of the higher of $400,000 or such contribution and 
benefit base for the year.’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Title II of the So-
cial Security Act is amended— 
(1) 
in 
section 
203(a)(6)(A) 
(42 
U.S.C. 
403(a)(6)(A)), by striking ‘‘85 percent of such indi-
vidual’s average indexed monthly earnings’’ and in-
serting ‘‘the sum of 85 percent of such individual’s 
average indexed monthly earnings and 1 percent of 
such individual’s excess average indexed monthly 
earnings (as defined in section 215(b)(5)(A))’’; 
(2) in section 212 (42 U.S.C. 412), by inserting 
‘‘excess average indexed monthly earnings,’’ after 
‘‘average indexed monthly earnings,’’ each place it 
appears; 
(3) in section 215(e)(1) (42 U.S.C. 415(e)(1)), 
by inserting ‘‘and before 2022’’ after ‘‘after 1974’’. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply with respect to individuals who ini-
tially become eligible (within the meaning of section 
215(a)(3)(B) of the Social Security Act) for old-age or dis-
ability insurance benefits under title II of the Social Secu-
rity Act, or who die (before becoming eligible for such ben-
efits), in any calendar year after 2021. 
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SEC. 203. ESTABLISHING THE SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST 
FUND. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 201(a) of the Social Secu-
rity Act (42 U.S.C. 401(a)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(a) There is hereby created on the books of the 
Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known 
as the ‘Social Security Trust Fund’. The Social Security 
Trust Fund shall consist of the securities held by the Sec-
retary of the Treasury for the Federal Old-Age and Sur-
vivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability 
Insurance Trust Fund and the amount standing to the 
credit of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance 
Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust 
Fund on the books of the Treasury on January 1 of the 
first calendar year beginning after the date of the enact-
ment of section 203 of Social Security 2100: A Sacred 
Trust, which securities and amount the Secretary of the 
Treasury is authorized and directed to transfer to the So-
cial Security Trust Fund, and, in addition, such gifts and 
bequests as may be made as provided in subsection (i)(1), 
and such amounts as may be appropriated to, or deposited 
in, the Social Security Trust Fund as hereinafter pro-
vided. There is hereby appropriated to the Social Security 
Trust Fund for the first fiscal year that begins after date 
of the enactment of section 203 of Social Security 2100: 
A Sacred Trust, and for each fiscal year thereafter, out 
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of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, 
amounts equivalent to 100 percent of— 
‘‘(1) the taxes imposed by chapter 21 (other 
than sections 3101(b) and 3111(b)) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to wages (as de-
fined in section 3121 of such Code) reported to the 
Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to subtitle F of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as determined 
by the Secretary of the Treasury by applying the ap-
plicable rates of tax under such chapter (other than 
sections 3101(b) and 3111(b)) to such wages, which 
wages shall be certified by the Commissioner of So-
cial Security on the basis of the records of wages es-
tablished and maintained by such Commissioner in 
accordance with such reports; and 
‘‘(2) the taxes imposed by chapter 2 (other than 
section 1401(b)) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 with respect to self-employment income (as de-
fined in section 1402 of such Code) reported to the 
Secretary of the Treasury on tax returns under sub-
title F of such Code, as determined by the Secretary 
of the Treasury by applying the applicable rate of 
tax under such chapter (other than section 1401(b)) 
to such self-employment income, which self-employ-
ment income shall be certified by the Commissioner 
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of Social Security on the basis of the records of self- 
employment income established and maintained by 
the Commissioner of Social Security in accordance 
with such returns. 
