Social Security Overpayment Relief Act

Bill: 118-hr-6858
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2023-12-19
Policy area: Social Welfare
Latest action: action_date: 2024-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Work and Welfare.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-12-19
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Social Security Overpayment Relief Act</strong></p><p>This bill prohibits the Social Security Administration from collecting overpayments made in error to Social Security or Supplemental Security Income recipients 10 or more years prior to the discovery of the error by the administration. This prohibition extends to the collection of funds directly from overpaid recipients and to the adjustment of future payments to those recipients.&nbsp;</p>

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 6858 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES December 19, 2023 Mr. Gallego (for himself and Mr. Graves of Louisiana ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means A BILL To amend the Social Security Act to limit the recovery of overpayments under titles II and XVI to a ten-year period.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Social Security Overpayment Relief Act . 2. Limitation on recovery of overpayments (a) Title II limitation Section 204 of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 404 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (h) In any case in which more than the correct amount of payment has been made, there shall be no adjustment of payments to, or recovery by the United States from, any person of an overpayment that occurred 10 or more years prior to the date on which the Commissioner finds that more than the correct amount of payment has been made to such person. . (b) Title XVI limitation Section 1631(b) of such Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1383(b) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (9) In any case in which more than the correct amount of payment has been made, there shall be no adjustment of payments to, or recovery by the United States from, any person of an overpayment that occurred 10 or more years prior to the date on which the Commissioner finds that more than the correct amount of payment has been made to such person. .