It only applies to people who worked their 40 work quarters paying into Social Security but instead of getting 100% what they paid into they're only getting about 30%. They're being penalized and money is being stolen from them and that's why the bill passed for WEP and GPO to be repealed. These people are not double dipping or stealing from the government, they are the ones being stolen from and the only reason that Social Security will run out of money sooner is because it's finally paying what it should have been paying to everybody all along. It's kind of like you go out and you buy a steak dinner but when you get the dinner you don't get the steak but you still have to pay full price. People who worked in both the private sector and the public sector have every right to get their full Social Security benefits just like people who only worked in the private sector.
This is NOT being explained correctly! The SS benefits that were PAID into are REDUCED UNFAIRLY. So if you qualifed for paying in for say 20 years they cut your EARNED money as if you only paid in say 10 years. What was the point of working all the extra years paying into SS if they never saw part of their benefits? They would have been better off by working only in one system not two. Most workers didn't even know this until they tried to retire! If they had known they would have certainly done it differently!!!! THUS THE FAIRNESS ACT. Other SS recipients were receiving the benefits they should have gotten to start with!
@@JonnyNelson-gs9gm EXACTLY!!! THE GOVERNMENT ISN'T ALLOWED TO TOUCH SOCIAL SECURITY BECAUSE IT'S NOT A GOVERNMENT AGENCY!!! NOT ONE DIME OF GOVERNMENT MONEY GOES INTO SOCIAL SECURITY!!! ITS SELF FUNDED!!! BUT HARRIS AND AND BIDEN SPENT SOCIAL SECURITY MONEY ON ILLEGALS!!! THEY NEED SUED AND THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO PAY BACK INTEREST PLUS FINES!!! INLY
What most people are failing to understand is the fact that the people that are entitled to the benefit of the Social Security Fairness Act are the people who worked the full or more 40 work quarters paying into Social Security. Sometime within their work years they also worked as a public employee in a position that did not pay into Social Security. These people when they reach the age to draw their social security are penalized and only receive about 30% of what they should have received if they had not been a public employee. In other words they were being robbed of their benefits. This act only corrects that and gives them back their full 100% benefits.
Lets send hundreds of billions of $$$$$$$$$ out of country, who cares about americans.. remember 1,050 billionaires and 22 million , millionaire's in usa... basket ball players , foot ball players, baseball players make hundreds of millions and basic donate very little... to SOCIAL SECURITY..
Yes, that's exactly how it's always worked. This doesn't change that. This is for people who DID pay their forty quarters of significant income into Social Security, but also worked in a public sector job for part of their life.
True but they are the ones claiming disability they lie and do what ever to get a check..when the real disabled are waiting and waiting for theirs 😭😭😂🙏🌹
THAT IS NOT RIGHT!!!! Everyone on Social Security worked hard for that money! Not only the chosen should get an increase!! ALL recipients of Social Security should get that same increase!!
These people worked in the private sector and paid into it for the 10 years or 40 work quarters and earned the right to receive their full Social Security benefits just like anybody else. The fact that they also worked in the public sector should not penalize them. People who only worked in the private sector get their full Social Security once they have enough work credits. And that's fair. But having worked in the private sector in earning those same work credits but only getting 30% of the benefits is not fair. So the Social Security Fairness Act corrects that. Nobody's getting anything that they're not entitled to but they are going to start getting what they were entitled to and didn't get.
It’s not an increase. Social Security had cut their benefits by 50% or more. If they were entitled to receive $1000, they are only getting $500. And some are getting nothing.
Has SS been stealing 2/3 of everyone's benefits like they have been doing to the 2.8 million hard working Americans? They are 'chosen' because they were 'chosen' to be stolen from. This Act stops the stealing and gives that group the benefitsthey EARNED but never received. But it will only go back one year. I know people who have had over $100,000 stolen from them.
Naturally the $64,000 Question you haven't asked & answered in this report is "how did the Trust Fund get into this depleted state? Who has been raiding the piggy bank & what was the money used for?"
