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S 1523 107th Congress Senate Social Welfare Civil Service pensions Families Fathers Government Operations and Politics Labor and Employment Married people Mothers Old age, survivors and disability insurance Social security beneficiaries Widowers Widows Women

Social Security Fairness Act of 2001

Introduced: October 10, 2001 See on congress.gov
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Oct 10, 2001
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Oct 10, 2001
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10459)
Oct 10, 2001
Introduced in Senate
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Social Security Fairness Act of 2001 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to repeal: (1) pension offset provisions applicable to husband's and wife's insurance benefits, widow's and widower's insurance benefits, and mother's and father's insurance benefits with respect to Old-Age and Survivors insurance benefit payments; and (2) windfall elimination provisions with respect to computation of the primary insurance amount of an individual.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
All 2 Democratic 1 Republican 1
D
Durbin, Richard J.
Illinois · Jun 26, 2002
 R
Collins, Susan M.
Maine · Nov 7, 2001
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1523: Social Security Fairness Act of 2001. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-S-1523/
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"S. 1523: Social Security Fairness Act of 2001." 107th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/107-S-1523/.
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S. 1523, 107th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/107-S-1523/.
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