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114TH CONGRESS

2d Session 

REPORT

2016

114–271 

Calendar No. 507 

PRESIDENTIAL ALLOWANCE 

MODERNIZATION ACT OF 2016 

R E P O R T 

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND 

GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS 

UNITED STATES SENATE 

TO ACCOMPANY

S. 1411 

TO AMEND THE ACT OF AUGUST 25, 1958, COMMONLY KNOWN 

AS THE ‘‘FORMER PRESIDENTS ACT OF 1958’’, WITH RESPECT TO 

THE MONETARY ALLOWANCE PAYABLE TO A FORMER PRESIDENT, 

AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 

JUNE 7, 2016.—Ordered to be printed 


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COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS 

RON JOHNSON, Wisconsin, Chairman 

JOHN MCCAIN, Arizona 

ROB PORTMAN, Ohio 

RAND PAUL, Kentucky 

JAMES LANKFORD, Oklahoma 

MICHAEL B. ENZI, Wyoming 

KELLY AYOTTE, New Hampshire 

JONI ERNST, Iowa 

BEN SASSE, Nebraska 

THOMAS R. CARPER, Delaware 

CLAIRE MCCASKILL, Missouri 

JON TESTER, Montana 

TAMMY BALDWIN, Wisconsin 

HEIDI HEITKAMP, North Dakota 

CORY A. BOOKER, New Jersey 

GARY C. PETERS, Michigan 

CHRISTOPHER R. HIXON, Staff Director 

GABRIELLE D’ADAMO SINGER, Chief Counsel 

PATRICK J. BAILEY, Chief Counsel for Governmental Affairs 

GABRIELLE A. BATKIN, Minority Staff Director 

JOHN P. KILVINGTON, Minority Deputy Staff Director 

MARY BETH SCHULTZ, Minority Chief Counsel 

KATHERINE C. SYBENGA, Minority Chief Counsel for Governmental Affairs 

LAURA W. KILBRIDE, Chief Clerk 


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Calendar No. 507 

114TH CONGRESS SENATE REPORT " ! 2d Session 114–271 

PRESIDENTIAL ALLOWANCE MODERNIZATION ACT OF 

2016 

JUNE 7, 2016.—Ordered to be printed 

Mr. JOHNSON, from the Committee on Homeland Security and 

Governmental Affairs, submitted the following 

R E P O R T 

[To accompany S. 1411] 

The Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, 

to which was referred the bill (S. 1411) to amend the Act of August 

25, 1958, commonly known as the ‘‘Former Presidents Act of 1958’’, 

with respect to the monetary allowance payable to a former President, and for other purposes, reports favorably thereon with an 

amendment in the nature of a substitute and recommends that the 

bill, as amended, do pass. 

CONTENTS 

Page 

I. Purpose and Summary ............................................................................... 1 

II. Background and Need for Legislation ....................................................... 2 

III. Legislative History ...................................................................................... 3 

IV. Section-by-Section Analysis ........................................................................ 4 

V. Evaluation of Regulatory Impact ............................................................... 4 

VI. Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate ............................................. 5 

VII. Changes in Existing Law Made by the Bill, as Reported ........................ 7 

I. PURPOSE AND SUMMARY

S. 1411, the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act of 2016, 

amends the Former Presidents Act of 1958 (FPA) to modernize the 

monetary allowances and pensions payable to former presidents. 

Specifically, it revises provisions relating to presidential pensions 

to allow a former President an annuity of $200,000 and additional 

monetary allowance of $200,000 per year for office space and staff 

to conduct his or her duties as a former president. It also reduces 

such monetary allowance by the amount that a former president’s 

adjusted gross income in a taxable year exceeds $400,000. 


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1Wendy Ginsberg & Daniel J. Richardson, Cong. Research Serv. RL34631, Former Presidents: 

Pensions, Office Allowances, and Other Federal Benefits 1 (March 2016) [hereinafter Cong. Research Serv., March 2016 Report]. 2 Id. 3 Id.; 3 U.S.C. § 102, note. 4S. Rep. No. 85–47, at 2 (1957). 

5 3 U.S.C. 102, note, Former Presidents; Allowance; Selection, Compensation, and Status of Office Staff; Office Space; Widow’s Allowance, Termination; ‘‘Former President’’ Defined (a). 6 Cong. Research Serv., March 2016 Report at 3. 