It should be universal. Same for all. Also, remove the tax cap so rich can pay their share and social security can be strengthened. So ridiculous there is a cap. N, ted Cruz sit down and shut up. U have no alternative
Try paying back the money they stole from the social security trust fund.. make millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share of taxes!! (Problem solved.)
FYI - you receive social security check “calculation” on how many years you put into SS’ and most importantly How Much you contribute ? ( Years X amount $ )
Has anybody looked into the money that is payed by illigal workers and goes into Social Security?? How many illigal alliens?? Millions? Where is the money? Who keeps it?
Social security insolvency? Money doesn't grow on trees.. all they need to do is print enough money at Dept of Treasury and give it to the social security programs.!I don't know what the problem is..😢
They have been taking 500.00 every month from my federal retirement for 8 yrs. After I retired I had to go back out and work because I couldn't make it with my retirement pension. When I made 62 they started taking 500.00 every month. I waited until I was 70 and this yr they gave me 197.00 from my social security. So who's getting screwed here. Do the math at 500.00 X 12 x8yrs . I am still getting screwed from what I put into social security and my retirement pension
The only people that were being robbed are the people who qualify for this Fairness Act because they paid into Social Security 100 % yet instead of getting 100% of their benefits they only get 30%. So now once it's signed they'll finally start getting their full amount so that's why Social Security might run out of money sooner because they're actually going to finally be paying these people the amount they should have been paying them all along. However it's only a year retroactive instead of the 40+ years that the SSA has been stealing from them. It's like I've already said it's like you buy a steak dinner and when it arrives at your table they didn't give you the steak but you paid full price...
Their “tax-payer funded pensions?” No, they fund their pension with 9.75% withholdings from thier pay. They are only getting social security for the years they paid into social security from other jobs.
@@Pope9876technically we still have to work the 40 work quarters into Social Security to qualify to receive Social Security. However the WEP makes it so that instead of getting 100% of the Social Security benefits that we paid into we only get about 30% of it. And that's not fair because we paid into Social Security the required amount for full benefits but we're not getting full benefits. We paid into a public pension, and we shouldn't be penalized for that. Some people say oh but you guys are a public pension make so much money. That is incorrect as my it's called an industrial disability benefit and it is at poverty level. My social security benefit pays for my forced Medicare (yes the government forces you to enroll in Medicare once you hit 65 if you don't have any other insurance and I don't have any other insurance because I haven't seen a doctor in over 20 years). Yeah it will be nice to finally have an income where I'm not living in below poverty level.
If want to give back every penny that they paid into Social Security over the years, then you can complain. Otherwise they get the same benefit as anyone else. It's not the government's job to discourage citizens from saving in multiple accounts for retirement.
It's only public servants because they're the only ones that have their social security reduced down to 30% from the full amount that they should receive have they not been a public employee. 0:03 You people don't understand that they paid into Social Security the required amount to receive 100% of their social security benefit but they only get 30%. How is it not fair that they finally get their 100%?
No. It's people who worked only private-sector jobs that are getting 100% of their benefit and a lot more. Public servants were having their Social Security benefits cut because their agencies paid into a separate retirement system. Imagine if you paid into Social Security for years, but also paid into a 401K, and SS cut your benefit because of your "other" pension plan. No good deed or amount of wise retirement planning goes unpunished...
Did you know every time the Republicans control the house we have a Government shutdown 21 days 16 days 3 days 35 days wait until 2025 when Trump takes office again gonna be shutdown again it's your fault who ever voted for him and whose packing the house with more deficit raises again we just can't fix stupid in America 🤣🤣🤣🤣
They don't get more than you. They get the same as you. SSA was paying them less because they had the foresight to also pay into a separate pension fund. Contributing to two funds simultaneously is not double dipping when you begin to collect from both.
