PENSIONS see also Social Security Act

Advertisements

We Were on Our Way, 29744 [17NO]

Analyses

Amendment to the Budget Resolution To Begin a Phaseout of the Social Security Retirement Earnings Test, 8276 [4MY]

Federal Employees Retirement Benefits for Spouses (H.R. 1377), 4041 [13MR]

Roth-Armstrong-Wilson Social Security Benefits Amendment Relative to Day Care, 12666 [21JN]

Social Security Services Improvement Act (H.R. 1353), 3999 [9MR]

Articles and editorials

Benefits Ease Path of Congressional Retirees—Generosity for Departing Lawmakers Based on Special Rules, 1810 [7FE], 29694 [17NO]

Budget-Cut Burden Falling on Military Retirees, Widows, 5792 [6AP]

Congress To Become Pension Millionaires Club If Pay Raise Approved, Says NTU, 29697 [17NO]

Cutting COLA's, 2433 [22FE]

Dollars and Sense of Military Retirement, 15962 [24JY]

Individual Retirement Accounts, 26960 [2NO]

Justice Denied—Restore Oliver North's Pension, 27026 [2NO]

Let's Stop Picking the Pockets of America's Elderly, 6100 [12AP]

Muttering in Tokyo Over Reagans' Tour—Ex-President Being Paid $2 Million by Media Giant, 24567 [13OC]

Recruiting Reagan, 24567 [13OC]

Social Security Monthly Earnings Test Limits, 6099 [12AP]

Social Security Retirement Test, 13007 [22JN]

Social Security—A Father's Worry, 9424 [16MY]

Stop Gouging the Elderly, 6100 [12AP]

Bills and resolutions

Air Force: civil service retirement credit for certain employees and former employees (see H.R. 3810)

Aliens: tax treatment of Social Security and railroad retirement benefits for certain (see H.R. 387)

Armed Forces: children ineligible for survivor annuities or other benefits due to marriage, may qualify if such marriage is terminated (see H.R. 2101)

———cost of living adjustments for certain individuals (see H.R. 1491)

———Federal retirement credits for Cadet Nurse Corps trainees during World War II (see H.R. 3280)

———retirement payments to certain former spouses of members (see H.R. 3776)

———status of individual retirement pay relative to crime conviction (see H.R. 3604)

———survivor annuity for widows of certain retirement-eligible reserve members (see H.R. 1498)

Benefits: early delivery of certain checks (see S. 1806; H.R. 2225)

Budget: exclude civil service retirement and disability fund (see H.R. 1394)

Bureau of the Census: exclude wages from temporary positions from Social Security earnings test determinations (see H.R. 2857)

Capitol Police: age and service requirements relative to retirement (see H.R. 3142)

Civil Service Retirement System: authorize benefits (see S. 1231)

Coal miners: transfer pension funds to health benefit fund (see S. 1708; H.R. 3413)

COLA Equity Act: enact (see S. 416)

Consumer Price Index: determining cost of living increases (see S. 864)

Court of Veterans Appeals: retirement and survivor benefit program for judges (see S. 1243; H.R. 2727)

Economic Equity Act: enact (see S. 1480)

Employee Pension Protection Act: enact (see S. 685)

ERISA: amend (see H.R. 2794)

———amend title I (see H.R. 2563)

Excessive Churning and Speculation Act: enact (see S. 1654)

Federal employees: civil service retirement credit for periods of certain service under Federal-State cooperative programs (see H.R. 3129)

———children ineligible for survivor annuities or other benefits due to marriage, may qualify if such marriage is terminated (see H.R. 2101)

———cost of living adjustments (see H.R. 1074)

———coverage under retirement system (see S. 1108; H.R. 2538)

———early payment of benefit checks (see H.R. 523, 2225)

———expedite processing of retirement benefit applications (see H.R. 472; 1059)

———extend certain civil service retirement provisions to INS, Customs Service, and IRS law enforcement officers (see S. 513; H.R. 1083)

———extend health insurance and survivor annuity benefits to former spouses (see H.R. 1399)

———prohibit Federal Asset Disposition Association from paying severance pay in excess of certain civil service amounts (see S. 245)

———retirement benefits for spouses relative to individuals who marry after they retire (see H.R. 1377)

