WashingtonWatch.com - Budget Category: Social Security

S. 507, The Non-Foreign AREA Act of 2009 - Cost per Average Family: $21.59

Tue, 05 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

S. 507 would provide for retirement equity for Federal employees in nonforeign areas outside the 48 contiguous States and the District of Columbia....

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P.L. 110-315, The College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2007 - Cost per Average Family: $1304.36

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 4137 would amend and extend the Higher Education Act of 1965....

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S. 3013, The Non-Foreign AREA Act of 2008 - Cost per Average Family: $20.26

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

S. 3013 would provide for retirement equity for Federal employees in nonforeign areas outside the 48 contiguous States and the District of Columbia....

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P.L. 110-245, The Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008 - Cost per Average Family: $2.83

Thu, 29 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 6081 would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide benefits for military personnel....

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H.R. 5781, The Federal Employees Paid Parental Leave Act of 2008 - Cost per Average Family: $7.77

Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 5781 would provide that 8 of the 12 weeks of parental leave made available to a Federal employee shall be paid leave....

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H.R. 5719, The Taxpayer Assistance and Simplification Act of 2008 - Savings per Average Family: $3.81

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 5719 would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to conform return preparer penalty standards, delay implementation of withholding taxes on government contractors, enhance taxpayer protections, and assist low-income taxpayers....

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P.L. 110-328, The SSI Extension for Elderly and Disabled Refugees Act - Savings per Average Family: $5.67

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 2608 would amend section 402 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to provide, in fiscal years 2008 through 2010, extensions of supplemental security income for refugees, asylees, and certain other humanitarian immigrants, and it would amend the Internal Revenue Code to collect unemployment compensation debts resulting from fraud....

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S. 2242, The Heartland, Habitat, Harvest, and Horticulture Act of 2007 - Cost per Average Family: $69.34

Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EDT

S. 2242 would amend the Trade Act of 1974 to establish supplemental agricultural disaster assistance and to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax incentives for conservation and alternative energy sources and to provide tax relief for farmers....

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H.R. 3046, The Social Security Number Privacy and Identity Theft Prevention Act of 2007 - Cost per Average Family: $0.42

Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3046 would amend the Social Security Act to enhance Social Security account number privacy protections, it would prevent fraudulent misuse of the Social Security account number, and it would otherwise enhance protection against identity theft....

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S. 1348, The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 - Cost per Average Family: $1054.26

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:00:00 EDT

S. 1348 would provide for comprehensive immigration reform....

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P.L. 109-465, The Social Security Trust Funds Restoration Act of 2006 - Cost per Average Family: $0.00

Thu, 04 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST

S. 4091, enacted as Public Law 109-465, authorizes the Treasury to reimburse the Social Security trust funds for amounts erroneously transferred from the trust funds to the Internal Revenue Service. The reimbursement will make the trust funds whole following an accounting error that occurred over the 1999-2005 period. The Treasury made a partial reimbursement to the trust funds using existing statutory authority in August 2006....

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S. 2611, The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 - Cost per Average Family: $307.53

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 00:00:00 EDT

The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 would amend laws governing immigration, authorize numerous initiatives to improve enforcement of those laws, and increase the limits on legal immigration....

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S. 3708, The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007 - Cost per Average Family: $3840.08

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:00:00 EDT

S. 3708 spends money for the operations and activities of the Department of Education; the Department of Health and Human Services (except the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry); the Food and Drug Administration; for Indian Health Services and Facilities; the National Institute of Environmental Sciences (formerly EPA/Superfund)); the Department of Labor; and related agencies: the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled, the Corporation for National an...

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H.R. 5647, The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2007 - Cost per Average Family: $3827.74

Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 5647 spends money for the operations and activities of the Department of Education; the Department of Health and Human Services (except the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry); the Food and Drug Administration; for Indian Health Services and Facilities; the National Institute of Environmental Sciences (formerly EPA/Superfund)); the Department of Labor; and related agencies: the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled, the Corporation for National ...

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P.L. 109-239, The Safe and Timely Interstate Placement of Foster Children Act of 2006 - Cost per Average Family: $0.39

Fri, 19 May 2006 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 5403 would amend the Social Security Act to require states that receive foster care payments under the federal IV-E program to meet certain requirements when placing children in adoptive or foster homes in other states. The bill would require states receiving requests from other states to assess the suitability of placing a child in a home to complete such studies within 60 days (states may be granted up to 75 days, under certain circumstances)....

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H.R. 4437, The Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 - Cost per Average Family: $17.92

Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:00:00 EST

H.R. 4437 would direct the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Social Security Administration (SSA) to extend and expand a system to verify the eligibility of certain people for employment in the United States. The bill also would require DHS to reimburse counties along the southern U.S. border for costs relating to the detention of illegal aliens, increase the number of border inspection personnel, deploy radiation portal monitors at ports of entry, and establish an Office of Air and ...

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H.R. 3304, The Growing Real Ownership for Workers Act of 2005 - Cost per Average Family: $8536.47

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:00:00 EDT

H.R. 3304, the Growing Real Ownership for Workers (GROW) Act, would create individual retirement accounts for almost 200 million workers over the next decade. The federal funds transferred to those accounts would equal the surplus, excluding interest, accumulating in the Social Security trust funds over that time, but the money would come from the general funds of the government. While the federal government would administer the GROW program, account holders would make key decisions about invest...

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H.R. 1041, The Social Security KidSave Accounts Act - Cost per Average Family: $721.19

Thu, 07 Jul 2005 00:00:00 EDT

Under H.R. 1041, the government would create a $2,000 account for each child born in 2006 or later when he or she receives a Social Security number. That initial deposit would come from the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) trust fund, an off-budget account. The $2,000 would increase after 2013 in step with Social Security cost-of-living adjustments. The bill would also permit voluntary contributions of up to $500 a year through age 18, including rollovers from Individual Retirement Account...

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S. 1021, The Workforce Investment Act Amendments of 2005 - Cost per Average Family: $242.81

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:00:00 EDT

S. 1021 would amend and reauthorize the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA), the Wagner-Peyser Act, the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act, and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (RA). These programs provide a framework for adult education, job training, and employment service assistance. Some of the affected programs are permanently authorized (most of Wagner-Peyser), but others are currently authorized through 2005. S. 1021 would extend, through 2011, the existing mandatory program of stat...

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