Social Security Overpayment Relief Act

Bill: 119-s-1023
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Gallego, Ruben [D-AZ]
Introduced: 2025-03-13
Policy area: Social Welfare
Latest action: action_date: 2025-03-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2025-03-13
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
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: II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1023 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 13, 2025 Mr. Gallego (for himself and Mr. Cassidy ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To amend the Social Security Act to limit the recovery of overpayments under titles II and XVI to a 10-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. .