Lawmakers are moving ahead with a bipartisan bill that would provide enhanced Social Security benefits to millions of Americans, but hurdles remain.
A House-passed bill that would expand Social Security benefits to millions of Americans just got a lifeline in the Senate.Senate Majority Chuck Schumer said Thursday he would start the process for a final vote on the Social Security Fairness Act, which would get rid of two federal policies that keep a portion of Americans from getting their full Social Security benefits, including cops, fire fighters and teachers.
'I've been working at the league 25 years, and I don't remember ever not having a version,' Shannon Benton executive director of The Senior Citizens League, or TSCL, an advocacy group devoted to protecting retirement benefits, said of the proposal, which the league supports. 'We're guardedly optimistic,' she told CBS MoneyWatch earlier in the month.
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