7 3 U.S.C. § 102, note, Former Presidents; Allowance; Selection, Compensation, and Status of 

Office Staff; Office Space; Widow’s Allowance, Termination; ‘‘Former President’’ Defined (e). 8 3 U.S.C. § 102, note, Former Presidents; Allowance; Selection, Compensation, and Status of 

Office Staff; Office Space; Widow’s Allowance, Termination; ‘‘Former President’’ Defined (b), (c), 

and (g). 9 Cong. Research Serv., March 2016 Report at 7–8. Mrs. Nancy Reagan waived the widow’s pension upon her husband’s death, pursuant to P.L. 85–745; however she received $6,000 towards franking privileges. Id. at 8. 10 Cong. Research Serv., March 2016 Report at 5. 11 Id. at 5. 12 3 U.S.C. § 102, note; Cong. Research Serv., March 2016 Report at 1–2. 

This bill would also clarify that a widow or widower of a former 

president is eligible for a survivor’s annuity and increases that annual annuity from $20,000 to $100,000. 

II. BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION

Prior to 1958, former presidents did not receive a pension or any 

other financial assistance from the Federal Government.1 While 

some former presidents returned to comfortable lives after leaving 

office, others, like President Harry S. Truman, struggled financially.2 The FPA was enacted in 1958 to provide former United 

States presidents with ‘‘a pension, support staff, office support, 

travel funds, and mailing privileges’’ after they leave office.3 The 

FPA was intended to ‘‘maintain the dignity’’ of the Office of the 

President.4

Under the FPA, as amended, a former president receives a pension that is equal to the annual pay of the head of an Executive 

department.5 This amount was $203,700 in 2015 and increased to 

$205,700 in 2016.6 Additionally, the FPA provides an annual pension of $20,000 to the widow of a former president.7

In addition to the Federal pension, the FPA requires Congress to 

appropriate funds, and the General Services Administration (GSA) 

to provide funds to former presidents to cover their staffing and office needs.8 The statutory obligation arises from Congress’s recognition that former presidents should have funding to continue their 

required official business as former presidents. 

In fiscal year (FY) 2015, Congress appropriated $3.25 million to 

GSA to cover the annual allowance for the four living former Presidents, as well as former First Lady Nancy Reagan.9 Of that total 

appropriation, $1.182 million went toward office space rentals, including $429,000 in rent for former President Bill Clinton and 

$434,000 for former President George W. Bush.10 According to 

GSA, annual non-security, non-pension costs for all of the benefits 

provided to former presidents totaled over $2.4 million in FY 

2015.11

In addition to the FPA, the Presidential Transition Act provides 

an outgoing president with seven months of ‘‘transition’’ services, 

and Federal law requires that former presidents and their spouses 

(and children under the age of 16) receive lifetime Secret Service 

protection.12


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13 * * * 14Philip Rucker, Tom Hamburger, & Alexander Becker, How the Clintons went from ‘dead broke’ to rich: Bill earned $104.9 million for speeches, The Washington Post (June 26, 2014), 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-the-clintons-went-from-dead-broke-to-rich-billearned-1049-million-for-speeches/2014/06/26/8fa0b372-fd3a-11e3-8176-f2c941cf35f1lstory.html. 15 Jennifer Epstein, George W. Bush Made $15M on Speaking Circuit, Politico (May 21, 2011), 

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55372.html. 16Mike McIntire, Clintons Made $109 Million in Last 8 Years, The New York Times (April 

5, 2008), http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/us/politics/05clintons.html. 17Lynn Sherr, George W. Bush Lands $7 Million Book Deal, The Daily Beast (March 19, 

2009), http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2009/03/19/george-w-bush-lands-7-million-bookdeal.html. 

Press reports indicate that former presidents have earned millions of dollars in speaking fees and book deals after leaving office.13 The two most recent former presidents, President Clinton 

and President George W. Bush, have reportedly earned millions 

since leaving office, with President Clinton earning more than $100 

million between 2001 and 2013,14 and President George W. Bush 

earning at least $15 million for paid speeches since leaving office 

in 2009.15 In addition to speaking fees, both former Presidents 

have reportedly benefited from book deals: President Clinton received a $15 million advance for his memoir in 2004 16 and President George W. Bush was paid $7 million for his memoir.17

S. 1411 would set the annual pension for a former president at 

$200,000, adjusted for inflation going forward. In addition, the legislation would set the annual allowance for office expenses at 

$200,000. This amount would be reduced by one dollar for every 

dollar a former President earns above $400,000. These amounts are 

subject to cost-of-living increases as provided for in the Social Security Act. 