The amounts appropriated by paragraphs (1) and (2) shall 
be transferred from time to time from the general fund 
in the Treasury to the Social Security Trust Fund, such 
amounts to be determined on the basis of estimates by 
the Secretary of the Treasury of the taxes, specified in 
paragraphs (1) and (2), paid to or deposited into the 
Treasury; and proper adjustments shall be made in 
amounts subsequently transferred to the extent prior esti-
mates were in excess of or were less than the taxes speci-
fied in such paragraphs (1) and (2). All amounts trans-
ferred to the Social Security Trust Fund under the pre-
ceding sentence shall be invested by the Managing Trustee 
in the same manner and to the same extent as the other 
assets of the Trust Fund. Notwithstanding the preceding 
sentence, in any case in which the Secretary of the Treas-
ury determines that the assets of the Trust Fund would 
otherwise be inadequate to meet the Trust Fund’s obliga-
tions for any month, the Secretary of the Treasury shall 
transfer to the Trust Fund on the first day of such month 
the total amount which would have been transferred to 
the Trust Fund under this section as in effect on October 
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1, 1990; and the Trust Fund shall pay interest to the gen-
eral fund on the amount so transferred on the first day 
of any month at a rate (calculated on a daily basis, and 
applied against the difference between the amount so 
transferred on such first day and the amount which would 
have been transferred to the Trust Fund up to that day 
under the procedures in effect on January 1, 1983) equal 
to the rate earned by the investments of the Trust Fund 
in the same month under subsection (d).’’. 
(b) 
REQUIRED
ACTUARIAL
ANALYSIS.—Section 
201(c) of the Social Security Act is amended by striking 
the fourth sentence in the matter following paragraph (5) 
and inserting the following: ‘‘Such report shall also include 
actuarial analysis of the benefit cost with respect to dis-
abled beneficiaries and their auxiliaries, to retired bene-
ficiaries and their auxiliaries, and to survivor bene-
ficiaries.’’. 
(c) BOARD OF TRUSTEES.— 
(1) BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF SOCIAL SECURITY 
TRUST FUND.—Section 201(c) of the Social Security 
Act, as amended by subsection (b) of this section, is 
further amended in the matter preceding paragraph 
(1) by striking ‘‘the Federal Old-Age and Survivors 
Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability 
Insurance Trust Fund (hereinafter in this title 
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called the ‘Trust Funds’)’’ and inserting ‘‘the Social 
Security Trust Fund (in this title referred to as the 
‘Trust Fund’)’’. 
(2) CONTINUITY OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES.— 
The Board of Trustees of the Social Security Trust 
Fund created by the amendment made by subsection 
(a) shall be a continuous body with the Board of 
Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors In-
surance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability In-
surance Trust Fund in operation prior to the effec-
tive date of such amendment. Individuals serving as 
members of the Board of Trustees of the Federal 
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and 
the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund as of 
the effective date of such amendment shall serve the 
remainder of their term as members of the Board of 
Trustees of the Social Security Trust Fund. 
(d) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS RELATED TO SO-
CIAL SECURITY TRUST FUND.— 
(1) AMENDMENT TO SECTION HEADING.—The 
section heading for section 201 of the Social Secu-
rity Act is amended to read as follows: ‘‘SOCIAL SE-
CURITY TRUST FUND’’. 
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(2) BOARD OF TRUSTEES.—Section 201(c) of 
such Act, as amended by subsections (b) and (c)(1), 
is further amended— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by striking ‘‘Board of Trustees of the Trust 
Funds’’ and inserting ‘‘Board of Trustees of 
the Trust Fund’’; 
(B) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘Trust 
Funds’’ and inserting ‘‘Trust Fund’’; 
(C) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘Trust Funds’’ and in-
serting ‘‘Trust Fund’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘their’’ and inserting 
‘‘its’’; 
(D) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘either 
of the Trust Funds’’ and inserting ‘‘the Trust 
Fund’’; 
(E) in paragraph (5)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘managing the Trust 
Funds’’ and inserting ‘‘managing the 
Trust Fund’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘Trust Funds are’’ 
and inserting ‘‘Trust Fund is’’; 
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(F) in the matter following paragraph (5), 
by striking ‘‘Trust Funds’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘Trust Fund’’; and 
(G) in the second sentence in the matter 
following paragraph (5), by striking ‘‘whether 
the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance 
Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insur-
ance Trust Fund, individually and collectively, 
are’’ and inserting ‘‘whether the Social Security 
Trust Fund is’’. 