———retirement contributions (see H.R. 1784)

———retirement eligibility when affected by military installation closure or realignment (see H.R. 2898)

———thrift fund investment contributions (see H.R. 2514)

———treatment of retirement funded programs (see H. Con. Res. 98)

Federal Retirees' Fairness Act: enact (see S. 417)

Former Presidents: monetary allowances (see H.R. 226)

Government contractors: employees pension and health benefits (see H.R. 43)

Health insurance: continuation of certain policies to disabled individuals at time of employment termination (see H.R. 2308, 2309, 2310)

———extend compulsory OASDI and medicare coverage to State and local government employees hired after December 31, 1989, not subject to any retirement system (see S. 210)

Income: congressional, executive, and judicial salaries and pensions (see H.R. 533)

Individual retirement accounts: allow penalty-free withdrawals for repair of residences (see H.R. 3638)

———deduction for contributions (see H.R. 386; H.R. 3678)

Judicial Survivor's Annuity Act: restriction regarding time served on the bench (see S. 293)

Labor Management Relations Act: employer payments to employee trust fund (see S. 1099)

Law enforcement officers: determination of survivor annuity requirements (see H.R. 3400)

Merchant marine: retirement pay for certain individuals who served during or immediately after World War II (see H.R. 1436, 1932)

Merged and consolidated plans: maintenance of participation and rights of beneficiaries (see H.R. 3249)

Military Survivor Benefit Improvement Act: enact (see S. 857)

Miners: early payment of benefit checks (see H.R. 521, 2225)

National Environmental Satellite and Data Information Service: retirement provisions applicable to employees engaged in hazardous occupations (see H.R. 2880)

National Guard: civil service retirement credit for technicians (see S. 1890; H.R. 1400)

National Weather Service: retirement provisions applicable to employees engaged in hazardous occupations (see H.R. 2880)

Plans: amend provisions relative to integration participation and vesting requirements (see H.R. 3306)

Postal Service: early delivery of benefit payments when there is no mail delivered on regular date (see H.R. 2225)

———treat uniformed inspectors as law enforcement officers for retirement purposes (see H.R. 1632)

Railroad Retirement Board: budget treatment of retirement benefits (see H. Con. Res. 220)

———change benefit eligibility requirements (see H.R. 813)

———early payment of benefit checks (see H.R. 522, 2225)

Railroad Retirement Service: solvency of fund (see S. 1653)

Railroad Service Retirement Act: enact (see S. 1073)

Railroads: extension of the transfer of revenues within the retirement account (see S. 1677)

———tax treatment of benefits (see H.R. 394)

Retiree Health Benefits Preservation Act: enact (see S. 812)

Savings and Investment Incentive Act: enact (see S. 1682)

Single-employer pension plans: joint trusteeship (see H.R. 2664)

Social Security: annual report to reflect future income and disbursements from old age and disability trust funds (see H.R. 1747)

———benefit computation formula (see H.R. 164)

———budget treatment of trust fund (see H.R. 3573)

———combined earnings of a husband and wife shared for benefit purposes (see H.R. 203)

———computation formula applicable to workers attaining age 65 in or after 1982 (see S. 1917; H. Con. Res. 7, 20)

———eliminate disparity in pension benefits (see H.R. 2368)

———eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (see S. 9, 1995; H.R. 190, 2460, 2616, 3526, 3561)

———eliminate reductions in benefits of spouses and surviving spouses who are receiving certain Government pensions (see H.R. 201)

———extend certain expiring provisions and make miscellaneous improvements to certain programs (see H.R. 3730)

———graduated exemption from the public pension offset (see H.R. 3755)

———increase retirement test exempt amount (see S. 1192)

———limitation on outside income relative to the receipt of certain benefits (see H.R. 393, 2081, 2849)

———payment of benefits by Dept. of the Treasury in case of congressional failure to increase public debt limit (see H.R. 3547)

———pension equity (see H.R. 159)

———program improvements (see H.R. 2349)

———prohibit payment of Federal retirement benefits to those not retired as defined under the act (see H.R. 234)

———prompt payment of insurance benefits (see H.R. 3575)

———protect title II benefit levels (see S. 37)

———restore minimum benefits for future beneficiaries (see H.R. 202)

———retirement benefits (see H.R. 2348)

