Catching Up Family Caregivers Act of 2024

Bill: 118-s-5149
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2024-09-24
Policy area: Taxation
Latest action: action_date: 2024-09-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S6371; Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S6371)

Summaries:
action_date: 2024-09-24
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Catching Up Family Caregivers Act of 2024</strong></p><p>This bill allows qualified family caregivers to make catch-up contributions to a retirement account for up to five years. A qualified family caregiver is an unemployed or severely underemployed adult who provides 500 hours or more during one tax year of in-home care, monitoring, management, supervision, or treatment of an adult with special needs or a child.&nbsp;</p>

tv_txt: II 118th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 5149 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES September 24, 2024 Ms. Collins introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow additional catch-up contributions for certain family caregivers.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Catching Up Family Caregivers Act of 2024 . 2. Additional catch-up contributions for certain family caregivers (a) In general Subparagraph (A) of section 414(v)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended— (1) by striking who would and inserting “who— (i) would , (2) by adding or at the end, and (3) by adding at the end the following new clause: (ii) is a qualified family caregiver as of the end of the taxable year, . (b) Qualified family caregiver Paragraph (6) of section 414(v) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (D) Qualified family caregiver (i) In general The term qualified family caregiver means an individual who has completed 500 or more hours as a family caregiver during any 1 taxable year. (ii) Limitation An individual shall be treated as a qualified family caregiver for not more than a total of, consecutively or nonconsecutively, the greater of— (I) 1 taxable year for each taxable year during which such individual completed 500 or more hours as a family caregiver, or (II) 5 taxable years. (iii) Hours For purposes of this subparagraph, the hours during which an individual was a family caregiver shall be determined by self-certification. (iv) Family caregiver The term family caregiver means an unpaid family member, a foster parent, or another unpaid adult, who is unemployed or severely underemployed (as determined by the Secretary) and who provides in-home care, monitoring, management, supervision, or treatment of— (I) a child, or (II) an adult with a special need (as defined in section 2901 of the Public Health Service Act), including an elderly adult who requires care or supervision due to an age-related condition. . (c) IRA catch-Up contributions Clause (i) of section 219(b)(5) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking who has attained the age of 50 before the close of the taxable year, the deductible amount and inserting “who— (I) has attained the age of 50 before the close of the taxable year, or (II) is a qualified family caregiver (as defined in section 414(v)(6)(D)) as of the close of the taxable year, the deductible amount . (d) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024.