Called the windfall profit elimination act . Its a mess if you earned ss and worked tor gov your ss is limited. Thr formulas are messed up they need the make them more fair
So the people that retired with full pension and benefits for life paid for by the taxpayers get an extra 40% increase in their social security paid by taxpayers. In the meantime those of us who were self employed, made nothing while employing others get a COLA. In addition if you were stupid enough like me to be a second career guy in ministry you spent tens of thousands to get a 4 year degree and a Master's to make 30 grand a year helping people. Now had I become a social worker my school debt would be erased and I'd also get a pension from the government. Instead after paying on my student loans for 20 years I owe 2o grand more than I originally owed and I get a whopping $1470 to live on every month before the $560 school loan. I can do whatever I want with the other $910. I can eat and live indoors if I keep my expenses including food, rent, insurance, clothing, medicine, car, fuel etc to below $30/day. Makes 51 years of working seem well worth the effort.
What about all the other people that aren't public servants???
Should have picked a job that lets you commit fraud like public office
It only applies to people who worked their 40 work quarters paying into Social Security but instead of getting 100% what they paid into they're only getting about 30%. They're being penalized and money is being stolen from them and that's why the bill passed for WEP and GPO to be repealed.
These people are not double dipping or stealing from the government, they are the ones being stolen from and the only reason that Social Security will run out of money sooner is because it's finally paying what it should have been paying to everybody all along.
It's kind of like you go out and you buy a steak dinner but when you get the dinner you don't get the steak but you still have to pay full price.
People who worked in both the private sector and the public sector have every right to get their full Social Security benefits just like people who only worked in the private sector.
This is called discrimination
i receive pension and i agree with you
They already receive 100% of their benefit.
how about those retired caregiver or restaurant server do you increase them also
lol a retired restaurant server? Probably do something more important than paying taxes on your 5$s an hour lolololololol
This is NOT being explained correctly! The SS benefits that were PAID into are REDUCED UNFAIRLY. So if you qualifed for paying in for say 20 years they cut your EARNED money as if you only paid in say 10
years. What was the point of working all the extra years paying into SS if they never saw part of their benefits? They would have been better off by working only in one system not two. Most workers didn't even know this until they tried to retire! If they had known they would have certainly done it differently!!!!
THUS THE FAIRNESS ACT.
Other SS recipients were receiving the benefits they should have gotten to start with!
How about not sending billions to other Countries and put that money in S.S fund??
you mean trillions
@@JonnyNelson-gs9gm EXACTLY!!! THE GOVERNMENT ISN'T ALLOWED TO TOUCH SOCIAL SECURITY BECAUSE IT'S NOT A GOVERNMENT AGENCY!!! NOT ONE DIME OF GOVERNMENT MONEY GOES INTO SOCIAL SECURITY!!! ITS SELF FUNDED!!! BUT HARRIS AND AND BIDEN SPENT SOCIAL SECURITY MONEY ON ILLEGALS!!! THEY NEED SUED AND THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO PAY BACK INTEREST PLUS FINES!!! INLY
What most people are failing to understand is the fact that the people that are entitled to the benefit of the Social Security Fairness Act are the people who worked the full or more 40 work quarters paying into Social Security. Sometime within their work years they also worked as a public employee in a position that did not pay into Social Security. These people when they reach the age to draw their social security are penalized and only receive about 30% of what they should have received if they had not been a public employee.
In other words they were being robbed of their benefits. This act only corrects that and gives them back their full 100% benefits.
Lets send hundreds of billions of $$$$$$$$$ out of country, who cares about americans.. remember 1,050 billionaires and 22 million , millionaire's in usa... basket ball players , foot ball players, baseball players make hundreds of millions and basic donate very little... to SOCIAL SECURITY..
time to stop making tax payers pay most of government retirements.
So if he didn’t work for the government. Your Social Security is going to stay the same.
I believe that's correct.
IF THEY DIDN'T PAY A DIME IN THEY SHOULD NOT BE GETTING A DIME!!!
Yes, that's exactly how it's always worked. This doesn't change that. This is for people who DID pay their forty quarters of significant income into Social Security, but also worked in a public sector job for part of their life.
True but they are the ones claiming disability they lie and do what ever to get a check..when the real disabled are waiting and waiting for theirs 😭😭😂🙏🌹
THAT IS NOT RIGHT!!!! Everyone on Social Security worked hard for that money! Not only the chosen should get an increase!! ALL recipients of Social Security should get that same increase!!
