What's Next After Biden Signs The Social Security Fairness Act?

More money? What Will Biden's Signing Of The Social Security Fairness Act Mean For You?

[larrymixer]

The quickest way to fix Social Security and Medicare is to make all of our Federal Senators and Representatives to pay in and get these benefits the same as the people that they are making decisions for. You can bet that these benefits would be a lot better for you and I, than they are now. It is obscene what they get for benefits from the tax base on top of the pay they draw and benefits they get after as little as four years of work. Things need to change, the sooner the better.

[donnapetras]

I was a state employee who paid fully into social security and into the state pension. My SS benefit was reduced because I also had a state pension, even though I paid fully into both. This is true of many state employees.

[marred]

Anyone that puts their live on the line to protect me and my family, or take the abuse of the school system for the petty pay checks just to give our children the tools needed to succeed in life, deserve this and I fully support it for them!!!

[jabs]

ITS NOT ABOUT FAIRNESS, GO AFTER THE FRUAD . WE WILL HAVE TONS OF MONEY FOR FAIR PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY EARNED IT

[stevec]

I was a firefighter for 37 years so I paid into a pension system, but for most of that time I had a second job so I also paid into SS. Even now in retirement I still work so I’m still paying SS. This legislation will only give me a small amount based on what I paid in. Also my wife worked for 40 years paying into SS. Why in the world should she be penalized if I die? This act absolutely corrected and unfair provision.

[danwoebkenberg]

What's unfair about people who paid into the Social Security system getting the retirement benefits they deserve as a result of making those payments?

[arne]

That law WEP in my case discriminated against anyone that happened to work in government like civil service, while everyone else with private pension plus SS was not affected.

[wiseasha]

People don’t get it. We haven’t been getting our rightful share for many years. I’m out 200k.

[kenpogodan]

This guy is misrepresenting the issue. He didn't mention that people who earned enough for social security and also had a private pension collect their full social security along with their private pension. That isn't the case for government employees with a government pension who only collect a fraction of the social security they earned because of the windfall elimination act. So repealing the act brings qualified government employees on par with those who worked in private businesses and who collect 100%of the social security they earned.

[CarolynMesser]

He needs to to help the low poverty income for seniors who are not able to work

[kennyray]

I paid into my pension and I paid in to social security. So how is it fair that I that I only get to collect a small portion of my social security and none of my wife’s social security if she dies.

[Susanella-bmrn]

The hard part is, the SS cost of living doesn’t even being to come near the actual cost of living increases.

[thomasking]

Bottom line. If you pay into the system, you should get the benefit same as anyone else.

[musicg]

Why can't a teacher in Kentucky who works for 27 years as a state worker but 30 years paying into Social Security get the benefit of both jobs? Why can't they claim a spouses benefit that payed into S.S. for 60 years? BS. It's not a windfall!

[HappyGoLucky]

If you loaned somebody 125, 000$, over the course of 35 years, and they promised to pay you back in monthly installments of a 1000$(use this number for simplicity)...and when its time for them to start paying back, the check arrives and its for 550$, instead of a 1000$, you would feel like you were taken advantage of too

[pperdion]

My wife, worked twenty years as a teachers aid, and not paying into social security, and gets 900 dollars a month pension. She also worked as a nurses aid for about 20 years and was supposed to get about 1000 dollars a month from social security. They took about 400 from her and she only gets 600 a month. She worked 40 years for a total of 1500 a month. They would also penalize her as a widower

[pamelamccoy]

Those who are against ending WEP are just jealous, plain and simple. They whine about money running out 6 months early. I lost half of my social security for almost 12 years. So I don't care about these pro WEP seniors whining, not one bit. We worked and earned our full social security just like you did.

[shirleymathews]

I just found you and I learned so much more than I have in years. I am a 82 year-old great grandma and I appreciate the way you talk and explain things because some days I have a bad days, but it was very good today and I appreciate it and I’ll be watching you in the future. Thank you.

[davehefterich]

If I paid in for 20+ years, why shouldn't I get the full amount I'm due, regardless of who else I worked for??

[dalewatkins]

More people would understand it if they paid into Soc Sec for 10 to 20+ years, looked that what Soc. Sec said their benefits would be, and only got 40 percent of that amount every month after they retired.