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Social Security benefits should not be garnished, levied, or offset to collect any public or private debts, with limited exceptions for child support, alimony, and victim restitution funds.
Social Security Disability Insurance should continue as a critical wage replacement system for people who are unable to work because of medical impairment and their families.
The Social Security Administration (SSA) must have sufficient resources and staff to ensure stable, effective management of the disability programs.
SSA should collect and report sufficient data to ensure program integrity.
The Social Security Administration should explore options for expanding federal disability benefits. This should include short-term and partial disability benefits.
Congress should improve the current Government Pension Offset calculation by utilizing more detailed earnings data available to the Social Security Administration for both spouses’ covered and unco
Defined contribution plan account holders should have to obtain written spousal consent to take payment from the account in a form other than a joint-and-survivor annuity.