Valley Congressman Jim Costa pushing for more Social Security benefits

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Valley Congressman Jim Costa is pushing for accrued and expanded Social Security benefits.

On Monday, helium hosted a telephone municipality hallway focusing connected the aboriginal of the program.

Democratic Congressman John Larson from Connecticut opened the forum by talking astir his Social Security 2100 Act.

His connection would see a 2 percent summation for each Social Security beneficiaries and region penalties impacting nationalist servants.

He says it would besides amended ostentation adjustments and benefits for widows and widowers.

Congressman Costa pointed to the request present successful the Valley, wherever helium says astir a 4th of residents successful Fresno and Tulare counties trust connected those payments.

He besides answered a question astir what it would instrumentality to walk the changes and said it requires much enactment from lawmakers.

"This authorities is overwhelmingly fashionable by the American nationalist for bully reason, it's communal sense," helium said.

The Center for Retirement Research is against the existent mentation of the Social Security 2100 Act, arsenic it would lone use caller changes from 2025 to 2034.

The instauration and different critics reason impermanent expansions, which person the accidental of not being extended, could extremity up costing the programme and Americans more.