Real bill currently in Congress c/o HR/119/8884

Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act

Policy area: Social Welfare ▲ 43 days since action Sponsor: Austin Scott, GA-08, R → Congress.gov

Latest action (2026-07-23): Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

What should pass

“AI Consensus Solution”

Work Opportunities and Savings Empowerment (WOSE) Act of 2025

To increase employment among disabled Americans by reducing financial disincentives and administrative barriers in federal benefit programs, such as raising the asset limit and simplifying the work rules for SSDI and SSI recipients.

Bipartisan rationale: Democrats' priorities: protects disabled workers from poverty, reduces financial cliffs, ensures access to health care and support services. Republicans' priorities: promotes work and self-sufficiency, limits federal spending with a sunset and cap, uses competitive grants without mandates, requires state matching to encourage local responsibility.

Funding: General revenue from the U.S. Treasury, no $500 million over five years f Sunset 5y Oversight: Government Accountability Offi Enforcement: SSA shall adjust benefit calculation

Vote-count path: House: ~260 votes (180 Democrats + 80 Republicans from moderate and rural districts); Senate: ~65 votes (45 Democrats + 20 Republicans from states with high disability populations).

→ Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 (Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States) → Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 (To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers) → Tenth Amendment (The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people)

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