[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1418 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

  1st Session
                                S. 1418

  To provide for the more effective implementation of the prohibition 
   against the payment to prisoners of supplemental security income 
benefits under title XVI of the Social Security Act or monthly benefits 
  under title II of such Act, and to deny such supplemental security 
  income benefits for 10 years to a person found to have fraudulently 
                obtained such benefits while in prison.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

            November 17 (legislative day, November 16), 1995

 Mr. Pressler introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for the more effective implementation of the prohibition 
   against the payment to prisoners of supplemental security income 
benefits under title XVI of the Social Security Act or monthly benefits 
  under title II of such Act, and to deny such supplemental security 
  income benefits for 10 years to a person found to have fraudulently 
                obtained such benefits while in prison.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This bill may be cited as the ``Prisoner Fraud Prevention Act''.

SEC. 2. IMPLEMENTATION OF PROHIBITION AGAINST PAYMENT OF BENEFITS TO 
              PRISONERS.

    (a) SSI Benefits.--Section 1611(e)(1) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 1382(e)(1)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(I) The Commissioner shall enter into a contract with any 
interested State or local institution referred to in subparagraph (A), 
under which--
            ``(i) the institution shall provide to the Commissioner, on 
        a monthly basis, the names of, and other identifying 
        information about, the inmates of the institution; and
            ``(ii) the Commissioner shall pay to the institution, with 
        respect to each inmate of the institution who, by reason of 
        this paragraph, is ineligible for a benefit under this title, 
        and who is found by the Commissioner to have been erroneously 
        paid a benefit under this title while such an inmate, an amount 
        equal to 50 percent of the monthly amount most recently 
        erroneously so paid to the inmate.''.
    (b) OASDI Benefits.--Section 202(x)(3) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
402(x)(3)) is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``(A)'' after ``(3)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(B) The Commissioner shall enter into a contract with any 
interested State or local institution described in clause (i) or (ii) 
of paragraph (1)(A) the primary purpose of which is to confine 
individuals as described in paragraph (1)(A), under which--
            ``(i) the institution shall provide to the Commissioner, on 
        a monthly basis, the names of, and other identifying 
        information about, the individuals so confined in the 
        institution; and
            ``(ii) the Commissioner shall pay to any such institution, 
        with respect to each individual found by the Commissioner to 
        have been erroneously paid a benefit under this title while so 
        confined in the institution, an amount equal to 50 percent of 
        the monthly amount most recently erroneously so paid to the 
        individual.''.

SEC. 3. DENIAL OF SSI BENEFITS FOR 10 YEARS TO A PERSON FOUND TO HAVE 
              FRAUDULENTLY OBTAINED SSI BENEFITS WHILE IN PRISON.

    Section 1611(e)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
1382(e)(1)), as amended by section 1 of this Act, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(J) A person shall not be an eligible individual or eligible 
spouse for purposes of this title if--
            ``(i) the Commissioner finds that the person has made a 
        fraudulent statement or representation in order to obtain 
        benefits under this title while serving a prison sentence; and
            ``(ii) the 10-year period that begins with the date the 
        person has completed the sentence has not expired.''.
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