3.0.0 960 2023-01-11T13:27:23Z 2023-01-11T13:27:23Z Senate S 2015-04-15 114 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2015-04-15T21:52:08Z Protecting and Preserving Social Security Act 114 1811 HR 2015-11-16 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. Identical bill CRS Safeguarding American Families and Expanding Social Security Act of 2015 114 1940 S 2015-08-05 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Related bill CRS Strengthening Social Security Act of 2016 114 5952 HR 2016-09-12 Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security. Related bill CRS 2015-04-15 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2015-04-15 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H001042 Sen. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI] Mazie Hirono D HI K. N M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR 2015-10-19 False Social Welfare Census and government statistics Inflation and prices Self-employed Social security and elderly assistance Wages and earnings Social Welfare 00 2015-04-15 Introduced in Senate 2015-05-07T15:39:23Z Protecting and Preserving Social Security Act

Directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor to prepare and publish for each calendar month a Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers (CPI-EC) that indicates changes over time in consumption expenditures typical for individuals in the United States age 62 or older.

Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSAct) to make the CPI-EC the applicable Consumer Price Index for computation of cost-of-living increases in OASDI benefits for such individuals.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prescribe special rules for the determination of wages and self-employment income above the contribution and benefit base after 2015.

Amends SSAct title II to include surplus average indexed monthly earnings in the determination of primary OASDI amounts.

]]> Protecting and Preserving Social Security Act Display Title Protecting and Preserving Social Security Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make improvements in the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program, and to provide for Social Security benefit protection. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Protecting and Preserving Social Security Act Introduced in Senate 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s960is/xml/BILLS-114s960is.xml 2015-04-15 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.