HR 802 · 99th Congress · Social Welfare
A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to improve the treatment of women through the establishment and payment of working spouse's benefits.
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Introduced2
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Senate5
EnactedLatest: Referred to Subcommittee on Social Security.(1985-02-07)
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Establishes a working spouse's benefit under title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act. Provides that any individual who receives both old-age benefits or a disability insurance benefit and wife's, husband's, widow's, widower's, mother's, or father's insurance benefits shall be entitled to such new benefit. States that such new benefit shall be a percentage of the smaller of the two benefits to which the recipient was entitled. Limits the receipt of such new benefit to one member of a married couple when both members are eligible.…
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