[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3666 Introduced in House (IH)]







                                    


106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3666

 To amend titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act to provide that 
 where a failure by the Commissioner of Social Security to investigate 
or monitor a representative payee results in misuse of benefits by the 
   representative payee, the Commissioner shall make payment of the 
 misused benefits to the beneficiary or alternate representative payee.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           FebruaryK 15, 2000

   Mr. Wise introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act to provide that 
 where a failure by the Commissioner of Social Security to investigate 
or monitor a representative payee results in misuse of benefits by the 
   representative payee, the Commissioner shall make payment of the 
 misused benefits to the beneficiary or alternate representative payee.

    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 Benefit Restoration 
Act of 2000''.

SEC. 2. REMOVAL OF REQUIREMENT OF NEGLIGENCE OF COMMISSIONER FOR 
              RECOVERY OF MISUSED BENEFITS.

    (a) Amendment to Title II.--Section 205(j)(5) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 405(j)(5)) is amended by striking 
``negligent''.
    (b) Amendment to Title XVI.--Section 1631(a)(2)(E) of such Act (42 
U.S.C. 1383(a)(2)(E)) is amended by striking ``negligent''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall apply with respect to 
failures to investigate or monitor occurring before, on, or after the 
date of the enactment of this Act.
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