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114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6230 
To ensure that seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities who receive 
Social Security and certain other Federal benefits receive a $250 pay-
ment in the event that no cost-of-living adjustment is payable in a 
calendar year. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 28, 2016 
Ms. JACKSON LEE (for herself, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. CLEAVER, Ms. ADAMS, 
and Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the 
Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, and Veterans’ Affairs, 
for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case 
for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
committee concerned 
A BILL 
To ensure that seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities 
who receive Social Security and certain other Federal 
benefits receive a $250 payment in the event that no 
cost-of-living adjustment is payable in a calendar year. 
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 Safety 
Dividend Act of 2016’’. 
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SEC. 2. PAYMENT IN LIEU OF A COST-OF-LIVING ADJUST-
MENT TO RECIPIENTS OF SOCIAL SECURITY, 
SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME, RAIL-
ROAD RETIREMENT BENEFITS, AND VET-
ERANS DISABILITY COMPENSATION OR PEN-
SION BENEFITS. 
(a) AUTHORITY TO MAKE PAYMENTS.— 
(1) ELIGIBILITY.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the 
Treasury shall disburse, out of any funds in the 
Treasury of the United States not otherwise ap-
propriated, a cash payment equal to $250 for 
each non-COLA year of a program providing 
benefit payments described in clause (i), (ii), or 
(iii) of subparagraph (C) or in subparagraph 
(D) to each individual who, for any month dur-
ing such year, is entitled to such benefit pay-
ment. 
(B) NON-COLA YEAR.—For purposes of 
this section, the term ‘‘non-COLA year’’ means, 
in connection with a program referred to in 
subparagraph (A), a 12-month period for 
which— 
(i) a cost-of-living adjustment is gen-
erally provided under such program in re-
lation to an index specified in section 
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payable, or was reduced, by reason of section 
1505, 5313, or 5313B of title 38, United 
States Code; 
(C) in the case of an individual entitled to 
a benefit specified in paragraph (1)(C) if, for 
any month within the 12-month period ending 
with the month of payment, such individual’s 
benefit under such paragraph was not payable 
by reason of subsection (e)(1)(A) or (e)(4) of 
section 1611 (42 U.S.C. 1382) or section 
1129A of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1320a–8a); or 
(D) in the case of any individual whose 
date of death occurs— 
(i) before the date of the receipt of 
the payment; or 
(ii) in the case of a direct deposit, be-
fore the date on which such payment is de-
posited into such individual’s account. 
In the case of any individual whose date of 
death occurs before a payment is negotiated (in 
the case of a check) or deposited (in the case 
of a direct deposit), such payment shall not be 
due and shall not be reissued to the estate of 
such individual or to any other person. 
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