US Congress Senate Bill 1651 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-6-2)
Status: Introduced on June 23 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-06-23 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S4547-4548)
Pending: Senate Finance Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Social Security Fairness Act of 2015 Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to repeal the government pension offset requirement applicable to and reducing husband's and wife's insurance benefits, widow's and widower's insurance benefits, and divorced mother's and divorced father's insurance benefits with respect to federal, state, or local government employees who receive a government pension and did not pay Social Security taxes during their years of government service, and so did not earn entitlement to Social Security benefits for those years. Repeals also the windfall elimination requirement with respect to computation of an individual's primary insurance amount under which OASDI retirement or disability benefits are reduced if the individual receives a federal, state, or local government pension, did not pay Social Security taxes during the years of government service, and so did not earn entitlement to Social Security benefits for those years.

Social Security Fairness Act of 2015

Sen. Sherrod Brown [D-OH]	Sen. Susan Collins [R-ME]	Sen. Elizabeth Warren [D-MA]	Sen. Mazie Hirono [D-HI]
Sen. Richard Blumenthal [D-CT]	Sen. David Vitter [R-LA]	Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R-AK]	Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D-RI]
Sen. Jack Reed [D-RI]	Sen. Tammy Baldwin [D-WI]	Sen. Al Franken [D-MN]	Sen. Tom Udall [D-NM]
Sen. Dean Heller [R-NV]	Sen. Robert Menendez [D-NJ]	Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-VT]	Sen. Barbara Boxer [D-CA]
Sen. Christopher Murphy [D-CT]	Sen. Martin Heinrich [D-NM]	Sen. Maria Cantwell [D-WA]	Sen. Bill Cassidy [R-LA]
Sen. Patty Murray [D-WA]	Sen. Bernard Sanders [I-VT]	Sen. Angus King [I-ME]	Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand [D-NY]
Sen. Mark Kirk [R-IL]	Sen. Claire McCaskill [D-MO]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-06-23	Senate	Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S4547-4548)

HB973 (Same As) 2015-02-27 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1651/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/s1651/BILLS-114s1651is.pdf