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Show House Votes 333-14 Okeh Of Old-Age Pension Bill i and employe of stat and local governments. Thia might mean the Institution of a (tamp book plan for 750.000 servant and their ' housewife employers, to collect ' the security taxes. who by illness or accident can never work again. 3. Increase the pay roll taxes on employe and employer. The tax would go from the present 1 on each, to 14 next year: 2 in 1951: 2i'.i in 1960 : 3 in 1B65: and 31""!. on each in 1970. The tax would be collected on the first $3600 of a person s income. in-come. It is now taken on the first $3000. The tax will go up automatically to In 1950, under present law. Among new groups wrapped Into the program are self-employed persons, domestic servants WASHINGTON, Oct. WV-Riding WV-Riding a triumphant 333 to 14 house' vote, legislation vastly expanding ex-panding the nation's social security se-curity program moved over to the aenate Thursday. It would add 11,000.000 to the 39,000,000 worker now covered by old-age Insurance. Its sponsors voiced hope It would lessen strikes and strife over lsbor demands for pension plans financed wholly by employers. employ-ers. In the federal program, workers and employers share equally tha , cost of tha benefit tha worker' later receive. Be Paasag Senate approval la considered virtually certain sometime before be-fore the 1050 fall election. Chairman George (D., Ga.) of the aenate finance committee said the senate ia bound to vote for higher security benefits, but will not ba able to act before the second sec-ond session of the 81st congress convene In January. The new bill would raise the minimum old-sge benefit from $10 a month to $25 a month. It would increase the maximum benefit for an elderly eouple from $85 to around $128 a month. Benefits Bene-fits are based on a person's average aver-age wage and the number of his working years during which ha paid pay roll taxea into the program. pro-gram. Boost Benefit In addition to blanketing new milliona under old-age and sur-I sur-I vivors Insurance, for a total of 1 4. 000,000 covered workers, tha 201-page bill would: 1. Boost benefits by T0 to 80 or mora. 2. Create new diaability Insurance, In-surance, to taks care of persons |