Opinion ID: 430537
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Heading Rank: 5

Heading: subsequent legislation

Text: 50 Having failed in 1978 to explicitly state its desire to repeal section 407 in Chapter 13 cases, Congress last year forthrightly declared its wish that the anti-assignment provision not be considered repealed. Pub.L. No. 98-21, Sec. 335, 97 Stat. 65, enacted April 20, 1983, recodified section 407 as section 407(a) and added a new subsection 407(b), which provides: 51 (b) No other provision of law, enacted before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this section, may be construed to limit, supercede, or otherwise modify the provisions of this section except to the extent that it does so by express reference to this section. 52 Pub.L. No. 98-21, Sec. 335(a). 53 The legislative history indicates without question that Congress intended to reverse decisions like those on appeal here. The Conference Report notes: 54 Based on the legislative history of the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, some bankruptcy courts have considered social security and SSI benefits listed by the debtor to be income for purposes of a Chapter XIII bankruptcy and have ordered SSA in several hundred cases to send all or a part of a debtor's benefit check to the trustee in bankruptcy. 55