PENSIONS see also Social Security Act

Amendments

Bankruptcy judges and magistrates: retirement and survivors' annuities (S. 1630), 3147, 3181 [3MR]

CIA: appropriations for retirement and disability (H.R. 4387), 12500, 12502, 12503, 12504, 12527, 12528 [26MY]

———appropriations for retirement and disability (S. 2366), 20738, 20747 [5AU]

Analyses

Pension Benefit Protection Act (S. 2700), 21246 [9AU]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 4387, appropriations for CIA pension and disability benefits, 20753 [5AU], 21687 [10AU]

———S. 1630, Retirement and Survivors' Annuities for Bankruptcy judges and Magistrates Act, 17780 [12JY]

Articles and editorials

Lawmakers Resist Costly Correction—``Notch Baby'' Dilemma a Legacy of Quirk in Social Security Law, 9158 [27AP]

Bills and resolutions

Annuities: basis recovery under governmental plans (see H.R. 5100)

Armed Forces: military survivor annuity for widows of certain retirement-eligible Reserve members (see H.R. 4196)

Bankruptcy judges: retirement (see S. 2601; H.R. 4340)

Budget: calculating maximum deficit amounts and studies relative to retirement taxes (see H.R. 5227)

CIA: appropriations for retirement and disability benefits (see S. 2366; H.R. 4387)

Civil Service Retirement System: interest on delayed initial payments (see S. 2695)

Clergy: include parsonage allowance in pension determination (see H.R. 4779)

Earning tests: phase out (see S. 2766; H.R. 3934, 4104)

Employee Benefit Standards in Government Contracting Act: enact (see H.R. 5349)

Employer Reversion Moratorium Act: enact (see S. 2284: H.R. 4111)

ERISA: technical corrections (see H.R. 4845)

Federal employees: early delivery of civil service and other retirement pay benefits (see H.R. 4966)

———expedite the processing of applications for retirement benefits (see H.R. 4958)

———payment of interest on retirement benefits which are received late (see S. 2695; H.R. 4361)

Federal Employees' Retirement System Act: amend (see S. 2188, 2194; H.R. 4070)

Federal judges: retirement (see S. 2601; H.R. 4340)

National Guard: defer discharge of an officer that has reached 64 years of age (see H.R. 5222)

———relief from certain inequities in the crediting of technician service relative to civil service retirement (see S. 2907; H.R. 5075)

Pension Benefit Protection Act: enact (see S. 2700)

Pension Portability Act: enact (see S. 2343)

Public safety officers: exemption from early withdrawal tax on pension distributions (see S. 2082)

Railroad Retirement Boards: early delivery of retirement pay benefits (see H.R. 4884, 4965)

———ensuring benefits paid out of the dual benefits payments account are not reduced (see S. 2083; H.R. 4450)

———limit increases in medicare premiums to cost-of-living increases in annuity (see H.R. 4885)

———removal of trust funds (see S. 2048)

Retirement Check Delivery Assurance Act: enact (see S. 2277)

Social Security: improvements in the old-age, survivors, disability insurance and SSI programs (see S. 2755; H.R. 5250, 5335)

———outside income limitation (see H.R. 4412, 4892)

———reconciliation of discrepant earnings records and restrictions against reduction of benefits (see H.R. 4018)

Taxation: early distribution from qualified retirement plans (see H.R. 5542)

———exempt certain plans for law enforcement officers and fire fighters from certain tax reform rules (see H.R. 5256)

———funding of retiree health plans (see S. 2784)

———prohibit State income tax on the pension income of nonresident individuals (see S. 2820; H.R. 5276)

———repeal restrictions on retirement savings deductions and allow a deduction for retirement savings for a nonworking spouse (see S. 2341)

———State retirement plans (see S. 2652)

Veterans: early delivery of retirement pay benefits (see H.R. 4963)

———eligibility for concurrent disability and retirement compensation (see S. 2808)

———elimination of offset between disability compensation and military retirement pay (see S. 2120)

———index disability compensation and surviving spouses' and children's dependency and indemnity compensation to cost of living (see S. 2267)

———limitation of payment to those under VA hospital care on a long-term basis (see H.R. 5235)

———net worth limitation applicable to the receipt of pension (see H.R. 4246)

———prorating of compensation and pension (see H.R. 3852)

———protect benefits of those involved in agent orange product liability litigation (see H.R. 4479)

Veterans' Vocational Training Continuation Act: enact (see S. 2459)

Explanations

Modifications to Senate Committee on Finance amendment to Tax Reform Act (S. 2238), 29732-29734 [11OC]

Retirement for bankruptcy judges and U.S. magistrates (H.R. 4340), 17420 [11JY]