S. 1411 also increases the pension provided to a widow or widower of a former president—an amount that has gone unchanged 

since the original legislation was enacted in 1958—increasing the 

annual annuity from $20,000 to $100,000. 

The Presidential Allowance Modernization Act of 2016 ensures 

that the Secret Service will work with GSA to determine the 

amount of the allowance that is needed to pay for the increased 

cost of doing business that is attributable to the security needs of 

the former president. Finally, S. 1411, as amended, would ensure 

that former presidents do not have to break existing lease agreements because of the reduction in benefits provided for in the legislation. 

III. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY

S. 1411, the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act of 2016, 

was introduced on May 21, 2015, by Senator Joni Ernst. Senators 

Mark Kirk and Marco Rubio cosponsored the bill. The bill was referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental 

Affairs. 

The Committee considered S. 1411 at a business meeting on February 10, 2016. During the business meeting, a substitute amendment by Senator Ernst was offered and adopted. Both the amendment and the legislation as modified were passed by voice vote 

with Senators Johnson, McCain, Portman, Paul, Lankford, Ayotte, 

Ernst, Sasse, Carper, McCaskill, Tester, Baldwin, Heitkamp, Booker, and Peters present. 


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IV. SECTION-BY-SECTION ANALYSIS OF THE BILL, AS REPORTED

Section 1. Short title 

This section establishes the short title of the bill as the ‘‘Presidential Allowance Modernization Act.’’ 

Section 2. Amendments 

This section sets the former presidential pension at $200,000 per 

year, plus the annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, and 

an additional monetary allowance of $200,000 per year. A former 

president is not eligible to collect the pension and allowance when 

serving in an appointive or elective office in the federal government. 

The amount of the allowance would be reduced one dollar for 

every dollar a former president earns above $400,000 per year. It 

sets disclosure requirements to ensure the privacy of former presidents. It ensures that the Secret Service is consulted on security 

costs to determine the amount of the monetary allowance that is 

necessary to pay the increased cost of doing business that is attributable to the security needs of the former president. 

This section also increases the pension for the surviving spouse 

of a former president from $20,000 a year to $100,000 annually, 

taking into account annual cost-of-living increases equal to those 

provided under the Social Security Act and includes a technical correction to make the recipient of such pension gender neutral. 

Section 3. Rule of construction 

This section clarifies and affirms that nothing in the legislation 

alters the funding of the security or protection of a former president. 

Section 4. Transition rules 

This section sets rules for implementing this legislation with respect to currently qualifying former presidents and their widows or 

widowers. 

Section 5. Applicability 

This section makes clear that the new reduction in monetary allowance should not apply to current former presidents in such a 

way as to make the former president break or have trouble paying 

a current lease. 

V. EVALUATION OF REGULATORY IMPACT

Pursuant to the requirements of paragraph 11(b) of rule XXVI of 

the Standing Rules of the Senate, the Committee has considered 

the regulatory impact of this bill and determined that the bill will 

have no regulatory impact within the meaning of the rules. The 

Committee agrees with the Congressional Budget Office’s statement that the bill contains no intergovernmental or private-sector 

mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act 

(UMRA) and would impose no costs on state, local, or tribal governments. 


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VI. CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE COST ESTIMATE

U.S. CONGRESS, 

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE, 

Washington, DC, March 10, 2016. 

Hon. RON JOHNSON, Chairman, 

Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, 

U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. 

DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: The Congressional Budget Office has prepared the enclosed cost estimate for S. 1411, the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act of 2015. 

If you wish further details on this estimate, we will be pleased 

to provide them. The CBO staff contact is Dan Ready. 

Sincerely, 

KEITH HALL. 

Enclosure. 

S. 1411—Presidential Allowance Modernization Act of 2015 

Summary: S. 1411 would decrease the pensions of former Presidents, increase the pensions of surviving spouses of former Presidents, and limit the allowances provided to each former President 

for staff, office space, and other related expenses. 

