The Social Security Fairness Act, which would increase benefits for 2.8 million retirees, has bipartisan support but time running out.
Efforts to get the Senate to vote on a bill to expand Social Security benefits are intensifying, as the House-passed Social Security Fairness Act enjoys rare bipartisan support but has only a short window of time — six weeks — to be passed.'We're guardedly optimistic,' Shannon Benton executive director of The Senior Citizens League, or TSCL, an advocacy group devoted to protecting retirement benefits, said.
What does the Social Security Fairness Act do?The legislation would cut two provisions that curtail retirement payments for public workers and their surviving spouses and family members, the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset , which Spanberger and Graves argue are tantamount to theft of those workers' benefits.
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