Title: Social Security Benefit Payments Choice Act of 2021
Policy area: Social Welfare

Summary:
Social Security Benefit Payments Choice Act of 2021
This bill allows a recipient of monthly Social Security benefits who does not concurrently receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) to choose the day of the month that benefits are paid. SSI is a federal, needs-based program that provides cash benefits to older adults, blind individuals, and individuals with disabilities.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3914 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3914

 To amend title II of the Social Security Act to permit individuals to 
                 select a monthly benefit payment date.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 15, 2021

 Mrs. Miller of West Virginia (for herself and Mr. Bergman) introduced 
  the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and 
                                 Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title II of the Social Security Act to permit individuals to 
                 select a monthly benefit payment date.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Social Security Benefit Payments 
Choice Act of 2021''.

SEC. 2. PAYMENT DATE.

    (a) In General.--Section 205 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
405) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(v)(1) The Commissioner shall permit individuals entitled to 
monthly insurance benefits under this title (other than individuals 
concurrently entitled to benefits under this title and title XVI) to 
select, at the time of application for monthly insurance benefits or 
during the annual, coordinated election period (as defined in section 
1851(e)(3)(B)) for any calendar year, any day of the month as the 
individual's monthly payment date.
    ``(2) At the time an individual selects a monthly payment date as 
described in paragraph (1), the Commissioner shall ensure that the 
individual is notified of the effects of such selection, including any 
effects on the timing of delivery of benefit payments.
    ``(3) After an individual selects a monthly payment date as 
described in paragraph (1), the Commissioner shall send a notice to the 
individual that provides confirmation of the monthly payment date 
selected, the date of the selection and the manner in which the 
selection was made, and the 1st month for which the selection takes 
effect.
    ``(4) In any month in which the monthly payment date selected by an 
individual as described in paragraph (1) is a Saturday, Sunday, or 
Federal holiday, payment shall be made--
            ``(A) on the 1st day preceding such monthly payment date 
        that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or Federal holiday in any case 
        in which such preceding day occurs during such month; and
            ``(B) in any other case, on the 1st day following such 
        monthly payment date that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or Federal 
        holiday.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act.
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