CBO estimates that implementing the legislation would reduce 

outlays by $11 million over the 2017–2021 period, assuming that 

appropriations are reduced by those amounts. Because enacting S. 

1411 would not affect direct spending or revenues, pay-as-you-go 

procedures do not apply. 

CBO estimates that enacting S. 1411 would not increase net direct spending or on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 

10-year periods beginning in 2027. 

S. 1411 contains no intergovernmental mandates as defined in 

the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (UMRA) and would not affect 

the budgets of state, local, or tribal governments. 

S. 1411 would impose a private-sector mandate, as defined in 

UMRA, by decreasing the pensions of former Presidents. The cost 

of complying with the mandate would be the total decrease in pension income earned by former Presidents (who left office before enactment of this bill) and would fall well below the annual threshold 

established in UMRA for private-sector mandates ($154 million in 

2016, adjusted annually for inflation). 

Estimated cost to the Federal Government: The estimated budgetary effect of S. 1411 is shown in the following table. The savings 

fall in budget function 800 (general government). 

By fiscal year, in millions of dollars— 

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2017–2021 

CHANGES IN SPENDING SUBJECT TO APPROPRIATION 

Estimated Authorization Level .................................................. ¥2 ¥3 ¥3 ¥3 ¥3 ¥13 

Estimated Outlays .................................................................... ¥2 ¥2 ¥2 ¥2 ¥2 ¥11 

Note: Components may not sum to totals because of rounding. 

Basis of estimate: Assuming S. 1411 will be enacted near the beginning of fiscal year 2017, CBO estimates that the legislation 

would save $11 million over the 2017–2021 period. Those savings 


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arise from changes to Presidential pensions and allowances afforded to former Presidents. 

Presidential pensions 

Under the bill, the annual pensions provided to former Presidents would initially drop by about $6,000 to $200,000, while a surviving spouse’s pension would increase from $20,000 to $100,000. 

Both of those annual amounts would be indexed to inflation. Assuming that the four former Presidents currently collecting a pension continue to do so and that President Obama would begin collecting a pension early in calendar year 2017, the bill’s provisions 

affecting such benefits would result in a savings totaling less than 

$200,000 over the next five years, CBO estimates. (Currently, there 

are no surviving spouses of deceased former Presidents.) 

Allowances for former Presidents 

In 2016, $2.4 million was appropriated for allowances to former 

Presidents—an average of $600,000 per President. Such allowances 

are used to cover costs for offices, staff, supplies, and other services 

intended to help former Presidents perform duties related to their 

unofficial public status. S. 1411 would reduce that amount to a 

maximum of $200,000 per President, indexed to inflation. Allowances would decrease by $1 for every dollar over $400,000 a former 

President earned in the previous year, also indexed to inflation. 

On the basis of publicly available information about the income 

of former Presidents in recent years, CBO expects that at least two 

former Presidents would earn enough that they would not be eligible for an allowance beginning in 2017. As a result, assuming appropriations are reduced by the necessary amounts each year and 

accounting for the retirement of President Obama (which affects 

part of the fiscal year), implementing the bill would save $1.8 million in 2017. The savings would grow to $2.2 million in 2018 when 

President Obama will have been retired for a full fiscal year, and 

would total $11 million over the 2017–2021 period. (If the President elected in 2016 leaves office on January 20, 2021, the savings 

would be slightly greater that year.) 

Pay-As-You-Go considerations: None. 

Estimated impact on state, local, and tribal governments: S. 1411 

contains no intergovernmental mandates as defined in UMRA and 

would not affect the budgets of state, local, or tribal governments. 

Estimated impact on the private sector: S. 1411 would impose a 

private-sector mandate, as defined in UMRA, by decreasing the 

pensions of former Presidents. Under current law, former Presidents receive an annual pension equal to the rate of basic pay for 

Cabinet Secretaries, which is about $206,000 for calendar year 

2016. The bill would reduce an earned benefit of former Presidents 

by decreasing their federal pension to $200,000 per year, indexed 

to inflation. The cost of this mandate would be the total decrease 

in pension income earned by the former Presidents (who left office 

before enactment of this bill) and would fall well below the annual 

threshold established in UMRA for private-sector mandates ($154 

million in 2016, adjusted annually for inflation). 

