here who would object to anyone getting the full benefits they paid for. What I could object to is them getting the full pensions I paid for.
exactly i have paying into ss since 1975. one has certain exceptions after paying in for so long. this law returns the fairness of people paying into ss for a long time and was long overdue.
It’s a bunch of hogwash . . . but it pasee with a lotta votes in both parties.
For FOUR DECADES we have been giving federal employers etc. big fat pensions because we also gave them limited eligibility to draw on the fragile, near collagpsig, social secutory trust fund.
Now we pass a bill to give them both, and it comes without a single line, not a single sentence about how to pay for it.
It’s just one more crappy giveway to the same folks whose house prices we’ve been subsidies these many years.
Year 1:“If you accept this job, when you retire, you get ‘A’ instead of ‘B’, which most people get.” Response:“Okay. I accept the job”
Year 2:“If you accept this job, when you retire, you get ‘A’ instead of ‘B’, which most people get.” Response: “Okay. I accept the job”
Year 3:“If you accept this job, when you retire, you get ‘A’ instead of ‘B’, which most people get.” Response:“Okay. I accept the job”
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Continue for 40 years, then
“Boo Hoo I am getting ‘A’ and not ‘B’ like most people get. No fair. Gimme both.”
