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HIRE Act

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the work opportunity credit and to make employers of social security disability insurance beneficiaries eligible for such credit, and for other purposes.

Introduced Dec 9, 2025

Latest action (Dec 9, 2025) Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Referred to
Ways and Means Committee
Policy area
Taxation
Issues
Labor & Wages

Summary
  • Extends the work opportunity tax credit from its December 31, 2025 expiration date to December 31, 2030.
  • Makes employers of Social Security Disability Insurance beneficiaries eligible for the work opportunity tax credit.
  • Defines a qualified Social Security Disability Insurance beneficiary as an individual certified as receiving disability benefits under Social Security and hired within 60 days of that certification.
  • The amendments apply to workers hired after December 31, 2025.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
8 cosponsors

Actions (2)
  1. Dec 9, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. · house
  2. Dec 9, 2025 Introduced in House

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Full text

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

December 9, 2025

Mr. Hill of Arkansas (for himself, Ms. Davids of Kansas, Mrs. Dingell, Mr. Carey, and Ms. Malliotakis) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

A BILL

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the work opportunity credit and to make employers of social security disability insurance beneficiaries eligible for such credit, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Helping Individuals Rejoin Employment Act” or the “HIRE Act”.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF WORK OPPORTUNITY TAX CREDIT.

(a) Extension of Credit.—Section 51(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking “December 31, 2025” and inserting “December 31, 2030”.

(b) Credit for Hiring Social Security Disability Insurance Beneficiaries.—

(1) In general.—Section 51(d)(1) of such Code is amended by striking “or” at the end of subparagraph (I), by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (J) and inserting “, or”, and by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:

“(K) a qualified social security disability insurance beneficiary.”.

(2) Qualified social security disability insurance beneficiary.—Section 51(d) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

“(16) Qualified social security disability insurance beneficiary.—The term ‘qualified social security disability insurance beneficiary’ means any individual who is certified by the designated local agency as being entitled to disability insurance benefits under title II of the Social Security Act for any month ending within the 60-day period ending on the hiring date.”.

(c) Effective Date.—The amendments made by this section shall apply to individuals who begin work for the employer after December 31, 2025. <all>

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