WASHINGTON — The House will vote in November on a bill to provide $250 payments to Social Security recipients to make up for the lack of a cost-of-living increase for next year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday.
The Social Security Administration is expected to announce today that more than 58 million retirees and disabled Americans will go a second consecutive year without an increase in benefits.
Pelosi said she will schedule a vote on a bill to provide the $250 payments when Congress returns for a lame-duck session after the Nov. 2 congressional elections. The payments would be similar to those provided by the government’s massive economic-recovery package last year.
But even if Pelosi can get the House to approve a second payment, the proposal faces opposition in the Senate.
The Associated Press
