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[H.R. 3309 Reported in House (RH)]

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                                                 Union Calendar No. 723
115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3309

                          [Report No. 115-932]

    To require the Commissioner of Social Security to make publicly 
  available online tools to allow individuals eligible for disability 
     benefits to assess the impact of earnings on the individual's 
 eligibility for, and amount of, benefits received through Federal and 
                        State benefit programs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 2017

   Mr. Sam Johnson of Texas introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

                           September 10, 2018

        Additional sponsors: Mr. Reed and Mr. Bishop of Michigan

                           September 10, 2018

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]
 [For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on July 
                               19, 2017]


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                                 A BILL


 
    To require the Commissioner of Social Security to make publicly 
  available online tools to allow individuals eligible for disability 
     benefits to assess the impact of earnings on the individual's 
 eligibility for, and amount of, benefits received through Federal and 
                        State benefit programs.


 


    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 Online Tools 
Innovation Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. ONLINE BENEFIT ASSESSMENT TOOLS.

    (a) In General.--Not later than 2 years after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the Commissioner of Social Security shall make 
available on the website of the Social Security Administration a tool 
or tools to allow an individual entitled to benefits under section 223 
of the Social Security Act to obtain an estimate of the potential 
impact of earnings on the individual's eligibility for and amount of 
such benefits.
    (b) No Recovery of Certain Overpayments.--In any case in which a 
beneficiary to whom an overpayment is made under section 223 of the 
Social Security Act shows to the satisfaction of the Commissioner that 
such overpayment arose as a result of the beneficiary's reliance on 
inaccurate information provided by the tool or tools described in 
subsection (a), the beneficiary shall be considered to meet the 
criteria in section 204(b)(1) of such Act and there shall be no 
adjustment of payments to, or recovery by the United States from, the 
beneficiary with respect to such overpayment.
                                                 Union Calendar No. 723

115th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                               H. R. 3309

                          [Report No. 115-932]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

    To require the Commissioner of Social Security to make publicly 
  available online tools to allow individuals eligible for disability 
     benefits to assess the impact of earnings on the individual's 
 eligibility for, and amount of, benefits received through Federal and 
                        State benefit programs.

_______________________________________________________________________

                           September 10, 2018

  Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
       House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed