[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1319 Introduced in House (IH)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1319

   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

                             March 24, 1995

Mr. Meehan (for himself, Mr. Sanford, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Deal of Georgia, 
Mr. Bereuter, Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Johnson of Connecticut, Mr. Upton, Mr. 
Gene Green of Texas, Mr. Ackerman, Mrs. Mink of Hawaii, Mr. Pete Geren 
   of Texas, Mr. Martinez, Mr. Stupak, and Mr. Moran) 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 1995''.

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 Commissioner of Social Security'' and 
        inserting ``The Commissioner of Social Security'';
            (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, 1995, the Commissioner 
of Social Security 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 Commissioner 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, 1995, and 
before January 1, 2017.
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