[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2682 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2682

   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

                            October 21, 1997

Mr. Meehan (for himself and Mr. Sanford) 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 1997''.

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 
        Commissioner of Social Security'';
            (2) 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 as of the date of 
        the request to the eligible individual and the total amount of 
        benefits paid as of such date to all beneficiaries on the basis 
        of the eligible individual's wages and self-employment 
        income;'';
            (3) by adding at the end of subsection (a)(2), after and 
        below subparagraph (E) (as redesignated), the following new 
        sentence:
``Dollar amounts specified pursuant to subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), and 
(D) shall be expressed in terms of actual dollars and in terms of 
current dollars.''; and
            (4) in subsection (c), by striking ``(c)(1) By not later'' 
        and all that follows through ``appropriate.'' in paragraph (2) 
        and inserting the following:
    ``(c) Beginning not later than October 1, 1998, the Commissioner of 
Social Security shall provide a statement on an annual basis to each 
eligible individual for whom a current mailing address can be 
determined through such methods as the Commissioner determines to be 
appropriate.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall apply with respect to social 
security account statements provided after September 30, 1998, and 
before October 1, 2018.
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