———tax treatment of benefits (see H.R. 394)

Social Security Notch Act: enact (see S. 1917)

Social Security Notch Adjustment Act: enact (see S. 1212)

Social Security Services Improvement Act: enact (see S. 562)

Social Security Solvency Protection Act: enact (see H.R. 3505)

States: prohibit income tax on pensions of nonresidents (see S. 434)

Taxation: 3-year basic recovery rule for annuities (see S. 105; H.R. 1279)

———basic $10,000 exemption for amounts received as annuities, pensions, or other retirement benefits (see H.R. 255)

———certain employee annuities (see H.R. 2562)

———certain retirement benefits (see H.R. 300)

———contribution credits to individual retirement plans (see H.R. 1077, 3681)

———early retirement (see H.R. 2271)

———exclude certain employees from pension minimum coverage requirements (see S. 1383)

———exclude from gross income a portion of governmental pensions relative to certain Social Security benefits (see H.R. 396, 710, 727, 1085)

———exempt retired public safety officers from the early withdrawal tax on pension distributions (see S. 1055)

———increase amount of nondeductible contributions to individual retirement accounts (see S. 1069, 1588; H.R. 3467)

———inflation adjustment of income limitations in retirement savings plans (see H.R. 3141)

———postretirement and long-term health care benefits provided by pension plans (see H.R. 1865, 1866)

———Social Security and certain railroad retirement benefits (see H.R. 300)

———treatment of early distributions from qualified retirement plans (see H.R. 2385)

———treatment of Federal annuities (see H.R. 214)

———withdrawals from individual retirement plans for long-term care insurance premiums (see H.R. 2133)

Teachers: change of employment across State lines without retirement losses (see H.R. 2537)

Terminated plans: amend rules on fiduciary duties relative to certain assets (see H.R. 1661)

Thrift Investment Board: improve (see S. 1354)

Veterans: dependency and indemnity compensation relative to remarriage of a surviving spouse (see H.R. 93, 337)

———early payment of benefit checks (see H.R. 520)

———improve death and disability pension programs (see H.R. 2011)

———increase the amount of pension payable to hospitalized individuals (see H.R. 2010)

———military retired pay for nonregular service (see H.R. 2568)

———pension benefits for World War I service personnel and surviving spouses (see H.R. 342, 1598, 1918, 2013)

———pro-rating compensation and pension benefits for month in which death of veteran occurs (see H.R. 250)

———receive compensation concurrently with retired pay and without deductions from either (see H.R. 303)

———remove limitation on pensions furnished to persons under long-term hospital care (see H.R. 1334)

———revise formula for payment of dependency and indemnity compensation (see H.R. 2817)

———survivor's benefits (see H.R. 92)

———termination of allocation of military retired pay to former spouse (see H.R. 572)

Comparisons

Federal employees ex-spousal award treatment by statutes—Discrimination against the Armed Forces active and retired members: Floyd W. Kniss, 12205 [15JN]

Descriptions

Mag-Lev Guarantee Pilot Program Act (S. 1898), 29744 [17NO]

Factsheets

Increasing Social Security Retirement Test Exempt Amount (S. 1192), 11914 [15JN]

Form

Social Security benefits threatened, 24237 [12OC]

Letters

Civil Service Retirement System benefits: Constance Horner, OPM, 13108 [22JN]

———Simone R. Driscoll, 13107 [22JN]

Coal miners' retiree health benefits: Senators Mitchell and Bentsen, 31312 [21NO]

Court of Veterans Appeals: George M. White, 13131 [22JN]

———GSA, 13131 [22JN]

———Senator Cranston, 13130, 13131 [22JN]

———Senator Cranston and Representative Montgomery, 13130 [22JN]

———Senator Mikulski, 13130 [22JN]

Former Spouses Protection Act: Albert C. Willis, 15079 [18JY]

———Barry J. Doick, 15079 [18JY]

———C.R. Jackson, Noncommissioned Officers Association, 15962 [24JY]

———Dorothy Cook, 13644 [27JN]

———John D. Kite, 13644 [27JN]

———M.D. Carmody, 15079 [18JY]

———Richard A. Morgan, 15078 [18JY]

———Rosalie A. and Richard R. Curtis, 13644 [27JN]

