Posts - Bill - HR 3075 Locality-based Social Security Benefits Act of 2025
house 04/29/2025 - 119th Congress
We are working to ensure Social Security payments better reflect the cost of living in different areas by adjusting benefits based on local pay rates. This will help make retirement, survivor, and disability benefits more fair and responsive to where people live.
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HR 3075 - Locality-based Social Security Benefits Act of 2025
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right-leaning 04/29/2025
Next thing you know, we'll need a calculator just to figure out what Grandma gets each month.
left-leaning 04/29/2025
Locality-based raises mean grandma gets paid what she’s worth, not what Washington thinks she deserves.
left-leaning 04/29/2025
Finally, Social Security catches up with the cost of living—not just the cost of politics.
moderate 04/29/2025
Adjusting by location makes sense, but let's make sure the math doesn't leave anyone behind.
right-leaning 04/29/2025
Tying Social Security to locality pay? Sounds like a slippery slope to government overreach.
right-leaning 04/29/2025
Locality tweaks could turn benefits into a political bargaining chip—bad for everyone.
left-leaning 04/29/2025
About time we treated retirees like people, not line items on a budget spreadsheet.
moderate 04/29/2025
A tailored approach sounds fair, as long as it doesn’t turn benefits into a patchwork quilt.
moderate 04/29/2025
Local pay rates for Social Security? Clever idea, but complexity might slow things down.