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108TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2290

To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide monthly benefits 

for certain uninsured children living without parents. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 2, 2003

Mr. ANDREWS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Ways and Means 

A BILL

To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide 

monthly benefits for certain uninsured children living 

without parents.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Social Security Unin5 sured Children’s Entitlement Act of 2003’’. 

6 SEC. 2. BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN UNINSURED CHILDREN. 

7 (a) IN GENERAL.—Title II of the Social Security Act 

8 is amended by adding after section 234 (42 U.S.C. 434) 

9 the following new section: 
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1 ‘‘BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN UNINSURED CHILDREN

2 ‘‘Eligibility 

3 ‘‘SEC. 235. (a) Every individual who would not be 

4 entitled to child’s insurance benefits under section 202(d) 

5 upon filing application therefor and who— 

6 ‘‘(1) has not attained the age of 18 and has not 

7 married, 

8 ‘‘(2)(A) has no living parent or (B) with respect 

9 to any parent (including an adoptive parent) who is 

10 living, has provided to the Commissioner of Social 

11 Security (in such form and manner as shall be pre12 scribed in regulations of the Commissioner) a nota13 rized statement that such individual has had no con14 tact with such parent for at least 2 years and that 

15 reasonable attempts by a guardian or appropriate 

16 government agency to locate such parent have not 

17 been successful, 

18 ‘‘(3) is a resident of the United States (as de19 fined in subsection (c)), and is (A) a citizen of the 

20 United States or (B) an alien lawfully admitted for 

21 permanent residence who has resided in the United 

22 States (as defined in subsection 210(i)) continuously 

23 during the 5 years immediately preceding the month 

24 in which he or she files application under this sec25 tion, and 
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1 ‘‘(4) has filed application for benefits under this 

2 section, 

3 shall (subject to the limitations in this section) be entitled 

4 to a benefit under this section for each month beginning 

5 with the first month in which he or she becomes so entitled 

6 to such benefits and ending with the month preceding the 

7 month in which he or she attains 18 years of age or mar8 ries. No application under this section which is filed by 

9 an individual more than 3 months before the first month 

10 in which he or she meets the requirements of paragraphs 

11 (1), (2), and (3) shall be accepted as an application for 

12 purposes of this section. 

13 ‘‘Benefit Amount 

14 ‘‘(b) The benefit amount to which an individual is en15 titled under this section for any month shall be the larger 

16 of $200 or the amount most recently established in lieu 

17 thereof under section 215(i). 

18 ‘‘Suspension Where Individual Is Residing Outside the 

19 United States 

20 ‘‘(c) The benefit to which any individual is entitled 

21 under this section for any month shall not be paid if, dur22 ing such month, such individual is not a resident of the 

23 United States. For purposes of this subsection, the term 

24 ‘‘United States’’ means the 50 States and the District of 

25 Columbia. 
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1 ‘‘Treatment as Monthly Insurance Benefits 

2 ‘‘(d) For purposes of subsections (t) and (u) of sec3 tion 202, a monthly benefit under this section shall be 

4 treated as a monthly insurance benefit payable under sec5 tion 202. 

6 ‘‘Annual Reimbursement of Federal Old-Age and 

7 Survivors Insurance Trust Fund 

8 ‘‘(e) There are authorized to be appropriated to the 

9 Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund for 

10 the fiscal year ending September 30, 2004, and for each 

11 fiscal year thereafter, such sums as the Commissioner of 

12 Social Security deems necessary on account of— 

13 ‘‘(1) payments made under this section during 

14 the second preceding fiscal year and all fiscal years 

15 prior thereto to individuals entitled to benefits under 

16 this section, 

17 ‘‘(2) the additional administrative expenses re18 sulting from the payments described in paragraph 

19 (1), and 

20 ‘‘(3) any loss in interest to such Trust Fund re21 sulting from such payments and expenses, 

22 in order to place such Trust Fund in the same position 

23 at the end of such fiscal year as it would have been in 

24 if such payments had not been made.’’. 
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1 (b) COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENTS.—Section 

2 215(i)(2)(A)(ii) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 415(i)(2)(A)(ii)) 

3 is amended—

4 (1) in subdivision (II), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 

5 end; 

6 (2) in subdivision (III), by striking ‘‘1978.’’ and 

7 inserting ‘‘1978, and’’; 

8 (3) by adding at the end the following new 

9 subsivision: 

10 ‘‘(IV) the benefit amount to which an individual 

11 is entitled for that month under 235.’’; and 

12 (4) in the matter following subclause (IV) 

13 (added by paragraph (3)), by striking ‘‘subdivisions 

14 (I), (II), and (III)’’ and inserting ‘‘subdivisions (I), 

15 (II), (III), and (IV)’’. 

16 SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

17 The amendments made by this Act shall take effect 

18 with respect to application filed on or after January 1, 

19 2004.

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