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To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the inclusion in gross income of Social Security benefits.
Key claim: This House bill would change federal tax law so Social Security benefits are no longer counted as taxable income.
Abstract
(HR9359 · 118th Congress) Latest action (2024-08-13): Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Why this matters
Taxation of Social Security benefits determines how much retirement income is effectively returned to the federal government, and repealing it would shift tax burden away from beneficiaries — particularly middle-income retirees whose provisional income exceeds current base thresholds — while reducing revenue to the Social Security and Medicare trust funds that receive those tax proceeds. As an introduced bill, it signals continued congressional interest in eliminating this tax but has no legal effect yet.