3.0.0 1280 2022-02-08T23:21:43Z 2022-02-08T23:21:43Z Senate S 2019-05-02 116 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-05-02T16:08:16Z BENES Act of 2020 116 2477 HR 2020-12-09 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Identical bill CRS 2019-05-02 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2019-05-02 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C001070 Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA] Bob Casey D PA N Y000064 Sen. Young, Todd [R-IN] Todd Young R IN C. 2019-05-02 True S000770 Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] Debbie Stabenow D MI 2019-05-02 True C001035 Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] Susan Collins R ME M. 2019-05-02 True P000449 Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH] Rob Portman R OH 2019-05-02 True C001088 Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE] Christopher Coons D DE A. 2019-05-02 True S001217 Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL] Rick Scott R FL 2019-10-17 False S001191 Sen. Sinema, Kyrsten [D-AZ] Kyrsten Sinema D AZ 2019-10-17 False M001197 Sen. McSally, Martha [R-AZ] Martha McSally R AZ 2019-11-14 False B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2019-11-14 False R000307 Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS] PAT ROBERTS R KS 2020-03-02 False S001203 Sen. Smith, Tina [D-MN] Tina Smith D MN 2020-03-02 False Health Administrative remedies Department of Health and Human Services Government information and archives Medicare Social Security Administration Health 00 2019-05-02 Introduced in Senate 2020-08-21T13:52:24Z Beneficiary Enrollment Notification and Eligibility Simplification Act of 2019 or the BENES Act of 2019

This bill makes a series of changes to, and requires additional notifications regarding, the Medicare enrollment process.

Specifically, the bill changes the Medicare general enrollment period to October 15-December 31, and requires coverage to begin on the first day of the month following enrollment. (Currently, the general enrollment period is January 1-March 31, and coverage begins July 1.) The bill also generally requires coverage to begin on the first day of the month following enrollment for individuals who enroll in the latter months of their initial enrollment period. (Currently, the longer an individual waits to enroll, the more delayed the effective date of coverage.)

The bill also requires Social Security account statements for individuals ages 60 to 64 to include information about Medicare eligibility, late enrollment penalties, coordination of benefits, and special enrollment populations (e.g., veterans).

]]> BENES Act of 2019 Display Title BENES Act of 2019 Short Title(s) as Introduced BENES Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Beneficiary Enrollment Notification and Eligibility Simplification Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a system to notify individuals approaching Medicare eligibility, to simplify and modernize the eligibility enrollment process, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s1280is/xml/BILLS-116s1280is.xml 2019-05-02 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.