(3) INVESTMENTS.—Section 201 of such Act is 
amended in subsections (d) and (e) by striking 
‘‘Trust Funds’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘Trust Fund’’. 
(4) CREDITING OF INTEREST AND PROCEEDS 
TO TRUST FUNDS.—Section 201(f) of such Act is 
amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘the Federal Old-Age and 
Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Fed-
eral Disability Insurance Trust Fund shall be 
credited to and form a part of the Federal Old- 
Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and 
the Disability Insurance Trust Fund, respec-
tively’’ and inserting ‘‘the Social Security Trust 
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Fund shall be credited to and form a part of 
the Social Security Trust Fund’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘either of the Trust 
Funds’’ and inserting ‘‘the Trust Fund’’; and 
(C) by striking ‘‘such Trust Fund’’ and in-
serting ‘‘the Trust Fund’’. 
(5) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—Section 201(g) of 
such Act is amended— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A), by striking 
‘‘Of the amounts authorized to be made 
available out of the Federal Old-Age and 
Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the 
Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund 
under the preceding sentence’’ and all that 
follows through ‘‘(Public Law 103–296).’’; 
and 
(ii) in subparagraph (B)(i)— 
(I) by striking subclauses (II) 
and (III) and inserting the following: 
‘‘(II) the portion of such costs which 
should have been borne by the Social Security 
Trust Fund,’’; and 
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(II) by redesignating subclauses 
(IV) and (V) as subclauses (III) and 
(IV); 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘Trust Funds’’ and in-
serting ‘‘Trust Fund’’; and 
(ii) by striking the last sentence; and 
(C) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘Trust 
Funds’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘Trust Fund’’. 
(6) BENEFIT
PAYMENTS.—Section 201(h) of 
such Act is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(h) All benefit payments required to be made under 
this title shall be made only from the Social Security Trust 
Fund.’’. 
(7) GIFTS.—Section 201(i) of such Act is 
amended— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘the 
Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust 
Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust 
Fund’’ and inserting ‘‘the Social Security Trust 
Fund’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (2)(B), by striking ‘‘the 
Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust 
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Fund’’ and inserting ‘‘the Social Security Trust 
Fund’’. 
(8) TRAVEL EXPENSES.—Section 201(j) of such 
Act is amended by striking ‘‘the Federal Old-Age 
and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, or the Federal 
Disability Insurance Trust Fund (as determined ap-
propriate by the Commissioner of Social Security)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘the Social Security Trust Fund’’. 
(9) 
DEMONSTRATION
PROJECTS.—Section 
201(k) of such Act is amended by striking ‘‘the Fed-
eral Disability Insurance Trust Fund and the Fed-
eral Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, 
as determined appropriate by the Commissioner of 
Social Security’’ and inserting ‘‘the Social Security 
Trust Fund’’. 
(10) BENEFIT
CHECKS.—Section 201(m) of 
such Act is amended— 
(A) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘each of 
the Trust Funds’’ and inserting ‘‘the Social Se-
curity Trust Fund’’; 
(B) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘one of 
the Trust Funds’’ and inserting ‘‘the Trust 
Fund’’; and 
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(C) by striking ‘‘such Trust Fund’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘the Trust 
Fund’’. 
(11) CONFORMING REPEALS.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Section 201 of such 
Act is amended by striking subsections (b), (l), 
and (n). 
(B) REDESIGNATIONS.—Section 201 of 
such Act is further amended— 
(i) by redesignating subsections (c) 
through (j) as subsections (b) through (i), 
respectively; 
(ii) by redesignating subsection (k) as 
subsection (j); and 
(iii) by redesignating subsection (m) 
as subsection (k). 
