[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2312 Introduced in House (IH)]

  1st Session
                                H. R. 2312

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


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 12, 1995

  Ms. Slaughter (for herself and Mr. Rangel) introduced the following 
  bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in 
addition to the Committee on Commerce, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Social Security Act to provide for annual distribution of 
social security account statements to all beneficiaries and to improve 
           the information made available in such statements.
    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 Information Act of 
1995''.

SEC. 2. ANNUAL SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT STATEMENTS TO ALL 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 redesignating subparagraphs (C) and (D) as 
                subparagraph (G) and (H), respectively;
                    (B) by striking subparagraphs (A) and (B) and 
                inserting the following new subparagraphs:
            ``(A) the amount of wages paid to, and self-employment 
        income derived by, the eligible individual, as shown by the 
        records of the Commissioner of Social Security on the date of 
        the request;
            ``(B) the amount of wages paid to, and self-employment 
        income derived by, any individual (other than the eligible 
        individual) on whose wages and self-employment income the 
        eligible individual's benefits are based, as shown by the 
        records of the Commissioner of Social Security on the date of 
        the request;
            ``(C) the total amount of benefits paid to the eligible 
        individual, as shown by the records of the Commissioner of 
        Social Security on the date of the request;
            ``(D) the total amount of benefits paid to all 
        beneficiaries (other than the eligible individual) on the basis 
        of the eligible individual's wages and self-employment income, 
        as shown by the records of the Commissioner of Social Security 
        on the date of the request;
            ``(E) an estimate of the aggregate of the employee and 
        self-employment contributions of the eligible individual for 
        old-age, survivors, and disability insurance, as shown by the 
        records of the Commissioner of Social Security on the date of 
        the request;
            ``(F) an estimate of the aggregate of the employee and 
        self-employment contributions for old-age, surviviors, and 
        disability insurance of any individual (other than the eligible 
        individual) on whose wages and self-employment income the 
        eligible individual's benefits are based, as shown by the 
        records of the Commissioner of Social Security on the date of 
        the request;'';
                    (D) in subparagraph (H) (as redesignated), by 
                striking the period and inserting a semicolon; and
                    (E) by inserting, after and below subparagraph (H) 
                (as redesignated), the following:
        ``expressed in terms of actual dollars and in terms of current 
        dollars.'';
            (4) in subsection (a)(3)--
                    (A) by adding ``and'' at the end of subparagraph 
                (A); and
                    (B) by striking subparagraphs (B) and (C) and 
                inserting the following:
            ``(B) is receiving benefits under title II or has attained 
        age 25 or over.'';
            (5) in subsection (c), by redesignating paragraph (2) as 
        paragraph (3), and by striking ``(c)(1) By not later'' and 
        inserting the following:
    ``(c)(1) The Commissioner of Social Security shall provide a 
statement on an annual basis to each eligible individual who is 
receiving benefits under title II.
    ``(2) By not later''; and
            (6) by adding at the end of subsection (c) the following 
        new paragraph:
    ``(4) For purposes of subsection (a)(2), any statement required 
under this subsection to be provided to an individual in any fiscal 
year without request shall be deemed to have been requested by such 
individual pursuant to subsection (a) on October 1 of such fiscal 
year.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall apply with respect to social 
security account statements provided under section 1143 of the Social 
Security Act after September 30, 1995.
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