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        <fullName>Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]</fullName>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Encourage Initiative and Promote Self-Esteem Act of 2008 - Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act to establish special rules for benefits based on waxing and waning medical conditions in qualified disabled individuals. </p>]]></text>
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        <title>To amend titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act to provide for equitable treatment of disability beneficiaries with waxing and waning medical conditions by establishing, through the implementation of a sliding scale of benefits based on income, a system under which higher incomes result in lower benefits and lower incomes result in higher benefits, and work is incentivized by allowing greater total monthly income when working than could be provided by work or benefits alone.</title>
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