Senate passes Social Security benefits boost for many public service retirees

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : The Senate has passed legislation to boost Social Security payments for millions of peopleWASHINGTON (AP) --
61% : "Social Security is a bedrock of our middle class.
59% : The Senate passed legislation early Saturday to boost Social Security payments for millions of people, pushing a longtime priority for former public employees through Congress in one of its last acts for the year.
57% : They pay into Social Security just like everyone else.
55% : The bipartisan bill, which next heads to President Joe Biden, will eliminate longtime reductions to Social Security benefits for nearly 3 million people who receive pensions from work in federal, state and local government, or public service jobs like teachers, firefighters and police officers.
54% : "There's so much riding on us getting this right and having the courage to fix Social Security over the next few years," Tillis said.
48% : No longer will public retirees see their hard-earned Social Security benefits robbed from them," said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.The bill repeals two provisions -- the Windfall Elimination Provision and the Government Pension Offset -- that limit Social Security benefits for certain recipients if they receive retirement payments from other sources such as the public retirement program for a state or local government.
45% : The policy changes will also heap more work on the Social Security Administration when the agency is already at its lowest staffing level in 50 years.
44% : This is an unfair, inequitable penalty," said Sen. Susan Collins, a Maine Republican.GOP supporters of the bill also said they would return to work on larger fixes to Social Security.

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