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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><strong>COVID-19 Emergency Social Security Cost of Living Increase Act of 2020</strong></p> <p>This bill changes the methods used to determine annual increases to Social Security benefits and provides an emergency cost-of-living increase of at least 3% to beneficiaries beginning in November 2020.<br /></p>]]></text>
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      <text>Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.</text>
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