Social Security Applauds Passage of Legislation Providing Historic Tax Relief for Seniors
Reading Time: 1 MinuteLast Updated: July 7, 2025
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is celebrating the passage of the One Big, Beautiful Bill, a landmark piece of legislation that delivers long-awaited tax relief to millions of older Americans.
The bill ensures that nearly 90% of Social Security beneficiaries will no longer pay federal income taxes on their benefits, providing meaningful and immediate relief to seniors who have spent a lifetime contributing to our nation’s economy.
“This is a historic step forward for America’s seniors,” said Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano. “For nearly 90 years, Social Security has been a cornerstone of economic security for older Americans. By significantly reducing the tax burden on benefits, this legislation reaffirms President Trump’s promise to protect Social Security and helps ensure that seniors can better enjoy the retirement they’ve earned.”
The new law includes a provision that eliminates federal income taxes on Social Security benefits for most beneficiaries, providing relief to individuals and couples. It does so by providing an enhanced deduction for taxpayers aged 65 and older, ensuring that retirees can keep more of what they earned.
Social Security remains committed to providing timely, accurate information to the public and will continue working closely with federal partners to ensure beneficiaries understand how this legislation may affect them.
For more information about Social Security programs and benefits, visit www.ssa.gov.
Correction Notice: This blog was updated on July 7, 2025. The second sentence of the fourth paragraph originally read, “Additionally, it provides an enhanced deduction for taxpayers aged 65 and older, ensuring that retirees can keep more of what they have earned.”
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Edd R.
I got no useful information from this “1 minute read”.
Jim
There wasn’t any there. It was disinformation, apparently for political purposes.
Bill R.
Beware: this post (which also went out as an email to SSA subscribers) is misleading and an unpredented politicization of SSA business. The bill doesn’t, as claimed, ensure that “nearly 90% of Social Security beneficiaries will no longer pay federal income taxes on their benefits”. It couldn’t, because of the procedural chicanery (reconciliation process) that was the only way the Republicans could get the bill passed. It provides a *temporary* tax deduction. It will also strip millions of people of their health insurance, raise the cost of living, cut food assistance for the poor, kill off clean energy development and raise the national debt by trillions of dollars. The agency is already in chaos following the DOGE cuts. Former SSA commissioner O’Malley is predicting widespread benefit interruptions. While our Social Security is deliberately gutted, perhaps terminally, the SSA puts out misleading and partisan puff pieces like this.
DJ
Lol.
The announcement already stated “temporary” but I suppose you feel of increased importance (and perhaps a nice little daily release of TDS-fueled enmity for you) by claiming to inform everyone of that. It in no way affects health insurance, cost of living, the environment, etc. Grow up and get out from under your own torrent or fabricated hysteria and overwrought Chicken Little-like leftist refrains.
Perhaps you’d prefer double-digit inflation, selling strategic oil reserves to our number one enemy, allowing 14 million undocumented illegals through our borders (with an annual direct cost of a quarter of a trillion $$ to legal taxpayers), pandering to the nuclear weapons-ambitious fanatics who lead the world in state sponsored terrorism, the inability to hold an unscripted press conference, an administration which routinely strong-armed social media execs in an attempt to squelch free speech, a blind eye towards the violence and threats thrust upon our Jewish college students, a candidate with no policies or plans or vision who has the IQ of a watermelon and the EQ of a 2 yr. old, etc, etc. I’m sure you know that Bill Clinton eliminated nearly 400,000 federal jobs (didn’t hear a peep out of you then – ever worked in DC to see the extreme waste firsthand? Doubt it.) and that Obama deported 3 million-plus illegals (Psst: many of those were via ICE raids, too) and that Hillary is on record stating illegal immigration needs to be stopped and those who are admitted need to speak/learn English. My, my, the ne plus ultra of hypocritical living on public display. So, thanks for that.
P.S. How’s that men in women’s sports and locker rooms thing working out? Tsk, tsk – abnormality to a freakish degree. You’ve got it all figured out, Cletus. Lol.
Dr. R.
Disturbing to see SSA and our tax dollars co-opted for political gain and gaslighting the public. The reckless fiscal policies of the Trump Administration are undermining the very foundations of Social Security. When the reckoning comes — and it will — they’ll be no website on which to post garbage like this. Ask yourself a simple question: How is it that the wealthiest Nation in all of Human history — which has never been as rich as it is now — is slashing services from basic health, to science and education? As they say, “FreeDumb isn’t free.”
Lee
It states 90% will benefit from this bill, but why not 100%? Who out of the 10% has to still pay taxes? Please explain who still has to pay taxes?
Jim
It also doesn’t state that it is temporary, only lasting 4 years.
garlicisgreat
It was President Reagan, along with then Senator Joe Biden, who imposed tax on Social Security recipients in the first place. I would hope that people will look it up before criticizing SSA on this blog.
Nunya
That doesn’t change the fact that misleading nature of the post by SSA. The bill does nothing to taxes on Social Security, it only affects overall tax burden regardless of source and is temporary.
Tom S.
I never thought I’d see the SSA as a propaganda machine. The fact that an official government office promotes lies is unconscionable.
The administration did not “eliminate federal taxes on Social Security” as you so loudly proclaimed. What is there is a temporary tax deduction for some people.
The deduction changes little for low income seniors of whom 64 percent already pay NO TAX. The new deduction would be more meaningful for upper-middle-class seniors, at least temporarily…. Plus i brings us ALL a one year sooner social security insolvency.
Jim
I have to agree, I really dislike seeing the SSA become a disinformation platform and as usual the Social Security insolvency issue is still being ignored.
Donna G.
By the White House’s own admission, the bill DOES NOT ELIMINATE taxes on Social Security! It gives seniors in a certain income group a$6000 credit temporarily. It would expire in 2028. Here’s my concern: We received a $250 credit during GW Bush’s term and the following year we had to claim it as income and were taxed on it. Is that what this $6000 credit do?
Bob P.
Any relief granted seniors is very welcome relief, regardless of which political party to which the beneficiary belongs.
Amanda
This information is disturbingly partisan, misleading at best and debatably inaccurate.
Taxes are not eliminated. A temporary extra deduction is in place until 2028. That’s all.
Phillip R.
This is a thinly disguised rah-rah Trump article–utterly inappropriate for a government agency designed to serve the public irrespective of party affiliation.
More to the point: it doesn’t provide substantive information on the effect of the legislation on the taxability of benefits at various income levels.
Utterly useless communication.