Tick-tock. Social Security Fairness Act's nearing death without Senate vote scheduled

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : This would allow retirees to receive Social Security benefits based on the fraction of earnings covered by Social Security, they said.
55% : "Many of those research groups, including the Bipartisan Policy Center, which aims to represent ideas from both Republicans and Democrats, support replacing WEP with a "proportional formula" for Social Security.
54% : People with earnings outside the Social Security system can look like low earners and reap "a better return on their Social Security contributions than people with similar lifetime earnings who paid into Social Security throughout their lives," wrote Andrew Biggs, senior fellow at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute thinktank.
53% : "I worked and paid into Social Security from 1969 until about 2018," said Don Hillbish, retired police Sergeant from Reading, Pennsylvania, who began working as a newspaper boy at 14 years old, part-time jobs from 15 through college and all during his career as a police officer, like many other officers and firefighters.
50% : It could give legislators time to draft a bill that reforms, instead of repeals, the rules, which some analysts said could prevent Social Security from becoming insolvent sooner and be fair.
49% : The rules were intended to prevent Social Security from overpaying people who worked in non-covered pension jobs, policy experts said.
29% : New potential boss: Trump nominates finance CEO Frank Bisignano to lead Social Security AdministrationIf the Social Security Fairness Act fails to pass, Congress must begin the process all over again.

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