Ron DeSantis House Sponsor for Marco Rubio's 'Let Seniors Work' Act

U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., joined on-board as the House sponsor of U.S. Sen. Marco Rubios, R-Fla., Let Seniors Work Act" on Tuesday. The proposal will repeal the Retirement Earnings Test and will stop the 12.4 percent payroll tax for working seniors.

Senior citizens should not face punitive taxes if they choose to continue working beyond the retirement age, DeSantis said. They should not be taxed further but instead should be free to contribute to our economy. The Let Seniors Work Act will empower seniors by giving them the freedom to remain in the workforce without being subject to counterproductive penalties. I look forward to working with Sen. Rubio to advance this important legislation.

"There are currently too many perverse disincentives for healthy and hard-working seniors to leave the workforce instead of staying in it to the benefit of our economy, Rubio said. We need to make sure that seniors can keep working if they so choose without being hit by de facto financial penalties. I'm excited to have Ron DeSantis leading this effort in the House. As representatives of Florida's large senior population, we know what a boon this reform would be to our entire country but especially to our state."