[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4521 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4521

   To amend the Social Security Act to improve the information made 
  available in social security account statements and to provide for 
        annual distribution of such statements to beneficiaries.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 26, 1994

Ms. Margolies-Mezvinsky (for herself, Mr. Penny, Ms. Long, Ms. Lambert, 
  Mr. Meehan, Mr. McMillan, Mr. Murtha, Mr. Barrett of Wisconsin, Mr. 
Cox, Mr. Franks of New Jersey, Mr. Bacchus of Florida, and Mr. Clement) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Social Security Act to improve the information made 
  available in social security account statements and to provide for 
        annual distribution of such statements to beneficiaries.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Social Security Access to 
Information Act of 1994''.

SEC. 2. ANNUAL SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT STATEMENTS TO BENEFICIARIES 
              INDICATING TOTAL BENEFITS PAID.

    Section 1143 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320b-13) is 
amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``Beginning not later 
        than October 1, 1990, the Secretary'' and inserting ``The 
        Secretary'';
            (2) in subsection (a)(2)(A), by inserting ``, expressed in 
        terms of actual dollars and in terms of current dollars'' after 
        ``request'';
            (3) in subsection (a)(2), by redesignating subparagraphs 
        (B), (C), and (D), as subparagraphs (C), (D), and (E), 
        respectively, and by inserting after subparagraph (A) the 
        following new subparagraph:
            ``(B) the total amount of benefits paid to date to the 
        eligible individual and the total amount of benefits paid to 
        date to all beneficiaries on the basis of the eligible 
        individual's wages and self-employment income, expressed in 
        terms of actual dollars and in terms of current dollars;'';
            (4) by striking subsection (c)(1) and inserting the 
        following:
    ``(c)(1) Beginning not later than October 1, 1994, the Secretary 
shall provide a statement on an annual basis to each eligible 
individual who has attained at least 60 years of age and for whom a 
current mailing address can be determined through such methods as the 
Secretary determines to be appropriate.''; and
            (5) in subsection (c)(2), by striking ``who is not 
        receiving benefits under title II and''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall apply with respect to social 
security account statements provided after September 30, 1994, and 
before January 1, 2016.

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