Will Congress introduce a legislation to exclude federal retirees from the Social Security penalty?
If Congress passes legislation that could eventually get consideration in the House...
...more than 2m American government pensioners, including thousands in Louisiana, might have their entire Social Security pension will be back.
This week, Republican Louisiana Representative Garret Graves, also
Social Security Fairness Act (H.R. 82)
co-author...
...and others obtained enough co-sponsors to hold a vote on the Floor of the house despite decades of attempting.
Government Pension Offset (Group policy) and The Windfall Elimination Penalty (WEP) which were put in place in the 1980s...
stop govt retirees like cops, teaching staff, fire services, and union members who got pension plans from those jobs and their spouses...
...from getting their full Social Security benefits from jobs they had outside govt.
Republican Louisiana U.s. representative Julia Letlow, who reflects Monroe and Alexandria in the 5th District...
Graves, who represents Louisiana and Bayou Nation in the 6th District...
were both at a press conference in Washington on Friday.
Graves explained, "We punish people who work for the government." "This is unfair and wrong. It just doesn't sound right."
The opposition says that getting rid of the current rules will put more toil on Social Security...
...and make it less viable in the future.
The bill's supporters collected more than 290 patrons, the bipartisan threshold needed to force a House vote.
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