Intelligence Services authorization: President Bush, 27642 [7NO]

Pension for Oliver L. North: A.M. Gray, 17388 [1AU]

———Beverly LaHaye, 27025 [2NO]

———Dwight Y. Upton, 27026 [2NO]

———Farres H. Upton, 27026 [2NO]

———Jack M. Austin, 27025 [2NO]

———James F. Hinchman, 17387 [1AU]

———Larry W. Rivers, 27019 [2NO]

———Phyllis Schlafly, 27025 [2NO]

———Senator Dole, 27018 [2NO]

———Senator Warner, 17388 [1AU], 27006 [2NO]

———Senators Heflin and Rudman, 18779 [4AU]

———several Senators, 27006 [2NO]

———Thomas Lizardo, 27025 [2NO]

Shared retirement benefits by ex-spouses of military personnel: Kimberley K. Power, 13869 [28JN]

———R.C. Scherer, 13869 [28JN]

Social Security benefits: J.C. Pennington, 24238 [12OC]

———James Roosevelt, 24240 [12OC]

———Ralph Galliano, 24237 [12OC]

Social Security earnings test: American Association of Retired Persons, 8277 [4MY]

———Dorcas R. Hardy, 16211 [25JY]

———Faye C. Wells, 13998 [29JN]

———John C. Rother, 5993 [11AP], 13007 [22JN]

———Martha McSteen, 5993 [11AP]

Taxation of certain post-retirement income and benefits: Coalition for Cooperative Education, 10771 [2JN]

Treatment of retired or retainer pay of certain military personnel: Margaret McSpadden, 14484 [12JY]

———Marianne S. Sickels, 14484 [12JY]

———Max E. Thompson, 14484 [12JY]

Lists

Cosponsors of H.R. 1400, Federal retirement credit for National Guard technicians, 3670 [7MR]

Hercules retirees: pension information, 16065 [25JY]

Organizations endorsing the Economic Equity Act, 17998 [2AU]

Memorandums

Armed Forces Retirement Pay of Members Convicted of an Offense, 26653-26656 [31OC]

Status and Entitlement to Retired Pay of a Naval Officer Upon Conviction of a Certain Offense: E.D. Stumbaugh, 27023 [2NO]

Memorials of legislature

California, 24682 [16OC]

Florida, 14017 [10JY], 16672 [27JY]

Hawaii, 11899 [15JN]

Illinois, 13845 [28JN]

Maryland, 9482 [17MY], 11418 [9JN]

Massachusetts, 10965 [6JN]

Michigan, 5338 [3AP]

Nevada, 11899 [15JN]

Messages

Railroad Retirement Board Annual Report: President Bush, 22565 [29SE]

Notices

Pension for Oliver L. North: Dept. of the Navy, 17388 [1AU]

Petitions

Baton Rouge, LA, Municipal Police Employees' Retirement System, 2073 [9FE], 3143 [1MR]

Older Iowans' Legislature, 28705 [14NO]

Remarks in House

Armed Forces: court-ordered spousal or former spousal payments out of retirement pay (H.R. 2277), 12205 [15JN], 13643 [27JN]

———court treatment of retired or retainer pay of certain members (H.R. 2300), 12205 [15JN], 14484 [12JY]

———Federal retirement credits for Cadet Nurse Corps trainees during World War II (H.R. 3280), 20441 [14SE]

———retirement pay of convicted members (H.R. 3595), 27927, 27938 [8NO]

———retirement payments to certain former spouses of members (H.R. 3776), 30702 [21NO]

———shared retirement benefits by ex-spouses of military personnel, 13869 [28JN]

Benefits: plans, 21538-21540, 21543, 21544 [26SE]

Budget: use of Social Security trust fund reserves to finance deficit, 24031 [11OC]

Coal miners: stabilize pension and health plans (H.R. 3413), 23880 [6OC], 24178 [12OC]

Collective bargaining: retirement benefits (H.R. 450), 225 [4JA]

Corporations: protection of pension plans in case of mergers or acquisitions, 12187 [15JN]

Court of Veterans Appeals: retirement and survivor benefit program for judges (H.R. 2727), 16965, 16969 [31JY]

Dept. of Labor: pension plan audit, 28735 [14NO]

