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What to know about the House push to expand some Social Security benefits

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The House is expected to try next week to pass a Social Security -related bill to ensure benefits for workers who are also eligible for other pensions.

The bill would repeal the so-called “government pensions offset” The measure would reinstate full Social Security benefits.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated the bill would add some $196 billion to the federal deficit over a decade .