Social Security Plan Would Phase Out Taxes in West Virginia

Lawmakers in West Virginia overwhelmingly passed a bill this week to phase out state taxes on Social Security payments.

Blank U.S. Treasury checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility in Philadelphia, Pa., on July 18, 2011. William Thomas Cain/Getty Images

Lawmakers in West Virginia overwhelmingly passed a bill this week to phase out state taxes on Social Security payments.

In 2019, the Legislature passed a bill cutting the income tax on Social Security benefits for the state’s lowest earners—those making less than $100,000 filing jointly and $50,000 for a single person—over three years.