Effort to Give Better Social Security Benefits to Many Feds Gains Momentum in Congress

Government Executive: A longstanding effort to boost Social Security benefits for some former federal employees gained some momentum Tuesday, as powerful lawmakers from both parties embraced a reform proposal at a congressional hearing.

Members of the House Ways and Means Committee’s panel on Social Security discussed the merits of a measure that would reduce the retirement penalty for federal civil servants and other public employees who also worked in the private sector. Tuesday’s hearing marked the first action on the Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act since the ways and means Chairman Kevin Brady, R-Texas, introduced it in February 2015.

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