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Work Opportunities and Savings Empowerment (WOSE) Act of 2025

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Real bill

Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act

External ID
HR/119/8884
Policy area
Social Welfare
Latest action
2026-07-23
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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.

Constitutional concerns with the original

  1. The original bill may rely on broad spending power without clear enumerated authority if it imposes conditions on states that are not voluntarily accepted.
  2. If the bill mandates state action to change eligibility criteria for state-administered programs, it could violate the Tenth Amendment's anti-commandeering principle.

Solution text

This Act establishes a five-year demonstration project within the Social Security Administration to increase the earnings threshold for disabled beneficiaries under Title II and Title XVI of the Social Security Act. For beneficiaries enrolled in the demonstration, the substantial gainful activity level is raised to $2,190 per month (indexed for inflation), and the asset limit for SSI is raised to $10,000 for individuals and $20,000 for couples. Benefits are phased out gradually at a rate of $1 for every $3 of earnings above the threshold, until benefits cease entirely at 300% of the federal poverty level. To support state-sponsored employment and training programs, the Act appropriates funds to the Department of Health and Human Services for competitive grants to states that establish voluntary, time-limited programs to provide job coaching, transportation assistance, and workplace accommodations for disabled individuals transitioning from benefits to work. States must match 20% of the grant funds. No state is required to participate. The Act includes a sunset provision after five years, with a mandatory evaluation by the Government Accountability Office to assess the impact on employment rates, benefit costs, and participant well-being. The Social Security Administration shall report annually to Congress on the demonstration's progress. Federal funding for the grants is capped at $500 million over five years, sourced from general revenue.

Operative provisions

funding source
General revenue from the U.S. Treasury, not from the Social Security trust funds
funding amount
$500 million over five years for state grants, with administrative costs from SSA's existing appropriation
sunset years
5
oversight body
Government Accountability Office (GAO) for evaluation; Social Security Administration for program administration and annual reporting
enforcement mechanism
SSA shall adjust benefit calculations automatically; grant recipients must comply with reporting requirements or face clawback of funds; no private right of action
effective date
180 days after enactment

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.

Constitutional citations

  • → 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)

Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 Amendment X

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