A bill to enhance Social Security benefits and ensure the long-term solvency of the Social Security program.
Social Security Expansion Act
This bill increases benefits and certain taxes related to Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance.
Changes to benefits include (1) increasing the primary insurance amount for certain beneficiaries; (2) revising the method of calculating cost-of-living adjustments; (3) establishing a new minimum benefit for certain low earners; and (4) allowing certain children of retired, deceased, or disabled workers to receive benefits until age 22 if they are a full-time students.
Changes to taxes include increasing the net investment income tax for certain taxpayers and extending payroll taxes on wages, salaries, and self-employment earnings to income above $250,000. Under current law, the maximum amount subject to the Social Security payroll tax is $132,900 for 2019.
The bill also combines the existing Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund into a single Social Security Trust Fund.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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