[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 21 (Wednesday, March 1, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H579]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        SOCIAL SECURITY EARNINGS LIMIT PUNISHES SENIOR CITIZENS

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, today I want to talk about Meredith T. 
Jones. She is one of 48,000 Georgians who has found out that being 65 
is not as old as she thought it was. She has great health, she has 
great energy and enthusiasm, particularly with the kids out of the 
house. So she wants to go to work.
  Miss Jones gets a job, feeling good about it, and then comes the IRS. 
And she has found, like so many other senior citizens, that because she 
is over 65 that she will lose $1 in Social Security benefits for every 
$3 she earns.
  Yet, if she works, she is healthier, she is happier, she is more 
independent. But the IRS does not recognize that and wants to penalize 
Miss Jones and 48,000 other Georgia seniors because they are working.

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  The Social Security earnings limitation is unfair. It hurts seniors. 
Republicans have a plan to restore fairness and provide relief for 
seniors so that they can earn a good living and enjoy productive 
retirement years without being penalized by the IRS. Mr. Speaker, we 
need to pass the Social Security earnings limitation.

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