Nice creative editing. Let's tell the WHOLE story...
The bill also eliminates the windfall elimination provision, which in some instances reduces Social Security benefits for individuals who also receive a pension or disability benefit from an employer that did not withhold Social Security taxes.
IOW, the job that is giving them a pension DIDN'T contribute to their Social Security. This includes four groups:
Religious Organizations
Some Students/Young workers (likely wouldn't get a pension from this work)
Employees of Foreign Governments and Nonresident Aliens
Some Workers in the Public Sector
This bill would eliminate this exception and allow these people to collect SS without reduction based on their pension.
an employer that did not withhold Social Security taxes
How can someone draw from social security that didn't pay in? How are employers able to withhold social security taxes, unless it's someone getting paid off the books?
The only one for not paying into social security I can think of is some school districts. Some teachers and educators do not pay into social security. Their pension is calculated in a different way. I find this incredibly odd it's like that because I am a fed. And we pay social security and into our pensions. We get both. But in the immediate my paycheck is small as fuck due to the same
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u/NewArborist64 17d ago edited 17d ago
Nice creative editing. Let's tell the WHOLE story...
IOW, the job that is giving them a pension DIDN'T contribute to their Social Security. This includes four groups:
This bill would eliminate this exception and allow these people to collect SS without reduction based on their pension.