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<title>Social Security 2100 Act</title>
<summary summary-id="id113hr5306v00" currentChamber="HOUSE" update-date="2014-10-23">
<action-date>2014-07-31</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in House</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p>Social Security 2100 Act - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to:</p> <ul> <li>increase the primary insurance amount formula factor from 90% to 93% for all eligible beneficiaries, beginning in 2015;</li> <li>revise computation of cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) to use the Consumer Price Index for Elderly Consumers (CPI-E);</li> <li>increase the special minimum primary insurance amount (25% above the federal poverty line) for lifetime low earners based on years in the workforce.</li> </ul> <p>Amends the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to increase the gross income threshold for taxation of Social Security benefits from $25,000 to $50,000 for single taxpayers and from $32,000 to $100,000 for married taxpayers filing joint returns, beginning in 2015.</p> <p>Amends the IRC and SSA title II to impose the employment tax on all wage income above $400,000, effective in 2015. Requires incremental increases, up to 14.4% in 2037, in the employment and self-employment taxes.</p> <p>Amends SSA title II to include 2% of an individual's excess average indexed monthly earnings (over $400,000 per annum) in the formula for determining primary insurance amounts.</p> <p>Amends IRC to increase the Social Security tax rate on employees and employers and with respect to self-employment income. </p> <p>Amends SSA title II to establish an Independent Social Security Investment Oversight Board to:</p> <ul> <li>set up a Common Stock Old-Age Investment Fund in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and a Common Stock Disability Investment Fund in the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and</li> <li>prescibe rules for the investment of the Common Stock Investment Funds in common stock.</li> </ul> <p>Requires reallocation of a portion of employment tax revenues from the OASDI Trust Fund to the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund for wages paid after 2014.</p>]]></summary-text>
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