Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019

Floor Speech

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Ms. DelBENE. Madam Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding.

I rise today in support of the SECURE Act. It is time that we address the retirement crisis in our country.

The SECURE Act takes several important steps to make it easier for Americans to save for retirement, and one important example is helping provide retirement benefit opportunities to home care workers.

Home care workers provide critical services for the elderly and disabled. Their service is vital to ensure that patients under their care lead a dignified life, and it is only right that they are able to have a secure retirement.

The SECURE Act fixes a tax inequity that unintentionally prohibits many home care workers from participating in a 401(k) or contributing to an IRA.

If we do not pass the SECURE Act, between 15,000 and 30,000 workers in my home State of Washington could be kicked out of their defined contribution plan. With passage of the SECURE Act, home care workers will rightfully have the same opportunity to save for retirement as other workers.

I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes.''

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