(C) REFERENCES TO REDESIGNATED SEC-
TIONS.— 
(i) Section 201(a) of such Act, as 
amended by subsection (a) of this section, 
is further amended— 
(I) 
by 
striking 
‘‘subsection 
(i)(1)’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘subsection 
(h)(1)’’; and 
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(II) by striking ‘‘subsection (d)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘subsection (c)’’. 
(ii) Section 1131(b)(1) of such Act is 
amended by striking ‘‘section 201(g)(1)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘section 201(f)(1)’’. 
(e) OTHER CONFORMING AMENDMENTS TO SOCIAL 
SECURITY ACT.— 
(1) TITLE II.—Title II of the Social Security 
Act (42 U.S.C. 401 et seq.) is amended— 
(A) in section 202(x)(3)(B)(iii), by striking 
‘‘the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance 
Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insur-
ance Trust Fund, as appropriate,’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘the Social Security Trust Fund’’; 
(B) in section 206(d)(5), by striking ‘‘the 
Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust 
Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance 
Trust Fund, as appropriate’’ and inserting ‘‘the 
Social Security Trust Fund’’; 
(C) in section 206(e)(3)(B), by striking 
‘‘the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance 
Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insur-
ance Trust Fund’’ and inserting ‘‘the Social Se-
curity Trust Fund’’; 
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(D) in section 208(b)(5)(A), by striking 
‘‘the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance 
Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insur-
ance Trust Fund, as appropriate’’ and inserting 
‘‘the Social Security Trust Fund’’; 
(E) in section 215(i)(1)(F)— 
(i) in clause (i)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘the combined 
balance in the Federal Old-Age and 
Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and 
the 
Federal 
Disability 
Insurance 
Trust Fund’’ and inserting ‘‘the bal-
ance in the Social Security Trust 
Fund’’; and 
(II) by striking ‘‘and reduced by 
the outstanding amount of any loan 
(including interest thereon) thereto-
fore made to either such Fund from 
the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust 
Fund under section 201(l)’’; and 
(ii) in clause (ii)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘the Federal Old- 
Age and Survivors Insurance Trust 
Fund and the Federal Disability In-
surance Trust Fund’’ and inserting 
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‘‘the Social Security Trust Fund’’; 
and 
(II) by striking ‘‘(other than pay-
ments’’ and all that follows through 
‘‘and reducing’’ and inserting ‘‘, but 
reducing’’; 
(F) in section 221(e)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘Trust Funds’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘Trust 
Fund’’; and 
(ii) by striking the last sentence; 
(G) in section 221(f), by striking ‘‘Trust 
Funds’’ and inserting ‘‘Trust Fund’’; 
(H) in section 222(d)— 
(i) in the section heading, by striking 
‘‘TRUST FUNDS’’ and inserting ‘‘TRUST 
FUND’’; 
(ii) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘to 
the end that savings will accrue to the 
Trust Funds as a result of rehabilitating 
such individuals, there are authorized to be 
transferred from the Federal Old-Age and 
Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the 
Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund’’ 
and inserting ‘‘to the end that savings will 
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accrue to the Trust Fund as a result of re-
habilitating such individuals, there are au-
thorized to be transferred from the Social 
Security Trust Fund’’; and 
(iii) by amending paragraph (4) to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(4) The Commissioner of Social Security shall deter-
mine according to such methods and procedures as the 
Commissioner may deem appropriate the total amount to 
be reimbursed for the cost of services under this sub-
section.’’; 
(I) in section 228(g)— 
(i) in the section heading, by striking 
‘‘FEDERAL OLD-AGE AND SURVIVORS IN-
SURANCE
TRUST
FUND’’ and inserting 
‘‘SOCIAL SECURITY TRUST FUND’’; and 
(ii) in the matter preceding paragraph 
(1), by striking ‘‘Federal Old-Age and Sur-
vivors Insurance Trust Fund’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘Social Security Trust Fund’’; 
(J) in section 231(c), by striking ‘‘Trust 
Funds’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘Trust Fund’’; and 
(K) in section 234(a)(1), by striking 
‘‘Trust Funds’’ and inserting ‘‘Trust Fund’’. 
