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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)
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
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.)
Each member’s recorded vote compared with their swing projection from before the vote. A member by voting against most of their own party.
Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.
Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent: no individual votes recorded.
Members fall into . 2 representatives don’t have enough data yet and are marked “insufficient data”. Non-voting delegates are not counted.
: 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, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
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Ideology is each member’s score. The cluster low on the chart includes the bill’s 10 sponsor and cosponsors in the House: they have already committed, so they score as entrenched. 2 representatives without a DW-NOMINATE score or with insufficient data are not plotted.
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.
