HR 8788 · 93th Congress · Social Welfare
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide a 50-percent across-the-board increase in benefits thereunder, with the resulting benefit costs being borne equally by employers, employees, and the Federal Government, and to raise the amount of outside earnings which a beneficiary may have without suffering deductions from his benefits.
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EnactedLatest: Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.(1973-06-18)
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Provides for a 50-percent across-the-board increase in benefits under Title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Benefits) with the resulting benefit costs being borne equally by employers, employees, and the Federal Government. Increases the amount of outside earnings which a beneficiary may have without suffering deductions from his benefits from $175 per month to $250 per month.…
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