Dept. of the Treasury: payment of benefits in case of congressional failure to increase public debt limit (H.R. 3547), 26587 [31OC]

Employee Pension Protection Act: enact (H.R. 1661), 5462 [4AP]

Employer plans: appointment of employees to board of trustees, 22190 [27SE]

———trustee boards to consist of equal representation of employees and employers, 22020-22033 [27SE]

ERISA: amend (H.R. 2794), 14000 [29JN]

———clarification, 31103, 31109 [21NO]

———part-time and temporary workers' pension and health benefits (H.R. 2563), 10804 [6JN], 11044 [7JN]

Federal employees: cost of living adjustments for retirement programs (H.R. 1074), 2603 [22FE]

———coverage under retirement system (H.R. 2538), 10733 [1JN]

———expedite processing of retirement benefits (H.R. 1059), 2557 [22FE]

———extend certain civil service retirement provisions to INS, Customs Service, and IRS law enforcement officers (H.R. 1083), 2584 [22FE]

———retirement benefits for spouses relative to individuals who marry after they retire (H.R. 1377), 4041 [13MR]

———thrift fund investment contributions (H.R. 2514), 10726 [1JN]

GAO: fund study, 29884 [17NO]

Individual retirement accounts: allow penalty-free withdrawals for repair of residences (H.R. 3638), 28286 [9NO]

———tax treatment, 21765, 21766, 21770, 21771 [27SE]

Law enforcement officers: determination of survivor annuity requirements (H.R. 3400), 23102 [3OC]

Medicare: benefits relative to deductions, premiums, railroad retirement annuities, cost of living increases (H.R. 2226), 8109 [3MY]

Merged and consolidated plans: maintenance of participation and rights of beneficiaries (H.R. 3249), 20229 [12SE]

National Guard: Federal retirement credit for technicians, 3670 [7MR]

North, Oliver L.: restore military pension, 18537 [3AU]

Plans: amend provisions relative to integration participation and vesting requirements (H.R. 3306), 21171 [20SE]

Postal Service: early delivery of benefit payments when there is no mail delivered on regular date (H.R. 2225), 8109 [3MY]

———timely delivery of civil service, railroad, military, and black lung benefit checks, 296 [19JA]

———treat uniformed inspectors as law enforcement officers for retirement purposes (H.R. 1632), 5324 [23MR]

Railroad Retirement Board: budget treatment of benefits (H. Con. Res. 220), 26893 [1NO], 29979-29981 [17NO], 30082 [17NO]

Social Security: annual report to reflect future income and disbursements from old age and disability trust funds (H.R. 1747), 5906 [10AP]

———benefit computation rules (H.R. 2707), 12792 [21JN]

———budget treatment of trust fund, 24756 [16OC], 25813 [25OC], 27926 [8NO]

———computation formula applicable to workers attaining age 65 in or after 1982 (H.R. 181), 124 [3JA], 6233 [12AP], 20420 [13SE]

———eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (H.R. 2328), 9016 [11MY], 11584-11593 [13JN], 11594 [14JN]

———eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (H.R. 190), 10262 [25MY]

———eliminate earnings test for retirement age individuals (H.R. 2460), 10087 [24MY], 10249 [25MY], 10420 [31MY], 11584 [13JN], 16964 [31JY]

———eliminate limitation on outside income (H.R. 58), 9969 [18MY]

———eliminate limitation on outside income (H.R. 955), 2167 [9FE]

———eliminate limitation on outside income (H.R. 2849), 14244 [11JY], 21751 [26SE], 21772, 22054 [27SE]

———equity (H.R. 159), 181 [3JA]

———graduated exemption from the public pension offset (H.R. 3755), 30658 [20NO]

———individual retirement accounts, 24768 [17OC], 25168 [19OC]

———phase out the retirement earnings test (H.R. 3526), 281 [19JA], 26106 [25OC]

———program improvements (H.R. 2349), 9424 [16MY]

———prompt mailing of benefit checks (H.R. 3575), 26897 [1NO]

———proration of benefits in month of death, 230 [4JA]

———remove trust funds from budget calculations, 2585 [22FE]

———retirement benefits (H.R. 2348), 9423 [16MY]

———taxing of benefits, 1883 [7FE]

