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H.R. 5284: Claiming Age Clarity Act · Congress Swing Tracker

H.R. 5284119th CongressSocial Welfare

Claiming Age Clarity Act

Sponsored by Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) · 9 active : 6 Republicans, 3 Democrats

Latest action: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5184)

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Where it standsBefore the House

Passed both chambers, awaiting the President

House: passedDec 1, 2025
Senate: passedSep 29, 2026
President: Awaiting action

49 representatives score as swing votes

Summary

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Claiming Age Clarity Act

This bill changes certain terms that are used by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to describe the ages at which a worker may claim Social Security retirement benefits.

First, the SSA must use

minimum monthly benefit age

instead of

early eligibility age

. This refers to the earliest age (62 under current law) at which a worker may claim benefits. (Currently, the benefit amount of a worker who claims benefits early is reduced to account for the longer period during which the worker is expected to receive benefits.)

Second, the SSA must use

standard monthly benefit age

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instead of

full retirement age

and

normal retirement age

. These terms refer to the age at which a worker may claim benefits without a reduction in the benefit amount. (Currently, this age ranges from 65 to 67, depending on the worker's year of birth.)

Finally, the SSA must use the term

maximum monthly benefit age

for any reference to age 70 as the maximum age at which a worker may receive delayed retirement credits. The SSA may not use the term

delayed retirement credit.

These terms refer to the mechanism that increases the benefit amount of a worker who delays claiming benefits after reaching the full retirement age. (Currently, a worker receives a credit for each month between the full retirement age and age 70 that the worker delays claiming benefits. Each credit increases the benefit amount that the worker will receive after claiming benefits by a specified percentage.)

How the projections held up

Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.

House

Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.

Senate

Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.

Committees and subjects

Committees

House Committee on Ways and Means · HouseReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Senate Committee on Finance · SenateDischarged from · Referred to

Subjects

Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Aging
Social Security Administration
Social security and elderly assistance

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

How the House breaks down

49Swing 70–100
200Middle 30–70
182Entrenched 0–30
2Insufficient data not ranked

Members fall into . 2 representatives don’t have enough data yet and are marked “insufficient data”. Non-voting delegates are not counted.

Key players in the House

Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3, directional

: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.

Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.

Similar past votes, House

Earlier behind swing-v3’s input

Not applicable in the House. There is not enough similar voting history (weight 2.5 of 5.0 needed), so this input is left out of the score rather than counted as missing.

H.R. 5342 · Nov 12, 2024 · Roll call 1175On Motion to Suspend the Rules and PassEqual Treatment of Public Servants Act
FailedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 82 · Nov 12, 2024 · Roll call 1174On Motion to Suspend the Rules and PassSocial Security Fairness Act
PassedShared subjects×1.0
H.R. 8884 · Jul 23, 2026 · Roll call 643On PassageRemoving Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act
PassedSame policy area×0.5

Cosponsors

9 active

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Aaron Bean (R-FL-4)
Donald S. Beyer (D-VA-8)
Thomas R. Suozzi (D-NY-3)
Ben Cline (R-VA-6)
Blake D. Moore (R-UT-1)
Rudy Yakym (R-IN-2)
Mike Kelly (R-PA-16)
Eugene Simon Vindman (D-VA-7)
Mike Carey (R-OH-15)

How the swing score works

Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.

Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.

Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.

Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.

Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.

Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.