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(2) TITLE VII.—Title VII of the Social Security 
Act (42 U.S.C. 901 et seq.) is amended— 
(A) in section 703(j), by striking ‘‘Federal 
Disability Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal 
Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund,’’ 
and inserting ‘‘Social Security Trust Fund’’; 
(B) in section 708(c), by striking ‘‘the 
‘OASDI trust fund ratio’ under section 201(l),’’ 
after ‘‘computing’’; 
(C) in section 709— 
(i) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘Fed-
eral Old-Age and Survivors Insurance 
Trust Fund and the Federal Disability In-
surance Trust Fund’’ and inserting ‘‘Social 
Security Trust Fund’’; and 
(ii) in subsection (b)— 
(I) in paragraph (1), by striking 
‘‘section 201(l) or’’; and 
(II) in paragraph (2), by striking 
‘‘Federal Old-Age and Survivors In-
surance Trust Fund and the Federal 
Disability Insurance Trust Fund’’ and 
inserting 
‘‘Social 
Security 
Trust 
Fund’’; and 
(D) in section 710— 
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(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to Social Security 
account statements required to be provided on or after 
January 1, 2022. 
SEC. 302. PREVENTING CLOSURE OF FIELD AND HEARING 
OFFICES AND RESIDENT OR RURAL CONTACT 
STATIONS. 
(a) MORATORIUM ON CLOSURE OR CONSOLIDATION 
OF FIELD OR HEARING OFFICES OR NEW LIMITATIONS 
ON ACCESS TO SUCH OFFICES.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in para-
graph (2), the Commissioner of Social Security shall 
take no action on or after January 1, 2022, to close 
or consolidate field or hearing offices of the Social 
Security Administration or to otherwise impose any 
new limitation on access to such offices. 
(2) CESSATION OF MORATORIUM UPON REPORT 
TO CONGRESS.—Paragraph (1) shall cease to be ef-
fective 180 days after the Commissioner submits to 
the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of 
Representatives and the Committee on Finance of 
the Senate a detailed report outlining and justifying 
the process for selecting field or hearing offices to be 
closed or consolidated or otherwise to have limited 
access. Such report shall include— 
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(A) an analysis of the criteria used for se-
lecting field or hearing offices for closure, con-
solidation, or limited access; 
(B) a description of how the Commissioner 
has analyzed and considered relevant factors, 
including but not limited to transportation and 
communication burdens faced by individuals 
serviced by the offices, including elderly and 
disabled citizens; and 
(C) a description of any method of cost- 
benefit analysis applied by the Commissioner in 
connection with closures and consolidations of 
field or hearing offices, and other limitations on 
access to field or hearing offices, including any 
analysis that takes into account— 
(i) the anticipated savings resulting 
from the closure, consolidation, or limita-
tion on access; 
(ii) the anticipated costs associated 
with replacing services lost by the closure, 
consolidation, or limitation on access; 
(iii) the anticipated effects on employ-
ees of the offices affected; 
(iv) how the loss of access resulting 
from the closure, consolidation, or limita-
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tion on access will be replaced by the es-
tablishment of a new field or hearing of-
fice, increased access at a different office, 
or some other means, and the factors con-
sidered by the Commissioner in deter-
mining how to replace such lost access; 
and 
(v) such other relevant factors as may 
be determined by the Commissioner, in-
cluding but not limited to transportation 
and communication burdens faced by indi-
viduals serviced by the offices, including el-
derly and disabled citizens. 
(b) REQUIREMENTS FOR FUTURE CLOSURES, CON-
SOLIDATIONS, AND NEW LIMITATIONS ON ACCESS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 704 of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 904) is amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘Field and Hearing Offices 
‘‘(f)(1) The Commissioner may not close a field or 
hearing office of the Administration, consolidate two or 
more such offices, or otherwise impose any new limitation 
on public access to any such office, unless the Commis-
sioner complies with the requirements of paragraphs (2), 
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