Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Clergy Act
The bill gives eligible religious workers a clear, one‑time path to join Social Security and access retirement/survivor benefits, but doing so can trigger substantial immediate and ongoing tax costs, administrative burdens, and potential timing confusion for benefit payments.
Social Security Child Protection Act of 2025
The bill makes it easier to protect young children from identity theft by authorizing replacement SSNs, parental attestations, and SSA recordkeeping, but it brings procedural hurdles and costs and does not entirely eliminate residual identity-theft risk.
Improving Social Security’s Service to Victims of Identity Theft Act
The bill centralizes and professionalizes SSA handling of SSN misuse—improving continuity and transparency for victims—but increases administrative costs and relies on effective implementation to deliver promised benefits.
Claiming Age Clarity Act
The bill standardizes and clarifies benefit-age terminology to improve understanding and accessibility for beneficiaries and advocates, at the cost of modest SSA implementation expenses and some short-term confusion during the transition.
Affirming the importance of the Social Security program to the people of the United States and expressing the sense of the Senate that Social Security must be preserved, protected, and strengthened for current and future generations.
The resolution signals bipartisan concern for protecting Social Security and educating beneficiaries, but it is nonbinding and risks delaying the substantive policy reforms needed to secure long-term solvency.
Declaring August 14, 2025, as "National Save Social Security Day".
This nonbinding, bipartisan resolution raises awareness and political support for protecting Social Security but creates no concrete policy or funding changes and risks substituting symbolic attention for urgent reform.
Social Security Expansion Act
The bill raises benefits and provides more elderly-targeted inflation adjustments and student protections—boosting income for many retirees, low‑earners, and students—while shifting costs onto higher earners and investment income and imposing administrative and solvency pressures that could lead to higher taxes or future benefit changes.
Retirement Security for American Hostages Act of 2025
The bill helps unlawfully detained Americans (including retroactively) by crediting detention months toward Social Security benefits and adds a federal certification process to limit fraud, but it creates extra paperwork, excludes months after retirement age, and modestly increases program costs.
Clergy Act
The bill gives certain clergy a clear, time-bound path to opt into Social Security and obtain retirement and survivors' benefits, but creates risks of large retroactive tax bills, permanent loss of exemption flexibility, and modest added fiscal and administrative costs.
Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to apply inflation adjustments to the base amount and adjusted base amount for purposes of determining taxable social security benefits.
The bill protects taxpayers' real-dollar thresholds and reduces the need for legislative adjustments by indexing §86 to inflation, but that protection comes with modestly lower federal revenue and small additional increases from $100 rounding.
Social Security 2100 Act
The bill boosts benefits, caregiver credits, student eligibility, in‑person SSA services, and privacy remedies while raising payroll revenue by taxing more earnings—but those gains are largely temporary, come with higher taxes/outlays and administrative complexity, and increase legal and operational trade‑offs for beneficiaries, employers, and taxpayers.
Work Without Worry Act of 2026
The bill expands and clarifies access to child's insurance benefits for many people with early-onset disabilities while reducing some duplicate payments — but it may cut benefits for certain individuals, add SSA administrative burden, and create timing-based inequities for applicants.
PROMISE Act of 2026
The bill mandates a time-limited, transparent, expert-informed process to produce concrete proposals aimed at securing Social Security for 50 years—improving clarity and plan quality—but it constrains congressional deliberation and could force tax increases or benefit cuts while concentrating drafting authority in an advisory board.
Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act
The bill extends and clarifies Social Security disability demonstration authority to protect participant income and enable longer testing of potential improvements, but it raises risks of higher costs to Social Security trust funds and prolonged uncertainty or slower implementation for beneficiaries and administrators.
Fairness for Disabled Young Adults Act
The bill extends child’s Social Security benefits through age 26 for disabled young adults—boosting income and Medicaid continuity for them and reducing family hardship—while increasing program costs and administrative complexity.
Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act
The bill raises retirees' take-home benefits by exempting Social Security and Railroad Retirement income from gross income, but it shifts funding to annual appropriations that could increase deficits, constrain funding choices, and weaken long-term financing transparency.
Carried Interest Fairness Act of 2025
The bill trades greater tax fairness and clearer anti‑avoidance rules (and modest Social Security coverage gains) for earlier and often larger tax bills and substantially higher compliance and administrative costs for partnerships, service providers, and affected investors.
Social Security Caregiver Credit Act of 2026
The bill improves retirement security and federal recognition for unpaid and some paid caregivers by adding Social Security credits, but does so at meaningful fiscal and administrative cost that could strain trust funds, increase complexity, and leave some caregivers (including certain veterans and very long-term caregivers) under-credited.
Railroad Retirement Fairness Act of 2026
The bill trades higher annuity payments and simpler Railroad Retirement Board administration for greater fiscal cost risk, potential for increased improper payments, and short-term uncertainty for beneficiaries.
Blind Americans Return to Work Act of 2026
The bill strengthens work incentives and preserves entitlement for people who are blind—improving choice and income stability for many—while creating risks of lower benefits for some, added administrative complexity, and higher taxpayer costs over a long demonstration period.
Strengthen Social Security by Taxing Dynastic Wealth Act
The bill raises revenue and tightens estate-tax rules while consolidating Social Security trust funds to simplify funding and improve transparency, but it increases tax and compliance burdens for many estates and creates risks to disability benefit prioritization and budget treatment.
Senior Citizens’ Freedom to Work Act of 2026
The bill raises take-home pay and simplifies certain income rules for working beneficiaries and SSI recipients, at the cost of higher Social Security outlays, potential incentives to claim earlier that increase long-term strain, and short-term administrative and implementation burdens.
No Crypto in Social Security Act
The bill reduces crypto-related risk to federal retirement funds and gives managers clearer rules, at the cost of potentially lower returns, transaction costs, and a narrower investment universe with higher compliance burdens.
Supplemental Security Income Restoration Act of 2026
The bill expands and modernizes SSI eligibility and benefit rules—boosting payments and access for many seniors, people with disabilities, tribal members, and territory residents—while increasing federal costs and creating winners and losers (and administrative and privacy challenges) during implementation.
We Can't Wait Act of 2026
The bill lets disabled workers get earlier, partial DI payments and clearer decision tools, but at the cost of reduced monthly benefits for electors and potential solvency and complexity risks for the DI program.
Immediate Access for the Terminally Ill Act
The bill speeds and clarifies access to SSDI for some (notably certain terminally ill individuals) and adds beneficiary protections, but it reduces some monthly payments, cedes certain medical-listing decisions to the political process, raises privacy and administrative burdens, and poses fiscal and equity risks.
Protect Our Seniors Act
The bill strengthens protections for Social Security and Medicare beneficiaries and increases budget transparency, at the cost of making entitlement changes and budget offsets harder to enact—potentially delaying deficit-reduction and narrowing legislative flexibility.
RETIREES FIRST Act
The bill increases predictability and preserves trust fund financing by indexing thresholds and requiring offsets, but it raises taxes on many retirees and funds the changes through annual, across-the-board cuts to nonsecurity discretionary programs, creating administrative burdens and shifting costs onto public services and vulnerable groups.
Safeguarding American Families and Expanding Social Security Act of 2025
The bill increases retirement benefits and aligns COLAs with elderly spending—helping many retirees—while also cutting payroll taxes for higher earners; together these changes improve benefits for some but materially raise fiscal pressure and administrative complexity, increasing the risk of future offsets, delays, or uncertainty for beneficiaries.
Social Security Survivor Benefits Equity Act
The bill simplifies and prospectively changes how lump-sum death payments are calculated—making benefits easier to understand and giving agencies time to adjust—but risks lowering payments for some survivors and creating legal, administrative, and taxpayer costs.