Increase in long-term direct spending and deficits: CBO estimates that enacting S. 1411 would not increase net direct spending 


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or on-budget deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods 

beginning in 2027. 

Previous CBO estimate: On June 22, 2015, CBO transmitted an 

estimate for H.R. 1777, the Presidential Allowance Modernization 

Act of 2015, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on May 19, 2015. The two pieces of 

legislation are similar and CBO’s estimates of the budgetary effects 

of the two are also similar. 

Estimate prepared by: Federal Costs: Dan Ready; Impact on 

State, Local, and Tribal Governments: Jon Sperl; Impact on the 

Private Sector: Paige Piper/Bach. 

Estimate approved by: H. Samuel Papenfuss, Deputy Assistant 

Director for Budget Analysis. 

VII. CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW MADE BY THE BILL, AS REPORTED

In compliance with paragraph 12 of rule XXVI of the Standing 

Rules of the Senate, changes in existing law made by the bill, as 

reported, are shown as follows: (existing law proposed to be omitted 

is enclosed in brackets, new matter is printed in italic, and existing 

law in which no change is proposed is shown in roman): 

FORMER PRESIDENTS ACT OF 1958 

* * * * * * * 

SEC. 102. COMPENSATION OF THE PRESIDENT 

ø(a) Each former President shall be entitled for the remainder of 

his life to receive from the United States a monetary allowance at 

a rate per annum, payable monthly by the Secretary of the Treasury, which is equal to the annual rate of basic pay, as in effect 

from time to time, of the head of an executive department, as defined in section 101 of title 5, United States Code. However, such 

allowance shall not be paid for any period during which such 

former President holds an appointive or elective office or position 

in or under the Federal Government or the government of the District of Columbia to which is attached a rate of pay other than a 

nominal rate. 

ø(b) The Administrator of General Services shall, without regard 

to the civil-service and classification laws, provide for each former 

President an office staff. Persons employed under this subsection 

shall be selected by the former President and shall be responsible 

only to him for the performance of their duties. Each former President shall fix basic rates of compensation for persons employed for 

him under this paragraph which in the aggregate shall not exceed 

$96,000 per annum except that for the first 30-month period during 

which a former President is entitled to staff assistance under this 

subsection, such rates of compensation in the aggregate shall not 

exceed $150,000 per annum. The annual rate of compensation payable to any such person shall not exceed the highest annual rate 

of basic pay now or hereafter provided by law for positions at level 

II of the Executive Schedule under section 5313 of title 5, United 

States Code. Amounts provided for ‘Allowances and Office Staff for 

Former Presidents’ may be used to pay fees of an independent contractor who is not a member of the staff of the office of a former 

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dent in connection with the transfer of such records to the National 

Archives and Records Administration or a Presidential Library 

without regard to the limitation on staff compensation set forth 

herein. 

ø(c) The Administrator of General Services shall furnish for each 

former President suitable office space appropriately furnished and 

equipped, as determined by the Administrator, at such place within 

the United States as the former President shall specify. 

ø(d) [Repealed. Pub. L. 86–682, § 12(c), Sept. 2, 1960, 74 Stat. 

730. See sections 3214 and 3216 of title 39.]¿ 

(a) IN GENERAL.—Each former President shall be entitled for the 

remainder of his or her life to receive from the United States— (1) an annuity at the rate of $200,000 per year, subject to subsection (c); and 

(2) a monetary allowance at the rate of $200,000 per year, 

subject to subsections (c) and (d). 

(b) DURATION; FREQUENCY.— 

(1) IN GENERAL.—The annuity and allowance under subsection (a) shall each— 

(A) commence on the day after the date on which an individual becomes a former President; 

(B) terminate on the date on which the former President 

dies; and 

(C) be payable by the Secretary of the Treasury on a 

monthly basis. 

(2) APPOINTEE OF ELECTIVE POSITIONS.—The annuity and allowance under subsection (a) shall not be payable for any period during which a former President holds an appointive or 

elective position in or under the Federal Government to which 

is attached a rate of pay other than a nominal rate. 

(c) COST-OF-LIVING INCREASES.—Effective December 1 of each 

year; each annuity and allowance under subsection (a) that commenced before that date shall be increased by the same percentage 

by which benefit amounts under title II of the Social Security Act 

(42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.) are increased, effective as of that date, as a 

result of a determination under section 215(i) of that Act (42 U.S.C. 

