COMMENTS ON PENDING BILLS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89-00066R000900110005-9
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2011
• Sequence Number: 5
• Content Type: REGULATION

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CC +1E TS CN PENDING BILLS
HR j 0 It would extend widows/widowers benefits to people from age
50 - 62.
This would obviously benefit some Federal employees and their
families, as well as many others.
The cost would be enormous sQ this provision is almost
certainly not going to become law, especially since it makes
little sense. After all, why should someone in their 50's,
not disabled, without small children, receive government
payments?
2. HR 159 It would extend disabled widows/widowers benefits to
group, rather than just to those
law.
This also would obviously benefit some Federal employees and
their families, as well as others.
This bill makes more sense than HR 160, but it also would be
extremely expensive and therefore probably won't pass.
3. HR 158 This bill, referred to as "The Social Security Modernization
Act" would combine and split evenly husband/wife earnings
during the course of a marriage. It would phase out various
types of benefits, such as those for non-working spouses,
because such spouses would become eligible for benefits in
their own right due to the earnings credited to them.
This bill could have an effect on benefits paid to employees,
but not for many years, due to the phase-in provisions.
A close look at the way records would be kept under this
provision might be needed later.
The sort of plan worked out in this bill has been discussed
for years. It may well pass this year or in the near future.
It is not a costly bill and it is perceived as adding fairness
to the system.
4. HR 157 This would give child care credit for up to 10 years in order
to help some people meet the eligibility requirements for the
special minimum benefit.
Although this may well pass, as other child care provisions
have already been implemented, its effect on Federal employees
in most cases,*would be nil.
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