Lol you think some lazy bum that barely worked deserves the same as someone who was a career public servant? You have it twisted bro
@@Dontworryaboutit12the same people who helped sail the country down the river dont deserve a penny
These people worked in the private sector and paid into it for the 10 years or 40 work quarters and earned the right to receive their full Social Security benefits just like anybody else. The fact that they also worked in the public sector should not penalize them.
People who only worked in the private sector get their full Social Security once they have enough work credits. And that's fair. But having worked in the private sector in earning those same work credits but only getting 30% of the benefits is not fair.
So the Social Security Fairness Act corrects that. Nobody's getting anything that they're not entitled to but they are going to start getting what they were entitled to and didn't get.
It’s not an increase.
Social Security had cut their benefits by 50% or more.
If they were entitled to receive $1000, they are only getting $500.
And some are getting nothing.
Has SS been stealing 2/3 of everyone's benefits like they have been doing to the 2.8 million hard working Americans? They are 'chosen' because they were 'chosen' to be stolen from. This Act stops the stealing and gives that group the benefitsthey EARNED but never received. But it will only go back one year. I know people who have had over $100,000 stolen from them.
Naturally the $64,000 Question you haven't asked & answered in this report is "how did the Trust Fund get into this depleted state? Who has been raiding the piggy bank & what was the money used for?"
It should be universal.
Same for all.
Also, remove the tax cap so rich can pay their share and social security can be strengthened.
So ridiculous there is a cap.
N, ted Cruz sit down and shut up.
U have no alternative
@@madcowlive1081 Trump wants THAT CHANGED !!!! All money is subject OF docial security!!!
@tonycook5802 trump wants to remove the tax cap on social security?
That's exactly what this bill does. Now public servants receive the same SS benefits as everyone else.
@@ccrider77 ya, the title was a little misleading for me. But ya, it just makes it equal. Which is great.
Yes
Try paying back the money they stole from the social security trust fund.. make millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share of taxes!! (Problem solved.)
👆 Has never looked at IRS data a day in his life.
FYI - you receive social security check “calculation” on how many years you put into SS’ and most importantly How Much you contribute ? ( Years X amount $ )
You have to work 40 work quarters to qualify for Social Security, especially if you also worked as a public employee also.
They take care check we can't pay the rent
Has anybody looked into the money that is payed by illigal workers and goes into Social Security??
How many illigal alliens??
Millions?
Where is the money?
Who keeps it?
So if you retired from a government job, you'll see an increase? Is that what they're saying?
If you also worked for private jobs for at least 10 years, yes... If you worked less than your 40 quarters in the private sector, then no...
That will drain the SS hurting millions of SS recipients .
Social security insolvency? Money doesn't grow on trees.. all they need to do is print enough money at Dept of Treasury and give it to the social security programs.!I don't know what the problem is..😢
That’s a joke!! I’ve been missed for years!! Got to see it!🙏🏼
Congress must raise the SS cap- that’s a solution!
Social Security, another failed FDR law.
Stimulus checks and consider that social security
Yes us normal folks got 16 dollars a month
repealed to those government workers but to those not government workers automatic cut 20% or over, after 6months
They have been taking 500.00 every month from my federal retirement for 8 yrs. After I retired I had to go back out and work because I couldn't make it with my retirement pension. When I made 62 they started taking 500.00 every month. I waited until I was 70 and this yr they gave me 197.00 from my social security. So who's getting screwed here. Do the math at 500.00 X 12 x8yrs . I am still getting screwed from what I put into social security and my retirement pension
They basically got a short cut
Keep the money for Palestinians Iranians and other enemies and of course POLITICIANS
Don’t worry for retirees
That's BS speeding up the solvancy by 6 months I think that's BS lies lies lies
The only people that were being robbed are the people who qualify for this Fairness Act because they paid into Social Security 100 % yet instead of getting 100% of their benefits they only get 30%. So now once it's signed they'll finally start getting their full amount so that's why Social Security might run out of money sooner because they're actually going to finally be paying these people the amount they should have been paying them all along. However it's only a year retroactive instead of the 40+ years that the SSA has been stealing from them.