Factsheets

Veterans Rate of Compensation and Dependency and Indemnity Compensation Under H.R. 4741, 18824 [26JY]

Letters

Estimated tax on retirement income: IRS, 6192 [31MR]

———several Senators, 6192 [31MR]

Protection of LTV Steel Co.'s retiree health benefits: Dick Warden, 11931 [23MY]

———John Burry, Jr., Blue Cross and Blue Shield, 12699 [26MY]

———John J. Sheehan, 11931 [23MY]

———Robert M. McGlotten, 11931 [23MY]

Reversion of pension assets: Ann McLaughlin, Sec. of Labor, 18664 [26JY]

Social Security benefits inequity: Representative de la Garza, 18538 [14JY]

Memorials of legislature

Alabama, 6343 [11AP]

Alaska, 8372 [21AP]

California, 3164 [3MR]

Kentucky, 6786 [13AP]

Louisiana, 19757 [1AU]

Minnesota, 9155 [27AP], 11338 [17MY]

Pennsylvania, 25 [25JA]

Messages

Railroad Retirement Board Report: President Reagan, 32550 [21OC]

Motions

Retirement and Survivors' Annuities for Bankruptcy Judges and Magistrates Act (H.R. 4340), S. 1630 passed in lieu, 17422 [11JY]

Petitions

Cost of living adjustment for retirees: Suffolk County, NY, Legislature, 199 [27JA]

Portugal suspension of pension: Fernando Carreiro, 25024 [22SE]

Remarks in House

Armed Forces: compensation for disabled veterans concurrent with retirement pension (H.R. 303), 8431 [21AP], 26825 [29SE]

Bankruptcy judges and magistrates: retirement and survivors' annuities (S. 1630), conference report, 31960 [19OC]

Benefits: treatment of claims for certain (H.R. 2969), 1684 [17FE], 11928 [23MY], 11932, 11933 [23MY], 13198 [1JN]

Budget: calculating maximum deficit amounts and studies relative to retirement taxes (H.R. 5227), 22357 [11AU]

CIA: appropriations for retirement and disability bernefits (H.R. 4387), 10653 [12MY], 12491, 12527, 12528 [26MY]

———appropriations for retirement and disability benefits (H.R. 4387), appointment of conferees, 21687 [10AU]

———appropriations for retirement and disability benefits (H.R. 4387), conference report, 22117 [11AU], 23804-23806 [14SE]

Clergy: include parsonage allowance in pension determination (H.R. 4779), 13918 [9JN]

Dept. of Defense: inequities in the crediting of National Guard technician service relative to civil service retirement (H.R. 5075), 18552 [14JY]

Employee Benefit Standards in Government Contracting Act: enact (H.R. 5349), 25266 [23SE]

Employers: moratorium on reversions of assets of terminated plans (H.R. 4111), 3618 [9MR]

ERISA: technical corrections (H.R. 4845), 15034 [16JN]

Federal employees: early delivery of civil service and other retirement pay benefits (H.R. 4966), 16621 [30JN]

———early delivery of retirement pay benefits (H.R. 4963), 16621 [30JN]

———expedite the processing of applications for retirement benefits (H.R. 4958), 16616 [30JN]

———payment of interest on retirement benefits which are received late (H.R. 4361), 6510 [12AP]

———retirement pay, 575 [2FE]

Federal Employees' Retirement System Act: amend (S. 2188), 15258 [20JN]

——amend (H.R. 4070), 3009 [2MR]

Federal Mine Safety and Health Act: early delivery of pay benefits (H.R. 4964), 16621 [30JN]

Health trusts: guarantees on deposited loans, 32401 [20OC]

Phoenix Indian High School: service credit, 19144 [27JY]

Postal Service: early delivery of retirement pay benefits (H.R. 4963), 16621 [30JN]

Railroads: early delivery of retirement benefits (H.R. 4884), 15488 [21JN]

———early delivery of retirement pay benefits (H.R. 4965), 16621 [30JN]

———limit increases in medicare premiums to cost of living increases in annuity (H.R. 4885), 15488 [21JN]

Retiree Benefits Bankruptcy Protection Act: enact (H.R. 2969), 13198 [1JN]

Retirement and Survivors' Annuities for Bankruptcy Judges and Magistrates Act: enact (S. 1630), appointment of conferees, 17780 [12JY]

———enact (H.R. 4340), 17416-17421 [11JY]

Social Security: computation rule application to workers attaining age 65 in or after 1982, 7519 [19AP], 13658 [7JN], 22928 [8SE]

———improvements in the old-age, survivors, disability insurance and SSI programs (H.R. 5335), 28271 [4OC]

———protection of trust funds, 32391 [20OC]

