H.R.2440 - More Transparent and Honest Communications with American Workers Reform Act of 2009
To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to provide that annual Social Security account statements indicate, in estimating the level of projected benefits of eligible individuals, the effect on such benefits levels of benefit reductions which may be necessary, in the absence of future legislative remedies, by reason of anticipated insolvency of the Social Security Trust Funds.
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To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to provide that annual Social Security account statements indicate, in estimating the level of projected benefits of eligible individuals, the effect on such benefits levels of benefit reductions which may be necessary, in the absence of future legislative remedies, by reason of anticipated insolvency of the Social Security Trust Funds.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
Mr. MCCARTHY of California (for himself, Mr. FLEMING, and Mr. POSEY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and MeansCommentsClose CommentsPermalink
To amend title XI of the Social Security Act to provide that annual Social Security account statements indicate, in estimating the level of projected benefits of eligible individuals, the effect on such benefits levels of benefit reductions which may be necessary, in the absence of future legislative remedies, by reason of anticipated insolvency of the Social Security Trust Funds.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘More Transparent and Honest Communications with American Workers Reform Act of 2009’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
SEC. 2. NOTICE OF EFFECT ON PROJECTED BENEFIT LEVELS OF ANTICIPATED INSOLVENCY OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUNDS.
(a) In General- Section 1143(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320b-13(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
‘(4) In making estimates of potential old-age insurance benefits pursuant to paragraph (2)(D), the Commissioner shall--CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
‘(A) estimate projected benefits for each eligible individual, assuming the current earnings rate and assuming, in the alternative, retirement at age 62, at the applicable normal retirement age, and at age 70,CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
‘(B) in any case in which the projections in the latest report of the Board of Trustees under section 201(c) regarding future levels of receipts and disbursements of the Trust Funds indicate, using intermediate assumptions, that the balance in the Trust Funds may become by any specified future date insufficient to pay benefits in full when due, indicate the percentage reduction in the level of benefit payments that could result, without intervening enactment of remedies by the Congress, from such an insufficient balance in the Trust Funds, andCommentsClose CommentsPermalink
‘(C) set forth a separate schedule of such estimated projected benefits of such eligible individual which reflects any such percentage reduction in the case of each retirement alternative described in subparagraph (A) which would occur after the future date referred to in subparagraph (B).’.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
(b) Effective Date- The amendment made by this section shall apply with respect to Social Security account statements issued after December 31, 2009.CommentsClose CommentsPermalink
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U.S. Congress - Text of H.R.2440 as Introduced in House More Transparent and Honest Communications with American Workers Reform Act of 2009
