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Labor and WelfareH.R. 6543Not Yet VotedComments

Health Care Worker and First Responder Fairness Act

Official title: To provide for the exemption of certain earnings from the retirement earnings test, and for other purposes.

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What This Bill Does

This bill exempts from the Social Security Retirement Earnings Test (RET) wages earned through work as a health care professional or first responder during the COVID-19 pandemic. Under the RET, benefits are reduced for beneficiaries who are younger than full retirement age if they earn wages in excess of a specified annual limit.

Further, the Social Security Administration may issue waivers to individuals employed as health care professionals or first responders during a declared public health emergency in which there is a shortage of health care workers. Wages earned by individuals granted waivers during a public health emergency are exempt from the RET.

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Timeline

  1. Library of CongressIntroduced in House
  2. House floor actionsReferred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
  3. Introduced
  4. Committee

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