I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1161 
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to credit prospectively individuals 
serving as caregivers of dependent relatives with deemed wages for up 
to five years of such service. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 16, 2007 
Mrs. LOWEY 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 credit pro-
spectively individuals serving as caregivers of dependent 
relatives with deemed wages for up to five years of 
such service. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Social Security Care-
giver Credit Act of 2007’’. 
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SEC. 2. DEEMED WAGES FOR CAREGIVERS OF DEPENDENT 
RELATIVES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title II of the Social Security Act 
is amended by adding after section 234 (42 U.S.C. 434) 
the following new section: 
‘‘DEEMED WAGES FOR CAREGIVERS OF DEPENDENT 
RELATIVES 
‘‘Definitions 
‘‘SEC. 235. (a) For purposes of this section— 
‘‘(1) The term ‘qualifying month’ means, in 
connection with an individual, a month during which 
such individual was engaged for not less than 80 
hours in providing care to a dependent relative with-
out monetary compensation. Such term does not in-
clude any month ending after the date on which 
such individual attains retirement age (as defined in 
section 216(l)). 
‘‘(2) The term ‘dependent relative’ means, in 
connection with an individual— 
‘‘(A) a child, grandchild, niece, or nephew 
(of such individual or such individual’s spouse 
or domestic partner) who is under the age of 
12, or 
‘‘(B) a child, grandchild, niece, or nephew 
(of such individual or such individual’s spouse 
or domestic partner), a parent, aunt, or uncle 
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(of such individual or his or her spouse or do-
mestic partner), or such individual’s spouse or 
domestic partner, if such child, grandchild, 
niece, nephew, parent, aunt, uncle, spouse, or 
domestic partner is a chronically dependent in-
dividual. 
‘‘(3)(A) The term ‘chronically dependent indi-
vidual’ means an individual who— 
‘‘(i) is dependent on a daily basis on verbal 
reminding, physical cueing, supervision, or 
other assistance provided to the individual by 
another person in the performance of at least 2 
of the activities of daily living (described in sub-
paragraph (B)), and 
‘‘(ii) without the assistance described in 
clause (i), could not perform such activities of 
daily living. 
‘‘(B) The ‘activities of daily living’ referred to 
in subparagraph (A) are the following: 
‘‘(i) Eating. 
‘‘(ii) Bathing. 
‘‘(iii) Dressing. 
‘‘(iv) Toileting. 
‘‘(v) Transferring in and out of a bed or 
in and out of a chair. 
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‘‘Deemed Wages of Caregiver 
‘‘(b)(1)(A) For purposes of determining entitlement 
to and the amount of any monthly benefit for any month 
after December 2006, or entitlement to and the amount 
of any lump-sum death payment in the case of a death 
after such month, payable under this title on the basis 
of the wages and self-employment income of any indi-
vidual, and for purposes of section 216(i)(3), such indi-
vidual shall be deemed to have been paid during each 
qualifying month (in addition to wages or self-employment 
income actually paid to or derived by such individual dur-
ing such month) at an amount per month equal to the 
excess (if any) of— 
‘‘(i) 50 percent of the average amount of wages 
and self-employment income otherwise credited to in-
dividuals for such month under this title, over 
‘‘(ii) the amount of wages and self-employment 
income actually paid to or derived by such individual 
for such month. 
‘‘(B) In any case in which there are more than 60 
qualifying months for an individual, only the last 60 of 
such months shall be taken into account for purposes of 
this section. 
‘‘(2) Paragraph (1) shall not be applicable in the case 
of any monthly benefit or lump-sum death payment if a 
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larger such benefit or payment, as the case may be, would 
be payable without its application. 
‘‘Citizenship and Residency Requirements 
‘‘(c)(1) A qualifying month shall not be taken into 
account under this section with respect to any individual 
unless such individual— 
‘‘(A) is throughout the qualifying month a resi-
dent of the United States (as defined in paragraph 
(2)), and 
‘‘(B)(i) is throughout the qualifying month a 
citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully ad-
mitted for permanent residence, and 
‘‘(ii) in the case of an individual who was not 
a citizen of the United States throughout the quali-
fying month, has resided in the United States (as 
defined in subsection 210(i)) continuously during the 
5 years immediately preceding the qualifying month. 
‘‘(2) For purposes of paragraph (1)(A), the term 
‘United States’ means the 50 States and the District of 
Columbia. 
‘‘Identification Requirements 
‘‘(d) A qualifying month shall not be taken into ac-
count under this section with respect to an individual un-
less such individual provides the Commissioner of Social 
Security with the name and social security account num-
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ber of the dependent relative with respect to whom the 
individual was engaged in providing care during such 
month, and other information as the Commissioner may 
require to verify the status of the dependent relative, on 
whatever application may be required to obtain benefits 
under this section. 
‘‘Annual Reimbursement of Federal Old-Age and 
Survivors Insurance Trust Fund 
‘‘(e) There are authorized to be appropriated to the 
Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund for 
the fiscal year ending September 30, 2007, and for each 
fiscal year thereafter, such sums as the Commissioner of 
Social Security deems necessary on account of— 
‘‘(1) payments made under this section during 
the second preceding fiscal year and all fiscal years 
prior thereto to individuals entitled to benefits under 
this section, 
‘‘(2) the additional administrative expenses re-
sulting from the payments described in paragraph 
(1), and 
‘‘(3) any loss in interest to such Trust Fund re-
sulting from such payments and expenses, 
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in order to place such Trust Fund in the same position 
at the end of such fiscal year as it would have been in 
if such payments had not been made.’’. 
Æ 
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