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What did the law Perry backed change for Social Security recipients?

Matches stated direction. He voted for the 2025 law adding an income-limited deduction of up to $6,000 per person age 65 or older for 2025–2028. Social Security benefits can still be taxable.

Scott Perry

What did the law Perry backed change for Social Security recipients?

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Perry described the reconciliation law as including no tax on Social Security.

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He voted for the 2025 law adding an income-limited deduction of up to $6,000 per person age 65 or older for 2025–2028. Social Security benefits can still be taxable.

Limit: The deduction can eliminate some recipients’ tax bills; it did not repeal the tax on benefits.

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  1. abc27 debate, October 14, 2026: Perry on Social Security taxhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ZjAk2EtwE&t=2734s

    abc27 / WHTM · Published Oct 14, 2026 · Reviewed Nov 2, 2026

    Paraphrase from the debate’s saved native English captions. The timestamp links to the statement and its surrounding context; no second independent transcript was compared.

    candidate statement

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  2. House roll call 190, final H.R.1 concurrence, July 3, 2025 (document)

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Published Jul 3, 2025 · Reviewed Oct 29, 2026

    Perry Aye on the motion to concur in the Senate amendment to H.R.1; agreed 218–214. This is a vote on the whole bill.

    official legislative record

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  3. Public Law 119-21 (the One Big Beautiful Bill Act)https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ21/html/PLAW-119publ21.htm

    U.S. Government Publishing Office · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Approved July 4, 2025. Section 70101 extends the 2017 lower individual tax rates; section 70105 extends the qualified business income deduction; section 71113 bars Medicaid payments for one year to a class of nonprofit family-planning providers that perform abortions other than in cases of rape, incest or danger to the woman's life. The law does not name Planned Parenthood. Section 90001 funds border infrastructure and wall; section 90003 funds immigration detention capacity. Section 71201 limits Medicare to citizens, permanent residents, Cuban and Haitian entrants and people living here under a Compact of Free Association.

    official legislative record

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  4. IRS: Working families tax cuts, individuals and workershttps://www.irs.gov/newsroom/working-families-tax-cuts-individuals-and-workers

    Internal Revenue Service · Reviewed Nov 2, 2026

    Explains the additional deduction of up to $6,000 per qualifying person age 65 or older for 2025–2028, subject to income limits. It is a deduction rather than repeal of the tax on Social Security benefits.

    official office record

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  5. IRS Publication 554 (2025), Tax Guide for Seniorshttps://www.irs.gov/publications/p554

    Internal Revenue Service · Reviewed Nov 2, 2026

    The 2025 tax guide explains the senior deduction and circumstances in which Social Security benefits remain taxable. No individual recipient’s tax result is calculated here.

    official office record

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