———use of pension trust fund by Congress, 24177 [12OC]

Social Security Services Improvement Act: enact (H.R. 1353), 3999 [9MR]

Social Security Solvency Protection Act: enact (H.R. 3505), 25509 [23OC]

States: taxation of pension income of nonresidents (H.R. 1227), 3082 [1MR]

Taxation: contribution credits to individual retirement plans (H.R. 3681), 29590 [16NO]

———deduction for individual retirement accounts, 3846 [9MR], 26960 [2NO]

———deduction for individual retirement accounts (H.R. 956), 2175 [9FE]

———excluding portion (H.R. 1085), 2578 [22FE]

———postretirement and long-term health care benefits provided by pension plans (H.R. 1865), 7887 [2MY]

———postretirement and long-term health care benefits provided by pension plans (H.R. 1866), 7887 [2MY]

———simplified tax returns for senior citizens, 19114 [4AU]

———social security, 28178 [9NO]

———treatment of Federal annuities (H.R. 214), 182 [3JA]

———withdrawals from individual retirement plans for long-term care insurance premiums (H.R. 2133), 7485 [26AP]

Teachers: change of employment across State lines without retirement losses (H.R. 2537), 10728 [1JN]

Veterans: remove limitation on pensions furnished to persons under long-term hospital care (H.R. 1334), 13521 [27JN]

———termination of allocation of military retired pay to former spouse (H.R. 572), 12205 [15JN], 13643 [27JN], 14484 [12JY]

———widows' entitlements, 3674 [8MR]

———World War I service (H.R. 1918), 193 [4JA], 14623 [13JY], 20224 [12SE], 28340 [9NO]

Remarks in Senate

Armed Forces: retirement pay of convicted members (S. 1816), 26653 [31OC], 26991-27026 [2NO], 27149 [3NO]

Benefits: early delivery of certain checks (S. 1806), 26437 [27OC]

Budget: exclude Social Security trust funds surpluses from deficit, 7928 [3MY]

Civil Service Retirement System: authorize benefits (S. 1231), 13107 [22JN]

Coal Industry Health Benefit Stabilization Act: enact (S. 1708), 22601, 22602, 22630 [2OC], 31312, 31313 [21NO]

COLA Equity Act: enact (S. 416), 2432 [22FE]

Consumer Price Index: determining cost of living increases (S. 864), 7314 [19AP]

Court of Veterans Appeals Judges Retirement Act: enact (S. 1243), 13126, 13130, 13132 [22JN], 18463-18470 [3AU]

———enact (H.R. 2727), 18470 [3AU]

Economic Equity Act: enact (S. 1480), 17981-17983, 17999 [2AU], 18453 [3AU], 19071 [15AU]

Employee Pension Protection Act: enact (S. 685), 5398, 5448 [4AP]

Excessive Churning and Speculation Act: enact (S. 1654), 21326, 21327 [21SE]

Federal employees: coverage under retirement system (S. 1108), 10644 [1JN]

———extend certain retirement provisions (S. 513), 3488 [3MR], 10694 [1JN]

———prohibit Federal Asset Disposition Association from paying severance pay in excess of certain civil service amounts (S. 245), 991 [25JA]

Federal Judicial Center: retirement age, 22540 [29SE]

Federal Retirees' Fairness Act: enact (S. 417), 2433 [22FE]

Freedom of information: disclosure of information to participants (S. 985), 9089 [12MY]

Health insurance: extend compulsory OASDI and medicare coverage to State and local government employees hired after December 31, 1989, not subject to any retirement system (S. 210), 916 [25JA]

Individual retirement accounts: tax treatment, 25285 [19OC]

Labor Management Relations Act: employer payments to employee trust fund (S. 1099), 10634 [1JN]

Mag-Lev Guarantee Pilot Program Act: enact (S. 1898), 29742 [17NO]

Military Survivor Benefit Improvement Act: enact (S. 857), 7303 [19AP]

National Guard: treatment of inequities in crediting technician service relative to retirement (S. 1890), 29405 [16NO]

North, Oliver L.: military pension, 17386-17388, 17434 [1AU], 18776-18780 [4AU]

Presidents of the U.S., 24566 [13OC]

Railroad Retirement Service: solvency of fund (S. 1653), 21148 [20SE]

