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HR 1114 115th Congress House Social Welfare Aging Employment taxes Government trust funds Inflation and prices Interest, dividends, interest rates Self-employed Social security and elderly assistance Wages and earnings

Social Security Expansion Act

Introduced: May 23, 2018 See on congress.gov
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Mar 1, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
Feb 16, 2017
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Feb 16, 2017
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Social Security Expansion Act

This bill amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to: (1) increase the primary insurance amount for all eligible beneficiaries, beginning in 2023; (2) revise computation of cost-of-living adjustments to use the Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers; and (3) increase the special minimum primary insurance amount for lifetime low earners based on years in the workforce.

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) apply employment and self-employment taxes to remuneration up to the contribution and benefit base and to remuneration in excess of $250,000, and (2) increase the tax rate on investment gain from 3.8% to 10% and allocate specifed amounts of such tax revenue to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund.

What's happening now March 1, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 1114: Social Security Expansion Act. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1114/
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"H.R. 1114: Social Security Expansion Act." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1114/.
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H.R. 1114, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-1114/.
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