Clergy Act

This bill gives certain members of the clergy and Christian Science practitioners a two-year period to undo a choice they previously made to opt out of paying Social Security and Medicare taxes on their earnings from religious work. Under current law, these individuals can permanently opt out of these programs for religious or personal belief reasons, but that means they won't receive Social Security or Medicare benefits in retirement unless they earned enough credits from other jobs. The bill also requires the Internal Revenue Service to create a plan to let eligible clergy and Christian Science practitioners know they have the option to reverse their previous decision to opt out.

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