LCO No. 780 1 of 1 General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5956 January Session, 2019 LCO No. 780 Referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS Introduced by: REP. FERRARO, 117th Dist. AN ACT CONCERNING SOCIAL SECURITY SURVIVOR BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN TEACHERS. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: That chapter 167a of the general statutes be amended to allow a 1 surviving spouse who is a teacher, and who at any point paid into the 2 Social Security system, to collect Social Security survivor benefits, 3 provided the deceased spouse also paid into the Social Security 4 system. 5 Statement of Purpose: To allow certain teachers to receive certain Social Security survivor benefits.