Social Security advocates were quick to weigh in.
“This is the bipartisan solution that most Americans want, even though some on Capitol Hill have proposed to slash benefits by raising the retirement age, means testing, cutting COLAs, or privatizing Social Security,” Max Richtman, president and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, said in a statement after the signing.
“Congratulations to the sponsors and cosponsors of the Social Security Fairness Act for their perseverance in enacting the bill before the end of the 118th Congress,” Richtman added. “Thanks also to President Biden for signing it into law — and for consistently fulfilling his promise to protect Americans’ earned benefits all the way through the end of his presidency. We can only hope that President-elect Trump will keep his promises to do the same.”
Biden’s signing of the Social Security Fairness Act “truly is historic,” Richtman continued. “The new law rights a wrong that for the last 50 years has either reduced or eliminated the Social Security benefits of certain government retirees. Nearly 3 million public sector employees and families will now be eligible to collect their full Social Security benefits. These include hard-working public servants like teachers, firefighters, and police officers whose benefits were affected” by the WEP and GPO.