Railroad Service Retirement Act: enact (S. 1073), 9898 [18MY], 10716 [1JN]

Railroads: extension of the transfer of revenues within the retirement account (S. 1677), 22152 [27SE]

Retiree Health Benefits Preservation Act: enact (S. 812), 6726 [17AP]

Savings and Investment Incentive Act: enact (S. 1682), 22156-22159 [27SE]

Social Security: alarming mailings to senior citizens, 24236, 24242 [12OC]

———budget treatment of trust fund, 7254 [19AP], 26382 [27OC], 26964 [2NO]

———increase retirement test exemption amount (S. 1192), 8275-8280 [4MY], 11912 [15JN]

———phase out earnings test for individuals who have attained retirement age (S. 9), 502-505 [25JA]

———protect the benefit levels of individuals becoming eligible for benefits in or after 1979 (S. 184), 834 [25JA]

———retirement test benefits reduction (S. 1995), 13007-13012 [22JN], 31584 [21NO]

Social Security Notch Act: enact (S. 1917), 29774 [17NO]

Social Security Notch Adjustment Act: enact (S. 1212), 12701-12704 [21JN]

Social Security Services Improvement Act: enact (S. 562), 3971 [9MR]

Social Security Work Incentives Act: enact, 15670 [20JY]

Taxation: exclude certain employees from pension minimum coverage requirements (S. 1383), 15914 [24JY]

———exempt retired public safety officers from the early withdrawal tax on pension distributions (S. 1055), 9864 [18MY]

———increase amount of nondeductible contributions to individual retirement accounts (S. 1069), 9892-9894 [18MY]

———treatment of contributions to individual retirement plans (S. 1588), 19927-19929 [7SE], 22072 [27SE]

Thrift Investment Board: improve (S. 1354), 15275 [19JY]

Veterans: increase disability and dependency and indemnity compensations and certain other benefits (S. 13), 15935 [24JY]

Reports

Budget Reconciliation: Committee on Labor and Human Resources, 24464-24477 [12OC]

Reports filed

Amend Rules on Fiduciary Duties Relative To Assets of Terminated Pension Plans: Committee on Education and Labor (H.R. 1661) (H. Rept. 101-169), 15849 [24JY]

CIA Retirement and Disability System Appropriations: Committee on Intelligence (Select) (S. 1324) (S. Rept. 101-78), 14743 [14JY]

———Committee on Intelligence (Select) (S. 1324) (S. Rept. 101-174), 26163 [26OC]

———Committee on Intelligence (Select) (H.R. 2748) (H. Rept. 101-215), 18670 [3AU]

Court of Veterans Appeals Judges Retirement Act: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (H.R. 2727) (H. Rept. 101-189), 16563 [27JY]

———Committee on Veterans' Affairs (S. 1243) (S. Rept. 101-86), 16041 [25JY]

Extend Certain Expiring Provisions and Improve Certain Social Security Programs: Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 3730) (H. Rept. 101-379), 30116 [19NO]

Legal Issues Raised by Oliver North's Retirement Pay: Committee on the Judiciary (S. Rept. 101-178), 26645 [31OC]

Remove Limitations on Pensions Furnished to Veterans Under Long-Term Hospital Care: Committee on Veterans' Affairs (H.R. 1334) (H. Rept. 101-105), 12933 [22JN]

Resolutions by organizations

Civil service credit for National Guard: National Guard Association of the U.S., 29406 [16NO]

———Reserve Officers Association, 29406 [16NO]

Pardon for Oliver L. North: VFW, 27025 [2NO]

Statements

Intelligence Authorization Act: OMB, 27641 [7NO]

Labor Management Adjustment Board, 10635 [1JN]

Retirement Earnings Test (excerpts from several newspapers), 5992, 5993 [11AP]

———National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, 5978 [11AP]

Relief for Oliver L. North: Brendan V. Sullivan, 27020 [2NO]

———Democratic members of Committee on the Judiciary, 27019 [2NO]

———several Senators, 26996-27002 [2NO]

Social Security Administration's New 800 Telephone System—Service of Disservice: by, 11111 [7JN]

Summaries

COLA Equity Act (S. 416), 2433 [22FE]

Employee Pension Protection Act (S. 685), 5399 [4AP]

