Exempt health care workers and first responders from Social Security's Retirement Earnings Test during public health emergencies and retroactively restore reduced benefits from the COVID-19 public health emergency.

April McClain Delaney · Maryland · Democratic

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Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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introduced the Health Care Worker and First Responder Fairness Act, which will exempt health care workers and first responders from Social Security’s Retirement Earnings Test (RET) during public health emergencies ... [and] retroactively restore benefits for health care professionals and first responders who had them reduced or eliminated during the COVID-19 public health emergency

Introduced legislation to protect returning health care workers and first responders from Social Security benefit reductions during emergencies and to restore COVID-era reductions.

McClain Delaney, Thompson Introduce Legislation to Bolster Health Care Workforce | Congresswoman April McClain Delaney
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The introduced bill names Rep. Thompson and Rep. McClain Delaney and would exclude qualifying health care professional or first responder wages from Social Security retirement earnings-test calculations for January 31, 2020 through May 11, 2023, and for future declared public health emergencies with waivers.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): McClain Delaney took concrete same-term legislative action on a bill matching the commitment's retroactive COVID relief and future public-health-emergency exemption.

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H.R. 6543 Introduced Text - Health Care Worker and First Responder Fairness Act
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Congress.gov lists the latest action as December 9, 2025 referral to the House Committee on Ways and Means, the bill status as Introduced, and Rep. McClain Delaney as a cosponsor from December 9, 2025.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): No enactment, House passage, Senate passage, or agency implementation is shown; searches in the August 31-September 2, 2026 lookback found no newer official delivery record, leaving the commitment unresolved rather than delivered.

unresolved same_term A for effort

All Info - H.R.6543 - 119th Congress: Health Care Worker and First Responder Fairness Act
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McClain Delaney took same-term legislative action by cosponsoring H.R. 6543 on December 9, 2025, which closely matches the promise by addressing both a public-health-emergency Retirement Earnings Test exemption and retroactive COVID-19 benefit restoration. However, as of September 2, 2026, Congress.gov still shows the bill only introduced and referred to House Ways and Means, with no enactment or implementation. Because she remains in the same congressional term and the measure is pending, the promise is not delivered but remains unresolved, with credit for effort.

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