———reconciliation of discrepant earnings records and restrictions against reduction of benefits (H.R. 4018), 2553 [25FE]

———remove limitations on amount of outside income an individual may earn while receiving benefits (H.R. 4412), 7530 [19AP]

Taxation: defined benefit plan reversions, 23407 [9SE]

———repeal penalty for early withdrawal from retirement accounts, 33441 [21OC]

Unfunded plans: guarantees on deposited loans, 32401 [20OC]

Veterans: early delivery of retirement pay benefits (H.R. 4963), 16621 [30JN]

———limitation of payment of pension to those under VA hospital care on a long-term basis (H.R. 5235), 22390 [11AU]

Wisconsin: Allis-Chalmers Co. pensions, 1684 [17FE]

Remarks in Senate

Bankruptcy judges and magistrates: retirement and survivors' annuities (S. 1630), 3145 [3MR], 29527 [7OC]

———retirement and survivors' annuities (S. 1630), motion to agree to the conference that the House requested, 23555 [13SE]

Benefits: treatment of claims for certain (H.R. 2969), 12696-12700 [26MY], 12852 [27MY]

———treatment of claims for certain (H.R. 2969), correction, 13049 [27MY]

Business: pension asset reversions, 18661-18664 [26JY]

CIA: retirement and disability benefits appropriations (H.R. 4387), 20750-20753 [5AU]

———retirement and disability benefits appropriations (H.R. 4387), conference report, 23897 [15SE]

———retirement and disability benefits appropriations (S. 2366), 20747 [5AU], 20751 [11AU]-20753 [5AU]

Education: individual education/retirement savings account for youth, 21879 [11AU]

Employer Reversion Moratorium Act: enact (S. 2284), 6939 [14AP]

Federal employees: interest on delayed initial payments (S. 2695), 20723 [5AU]

———retirement applications processing (S. 2469), 16061 [27JN]

———retirement system, 1570 [17FE]

Federal Employees' Retirement System Act: amend (S. 2188), 4332 [17MR], 16183 [28JN]

———amend (S. 2194), 4437 [18MR]

Federal judges: retirement (S. 2601), 16375 [29JN]

National Guard: relief from certain inequities in the crediting of technician service relative to civil service retirement (S. 2907), 31542 [18OC]

Pension Benefit Protection Act: enact (S. 2700), 21246 [9AU]

Pension Portability Act: enact (S. 2343), 9366 [28AP]

Public safety officers: exemption from early withdrawal tax on pension distributions (S. 2082), 2315 [23FE]

Railroads: dual benefits payments (S. 2083), 2316 [23FE]

———removal of trust funds (S. 2048), 1114 [4FE]

Retiree Health Protection and Long-Term Care Insurance Act: enact (S. 1739), 14044 [9JN]

Retirement Check Delivery Assurance Act: enact (S. 2277), 6585 [13AP]

Social Security: beneficial insurance program, 27356 [3OC]

———budget surplus, 7101 [18AP]

———exclude surplus from definition of the Federal budget deficit, 6395-6421 [12AP]

———improvements in the old-age, survivors, disability insurance and SSI programs (S. 2755), 22465 [7SE]

———period of transition and formula relative to workers born in years after 1916 and before 1930 (S. 1830), 6430 [12AP]

———phase out earnings test for those of retirement age (S. 2766), 23143 [9SE]

———reductions in medicare benefits, 2684 [29FE]

Taxation: credit for contributions to long-term health care savings accounts (S. 1922), 14044 [9JN]

———exclude from gross income amounts withdrawn from Individual Retirement plans for payment of long-term care insurance premiums (S. 1832), 14044 [9JN]

———funding of retiree health plans (S. 2784), 23536 [13SE]

———pension plans, 29709 [11OC]

———repeal restrictions on retirement savings deductions and allow a deduction for retirement savings for a nonworking spouse (S. 2341), 9363 [28AP]

———retirement income, 6191 [31MR]

———retirement plans, 29709 [11OC]

———State retirement plans (S. 2652), 18625 [25JY]

———State taxation of non-residents (S. 2820), 24820 [22SE]

———treatment of certain family services providers, 29768 [11OC]

Veterans: eligibility for concurrent disability and retirement compensation (S. 2808), 24445 [19SE]

———elimination of offset between disability compensation and military retirement pay (S. 2120), 2871 [2MR]

———increasing dependency and indemnity compensation rates to those with service-connected disabilities (H.R. 4741), 31411-31454 [18OC]

———index disability compensation and surviving spouses' and children's dependency and indemnity compensation to cost of living (S. 2267), 6301 [11AP]

Veterans' Vocational Training Continuation Act: enact (S. 2459), 13009 [27MY]

