[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7285 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7285

To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for an increase 
       in the maximum level of fees authorized to be charged by 
   representatives with respect to claims of entitlement to past-due 
  benefits and to require cost-of-living adjustments to such level of 
                            authorized fees.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 19, 2008

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for an increase 
       in the maximum level of fees authorized to be charged by 
   representatives with respect to claims of entitlement to past-due 
  benefits and to require cost-of-living adjustments to such level of 
                            authorized fees.

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

SECTION 1. INCREASE IN MAXIMUM LEVEL OF FEES AUTHORIZED TO BE CHARGED 
              BY REPRESENTATIVES WITH RESPECT TO CLAIMS OF ENTITLEMENT 
              TO PAST-DUE BENEFITS AND ANNUAL ADJUSTMENTS TO SUCH LEVEL 
              OF AUTHORIZED FEES.

    (a) In General.--Section 206(a)(2)(A) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 406(a)(2)(A)) is amended--
            (1) in clause (ii)(II), by striking ``$4,000'' and 
        inserting ``$6,264.50''; and
            (2) in the matter following clause (iii), by striking ``The 
        Commissioner of Social Security may'' and all that follows 
        through ``such date.'' and inserting the following: ``The 
        Commissioner of Social Security shall adjust annually (after 
        2008) the dollar amount set forth in subclause (II) of clause 
        (ii) under procedures providing for adjustments in the same 
        manner and to the same extent as adjustments are provided for 
        under section 215(I)(2)(A), except that any amount so adjusted 
        that is not a multiple of $0.10 shall be rounded to the nearest 
        multiple of $0.10.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply with respect to fees to be recovered to compensate for services 
with respect to claims of entitlement to past-due benefits presented to 
the Commissioner of Social Security on or after the date of the 
enactment of this Act.
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