AN ACT CONCERNING ELIMINATING SOCIAL SECURITY OFFSETS UNDER THE UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION ACT.


General Assembly		*Proposed Bill No. 5753*
*January Session, 2005*		LCO No. 1996

Referred to Committee on Labor and Public Employees
Introduced by:
REP. O'BRIEN, 24^th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING ELIMINATING SOCIAL SECURITY OFFSETS UNDER THE UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION ACT.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That subsection (g) of section 31-227 of the general statutes be amended to eliminate the requirement that unemployment compensation benefits be offset by the amount of Social Security benefits received.

Statement of Purpose:

To eliminate the Social Security benefit offset for individuals receiving unemployment compensation.