Reports

Bankruptcy Judges and Magistrates Retirement and Survivors' Annuities: Committee on the Judiciary (S. 1630) (excerpt), 3146 [3MR]

Reports by conference committees

Bankruptcy Judges and Magistrates Retirement and Survivors' Annuities (S. 1630), 29669-29674 [11OC]

Reports filed

CIA Retirement and Disability Benefits: committee of conference (H.R. 4387) (H. Rept. 100-879), 22304 [11AU]

———(H.R. 4387) (H. Rept. 100-591), 11337 [17MY]

———Committee on Intelligence (Select) (S. 2366) (S. Rept. 100-334), 10462 [11MY]

Bankruptcy Judges and U.S. Magistrates Pensions: Committee on the Judiciary (H.R. 4330) (H. Rept. 100-638), 11752 [19MY]

———Committee on the Judiciary (S. 1630) (S. Rept. 100-293), 2670 [29FE]

———committee of conference (S. 1630) (H. Rept. 100-1072), 29693 [11OC]

ERISA Technical Corrections: Committee on Education and Labor (H.R. 4845) (H. Rept. 100-801), 28242 [4OC]

———Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 4845) (H. Rept. 100-801), 19226 [27JY]

Federal Employees' Retirement System Act Amendment: Committee on Governmental Affairs (S. 2188), 12716 [26MY]

Improve Retirement Income System: Committee on Education and Labor (H.R. 1961) (H. Rept. 100-676), 13517 [7JN]

Veterans Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (H.R. 4741) (H. Rept. 100-760), 17106 [7JY]

Resolutions by organizations

Compensation for disabled veterans concurrent with retirement pension: Uniformed Services Disabled Retirees, 26825 [29SE]

Statements

All Urban Index CPI-U for Cost of Living Formula: James T. McIntyre, 29727 [11OC]

Increase in Excise Tax on Defined Benefit Plan Reversing: American Society of Pension Actuaries and the Small Business Council of America, 23407 [9SE]

No Difference in CPI-U and CPI-W Indexes in Cost of Living Formula for Social Security: James C. Miller III, 29727 [11OC]

Retiree Benefit Protection Act: John Burry, Jr., 11933 [24MY]

Summaries

Employee Benefit Standards in Government Contracting Act (H.R. 5349), 25266 [23SE]

Tables

Civil Service separations—departments' performance records (sundry), 16618 [30JN]

Executive department retirement statistics (sundry), 13462 [6JN]

Federal deficit and Social Security trust funds, 6398, 6402, 6405 [12AP]

Testimonies

Reversion of Pension Assets: Jean Bush, 18662 [26JY]

Social Security Notch Problem: Representative Bilirakis, 8421 [21AP]

———Representative Daub, 6972 [14AP]

———Representative Gilman, 7519 [19AP]

Texts of

H. Res. 456, consideration of H.R. 4387, CIA retirement and disability benefits, 12491 [26MY]

H.R. 2969, Retiree Benefits Bankruptcy Protection Act, 11928, 11929 [23MY], 12696 [26MY]

H.R. 4340, Retirement and Survivors' Annuities for Bankruptcy Judges and Magistrates Act, 17416-17419 [11JY]

H.R. 4387, authorizing appropriations for CIA retirement and disability benefits, 12501 [26MY], 20751-20753 [5AU]

H.R. 4779, include parsonage allowance in pension determination for members of clergy, 13919 [9JN]

S. 1630, bankruptcy judges and magistrates retirement and survivors' annuities, 3147 [3MR], 17421, 17422 [11JY]

S. 2082, exempt pensions of public safety officers from early withdrawal tax, 2316 [23FE]

S. 2188, Federal Employees' Retirement System Act, 4333 [17MR], 13488 [6JN], 15258 [20JN], 16183 [28JN]

S. 2267, index veterans' disability compensation and surviving spouses' and children's dependency and indemnity compensation to cost of living, 6301 [11AP]

S. 2284, Employer Reversion Moratorium Act, 6940 [14AP]

S. 2343, Pension Portability Act, 9366-9372 [28AP]

S. 2459, Veterans' Vocational Training Continuation Act, 13009 [27MY]

S. 2601, retirement of Federal judges, 16375 [29JN]

S. 2652, taxation of State retirement benefits, 18625 [25JY]

S. 2684, Social Security's personal earnings and benefit statements, 20590 [4AU]

S. 2700, Pension Benefit Protection Act, 21246 [9AU]

S. 2766, phase out Social Security earnings test for those of retirement age, 23144 [9SE]

S. 2784, tax treatment of funding of retiree health plans, 23537 [13SE]

S. 2907, relief from certain inequities in the crediting of National Guard technician service relative to civil service retirement, 31542 [18OC]