415(i)). 

(d) LIMITATION ON MONETARY ALLOWANCE.— (1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provision in this 

section, the monetary allowance payable under subsection (a)(2) 

to a former President for any 12-month period— 

(A) except as provided in subparagraph (B), may not exceed the amount by which— 

(i) the monetary allowance that (but for this subsection) would otherwise be so payable for such 12- 

month period; exceeds (if at all) 

(ii) the applicable reduction amount for such 12- 

month period; and 

(B) shall not be less than the amount determined under 

paragraph (4). 

(2) DEFINITION.— (A) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of paragraph (1), the 

term ‘applicable reduction amount’ means, with respect to 

any former President and in connection with any 12-month 

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(i) the sum of— 

(I) the adjusted gross income (as defined in section 62 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986) of 

the former President for the most recent taxable 

year for which a tax return is available; and 

(II) any interest excluded from the gross income 

of the former President under section 103 of such 

Code for such taxable year, exceeds (if at all) (ii) $400,000, subject to subparagraph (C). 

(B) JOINT RETURNS.—In the case of a joint return, subclauses (I) and (II) of subparagraph (A)(i) shall be applied 

by taking into account both the amounts properly allocable 

to the former President and the amounts properly allocable 

to the spouse of the former President. 

(C) COST-OF-LIVING INCREASES.—The dollar amount 

specified in subparagraph (A)(ii) shall be adjusted at the 

same time that, and by the same percentage by which, the 

monetary allowance of the former President is increased 

under subsection (c) (disregarding this subsection). 

(3) DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENT.— 

(A) DEFINITIONS.—In this paragraph— 

(i) the terms ‘return’ and ‘return information’ have 

the meanings given those terms in section 6103(b) of 

the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; and 

(ii) the term ‘Secretary’ means the Secretary of the 

Treasury or the Secretary of the Treasury’s delegate. 

(B) REQUIREMENT.—A former President may not receive 

a monetary allowance under subsection (a)(2) unless the 

former President discloses to the Secretary, upon the request of the Secretary, any return or return information of 

the former President or spouse of the former President that 

the Secretary determines is necessary for the purpose of calculating the applicable reduction amount under paragraph 

(2) of this subsection. 

(C) CONFIDENTIALITY.—Except as provided in section 

6103 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary may not, 

with respect to a return or return information disclosed to 

the Secretary under subparagraph (B)— 

(i) disclose the return or return information to any 

entity or person; or 

(ii) use the return or return information for any purpose other than to calculate the applicable reduction 

amount under paragraph (2). 

(4) INCREASED COSTS DUE TO SECURITY NEEDS.—With respect 

to the monetary allowance that would be payable to a former 

President under subsection (a)(2) for any 12-month period but 

for the limitation under paragraph (1), the Administrator of 

General Services, in coordination with the Director of the 

United States Secret Service, shall determine the amount of the 

allowance that is needed to pay the increased cost of doing business that is attributable to the security needs of the former 

President. 

(e) WIDOWS AND WIDOWERS.—The øwidow¿ widow or widower of 

each former President shall be entitled to receive from the United 


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States a monetary allowance at a rate of $20,000 per annum, payable monthly by the Secretary of the Treasury, if such øwidow¿ 

widow or widower shall waive the right to each other annuity or 

pension to which øshe¿ she or he is entitled under any other Act 

of Congress. The monetary allowance of such øwidow¿ widow or 

widower— 

* * * * * * * 

(f) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the term ‘former President’ means a person— 

(1) * * * 

(2) * * * 

(3) * * * 

(g) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There are authorized to 

be appropriated to the Administrator of General Services up to 

$1,000,000 for each former President and up to $500,000 for the 

spouse of each former President each fiscal year for security and 

travel related expenses: Provided, That under the provisions set 

forth in section 3056, paragraph (a), subparagraph (3) of title 18, 

United States Code, the former President and/or spouse was not receiving protection for a lifetime provided by the United States Secret Service under section 3056 paragraph (a) subparagraph (3) of 

title 18, United States Code; the protection provided by the United 

States Secret Service expired at its designated time; or the protection provided by the United States Secret Service was declined 

prior to authorized expiration in lieu of these funds. 

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