Safeguarding American Families and Expanding Social Security Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This bill raises Social Security payroll tax exposure on earnings above the contribution and benefit base after 2025 and increases benefits by adjusting the primary insurance amount formula and using the elderly consumer price index for cost-of-living adjustments.
Who Benefits and How
Social Security beneficiaries could receive larger initial benefits and cost-of-living adjustments, especially through the higher formula factor and CPI-E based inflation adjustments.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Higher earners with wages or self-employment income above the current taxable maximum would face additional Social Security tax liability, and the trust funds would take on higher future benefit obligations.
Key Provisions
- Applies payroll tax to an applicable share of wages and self-employment income above the contribution and benefit base after 2025.
- Raises the 90 percent primary insurance amount factor and includes additional earnings for benefit calculations.
- Uses the elderly consumer price index for Social Security cost-of-living adjustments.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
This bill raises Social Security payroll tax exposure on earnings above the contribution and benefit base after 2025 and increases benefits by adjusting the primary insurance amount formula and using the elderly consumer price index for cost-of-living adjustments.
Key Policy Areas
Finance, Social Welfare
Primary Purpose
This bill raises Social Security payroll tax exposure on earnings above the contribution and benefit base after 2025 and increases benefits by adjusting the primary insurance amount formula and using the elderly consumer price index for cost-of-living adjustments.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Social Security beneficiaries receiving higher or better-indexed benefits
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Higher earners paying additional Social Security payroll taxes above the current taxable maximum
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeRead twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
Mr. Schatz introduced the following bill; which was read twice …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
High earners with wages and self-employment income above the Social Security contribution and benefit base, Social Security beneficiaries receiving cost-of-living adjustments based on the elderly consumer price index, Social Security beneficiaries receiving higher benefits from the adjusted primary insurance amount formula
Positive-direction: Social Security beneficiaries receiving cost-of-living adjustments based on the elderly consumer price index, Social Security beneficiaries receiving higher benefits from the adjusted primary insurance amount formula
Negative-direction: High earners with wages and self-employment income above the Social Security contribution and benefit base
Social Security trust fund obligations affected by the richer benefit formula, Social Security trust fund revenues from earnings above the current taxable maximum
Positive-direction: Social Security trust fund revenues from earnings above the current taxable maximum
Negative-direction: Social Security trust fund obligations affected by the richer benefit formula
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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