Military Survivor Benefit Improvement Act (S. 857), 7304 [19AP]

Retiree Health Benefits Preservation Act (H.R. 1865), 7888 [2MY]

Retiree Health Benefits and Pension Preservation Act (H.R. 1866), 7887 [2MY]

Social Security Notch Adjustment Act (S. 1212), 12702 [21JN]

SSI Benefits (H.R. 866), 2587 [22FE]

Tables

Elimination of Social Security retirement earnings test at normal retirement age, 9428 [16MY]

Executive departments' processing of retirement applications, 2435 [22FE], 2557 [22FE]

Social Security benefits lost in 1991, 26670 [31OC]

Social Security budget, 8158 [4MY]

Texts of

H. Con. Res. 220, budget treatment of railroad retirement benefits, 29979 [17NO]

H.R. 1074, cost of living adjustments for Federal retirement programs, 2603 [22FE]

H.R. 1085, excluding portion of pensions from taxation, 2578 [22FE]

H.R. 1334, remove limitation on pensions to furnished long-term hospital care, 13521 [27JN]

H.R. 1377, Federal employees retirement benefits for spouses relative to individuals who marry after they retire, 4041 [13MR]

H.R. 2514, protection of Federal employee pensions and enhancement of investment opportunities, 10727 [1JN]

H.R. 2537, Mobile Teachers Retirement Act, 10728 [1JN]

H.R. 2707, Social Security Notch Adjustment Act, 12792 [21JN]

H.R. 2727, Court of Veterans Appeals Judges Retirement Act, 16965-16968 [31JY]

H.R. 3400, determination of law enforcement officers' survivor annuity requirements, 23102 [3OC]

H.R. 3638, allow penalty-free withdrawals of individual retirement accounts for repair of residences, 28286 [9NO]

S. 9, phase out Social Security earnings test for individuals who have attained retirement age, 503 [25JA]

S. 184, protect Social Security benefit levels for certain individuals, 835 [25JA]

S. 190, permit service-connected disabled veterans to receive compensation concurrently with retired pay, 848 [25JA]

S. 191, permit service-connected disabled veterans to receive compensation concurrently with retired pay, 848 [25JA]

S. 210, extend compulsory OASDI and medicare coverage to State and local government employees hired after December 31, 1989, not subject to any retirement system, 916 [25JA]

S. 245, prohibit Federal Asset Disposition Association from paying severance pay in excess of certain civil service amounts, 992 [25JA]

S. 416, COLA Equity Act, 2432 [22FE]

S. 417, Federal Retirees' Fairness Act, 2434-2435 [22FE]

S. 562, Social Security Services Improvement Act, 3972-3975 [9MR]

S. 685, Employee Pension Protection Act, 5399-5402 [4AP]

S. 812, Retiree Health Benefits Preservation Act, 6726-6730 [17AP]

S. 857, Military Survivor Benefit Improvement Act, 7304, 7307 [19AP]

S. 864, use of Consumer Price Index in determining cost of living increases, 7315 [19AP]

S. 985, pension information disclosure to participants, 9089 [12MY]

S. 1069, tax deductions of individual retirement account contributions, 9894 [18MY]

S. 1073, Railroad Service Retirement Act, 9899 [18MY]

S. 1192, Social Security earnings test modifications, 11913 [15JN]

S. 1212, Social Security Notch Adjustment Act, 12702 [21JN]

S. 1231, Civil Service Retirement System benefits, 13107 [22JN]

S. 1243, Court of Veterans Appeals Judges Retirement Act, 13133-13136 [22JN], 18463-18467 [3AU]

S. 1324, Intelligence Authorization Act, 27602-27605 [7NO]

S. 1354, improve Thrift Investment Board, 15275 [19JY]

S. 1480, Economic Equity Act, 17983-17997 [2AU]

S. 1654, Excessive Churning and Speculation Act, 21327 [21SE]

S. 1682, Savings and Investment Incentive Act, 22157 [27SE]

S. 1890, treatment of inequities in crediting National Guard technician service relative to retirement, 29406 [16NO]

S. 1898, Mag-Lev Guarantee Pilot Program Act, 29743 [17NO]

S. 1995, increase amount of earnings exemption under Social Security retirement benefits, 31585-31588 [21NO]