It's like I've already said it's like you buy a steak dinner and when it arrives at your table they didn't give you the steak but you paid full price...
Hahahahaa, because our government employees don’t already get enough with their tax-payer funded pensions?? ☠️
This is their money. They paid into it and have been penalized because their job provided a pension. About time they got their money🎉
Their “tax-payer funded pensions?” No, they fund their pension with 9.75% withholdings from thier pay.
They are only getting social security for the years they paid into social security from other jobs.
@@Pope9876technically we still have to work the 40 work quarters into Social Security to qualify to receive Social Security. However the WEP makes it so that instead of getting 100% of the Social Security benefits that we paid into we only get about 30% of it. And that's not fair because we paid into Social Security the required amount for full benefits but we're not getting full benefits. We paid into a public pension, and we shouldn't be penalized for that.
Some people say oh but you guys are a public pension make so much money. That is incorrect as my it's called an industrial disability benefit and it is at poverty level. My social security benefit pays for my forced Medicare (yes the government forces you to enroll in Medicare once you hit 65 if you don't have any other insurance and I don't have any other insurance because I haven't seen a doctor in over 20 years).
Yeah it will be nice to finally have an income where I'm not living in below poverty level.
If want to give back every penny that they paid into Social Security over the years, then you can complain. Otherwise they get the same benefit as anyone else. It's not the government's job to discourage citizens from saving in multiple accounts for retirement.
You get more already just they would get what you get
Only public servants? Wow thats awful
It's only public servants because they're the only ones that have their social security reduced down to 30% from the full amount that they should receive have they not been a public employee.
0:03 You people don't understand that they paid into Social Security the required amount to receive 100% of their social security benefit but they only get 30%. How is it not fair that they finally get their 100%?
@the_quaint_gypsy where does it say that? Makes no sense
So a select few get
More $$$ That is not right. Public servants, why the special privileges.
Regular Folks being ignored.
No. It's people who worked only private-sector jobs that are getting 100% of their benefit and a lot more. Public servants were having their Social Security benefits cut because their agencies paid into a separate retirement system. Imagine if you paid into Social Security for years, but also paid into a 401K, and SS cut your benefit because of your "other" pension plan. No good deed or amount of wise retirement planning goes unpunished...
Disgraceful!!!only certain people we wil remember the ones that for got us ?
More and more like the USSR every day
insane. we can see why this country is gonna capsize
Did you know every time the Republicans control the house we have a Government shutdown 21 days 16 days 3 days 35 days wait until 2025 when Trump takes office again gonna be shutdown again it's your fault who ever voted for him and whose packing the house with more deficit raises again we just can't fix stupid in America 🤣🤣🤣🤣
You mean except for the Democratic Senate under Obama during the 2013 shutdown...
thats treason!
All bs
cool, so we pay the same amount as them and they get more. these politicians suck
They don't get more than you. They get the same as you.
SSA was paying them less because they had the foresight to also pay into a separate pension fund.
Contributing to two funds simultaneously is not double dipping when you begin to collect from both.
Who cares they don't deserve it?
THANK PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN !
Called the windfall profit elimination act . Its a mess if you earned ss and worked tor gov your ss is limited. Thr formulas are messed up they need the make them more fair
So the people that retired with full pension and benefits for life paid for by the taxpayers get an extra 40% increase in their social security paid by taxpayers. In the meantime those of us who were self employed, made nothing while employing others get a COLA. In addition if you were stupid enough like me to be a second career guy in ministry you spent tens of thousands to get a 4 year degree and a Master's to make 30 grand a year helping people. Now had I become a social worker my school debt would be erased and I'd also get a pension from the government. Instead after paying on my student loans for 20 years I owe 2o grand more than I originally owed and I get a whopping $1470 to live on every month before the $560 school loan. I can do whatever I want with the other $910. I can eat and live indoors if I keep my expenses including food, rent, insurance, clothing, medicine, car, fuel etc to below $30/day. Makes 51 years of working seem well worth the effort.
TAX THE RICH $
More and more like the USSR every day