Social Safety advocates had been fast to weigh in.
“That is the bipartisan answer that almost all People need, although some on Capitol Hill have proposed to slash advantages by elevating the retirement age, means testing, slicing COLAs, or privatizing Social Safety,” Max Richtman, president and CEO of the Nationwide Committee to Protect Social Safety and Medicare, stated in a press release after the signing.
“Congratulations to the sponsors and cosponsors of the Social Safety Equity Act for his or her perseverance in enacting the invoice earlier than the top of the 118th Congress,” Richtman added. “Thanks additionally to President Biden for signing it into regulation — and for persistently fulfilling his promise to guard People’ earned advantages throughout the top of his presidency. We are able to solely hope that President-elect Trump will hold his guarantees to do the identical.”
Biden’s signing of the Social Safety Equity Act “actually is historic,” Richtman continued. “The brand new regulation rights a mistaken that for the final 50 years has both diminished or eradicated the Social Safety advantages of sure authorities retirees. Practically 3 million public sector staff and households will now be eligible to gather their full Social Safety advantages. These embrace hard-working public servants like academics, firefighters, and cops whose advantages had been affected” by the WEP and GPO.
