    [House Document 105-47]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]

    105th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 105-47

      SUPPLEMENTARY AGREEMENT AMENDING THE AGREEMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY
        BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE
    GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND

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                                    MESSAGE

                                      from

                       THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                                  transmitting

      A SUPPLEMENTARY AGREEMENT AMENDING THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED
      STATES OF AMERICA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT
      BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND ON SOCIAL SECURITY (THE SUPPLEMENTARY
      AGREEMENT), WHICH CONSISTS OF TWO SEPARATE INSTRUMENTS: A PRINCIPAL
        AGREEMENT AND AN ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENT. THE SUPPLEMENTARY
      AGREEMENT, SIGNED AT LONDON ON JUNE 6, 1996, IS INTENDED TO MODIFY
    CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE ORIGINAL UNITED STATES- UNITED KINGDOM SOCIAL
    SECURITY AGREEMENT, SIGNED AT LONDON FEBRUARY 13, 1984, PURSUANT TO 42
                                U.S.C. 433(e)(1)

      February 25, 1997.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the
             Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed

    To the Congress of the United States:
        Pursuant to section 233(e)(1) of the Social Security Act,
    as amended by the Social Security Amendments of 1977 (Public
    Law 95-216, 42 U.S.C. 433(e)(1)), I transmit herewith the
    Supplementary Agreement Amending the Agreement Between the
    Government of the United States of America and the Government
    of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on
    Social Security (the Supplementary Agreement), which consists
    of two separate instruments: a principal agreement and an
    administrative arrangement. The Supplementary Agreement, signed
    at London on June 6, 1996, is intended to modify certain
    provisions of the original United States-United Kingdom Social
    Security Agreement signed at London February 13, 1984.
        The United States-United Kingdom Social Security Agreement
    is similar in objective to the social security agreements with
    Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
    Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal,
    Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. Such bilateral agreements
    provide for limited coordination between the U.S. and foreign
    social security systems to eliminate dual social security
    coverage and taxation, and to help prevent the loss of benefit
    protection that can occur when workers divide their careers
    between two countries.
        The Supplementary Agreement, which would amend the 1984
    Agreement to update and clarify several of its provisions, is
    necessitated by changes that have occurred in U.S. and English
    law in recent years. Among other things, the Supplementary
    Agreement removes certain restrictions in the original
    agreement concerning payment of UK disability benefits to
    residents of the United States. The Supplementary Agreement
    will also make a number of minor revisions in the Agreement to
    take account of other changes in U.S. and English law that have
    occurred in recent years.
        The United States-United Kingdom Social Security Agreement,
    as amended, would continue to contain all provisions mandated
    by section 233 and other provisions that I deem appropriate to
    carry out the provisions of section 233, pursuant to section
    233(c)(4) of the Act.
        I also transmit for the information of the Congress a
    report prepared by the Social Security Administration
    explaining the key points of the Supplementary Agreement, along
    with a paragraph-by-paragraph explanation of the effect of the
    amendments on the principal agreement and the related
    administrative arrangement. Annexed to this report is the
    report required by section 233(e)(1) of the Act on the effect
    of the Agreement, as amended, on income and expenditures of the
    U.S. Social Security program and the number of individuals
    affected by the amended Agreement. The Department of State and
    the Social Security Administration have recommended the
    Supplemental Agreement and related documents to me.
        I commend the United States-United Kingdom Supplementary
    Social Security Agreement and related documents.

                                                    William J. Clinton.
        The White House, February 25, 1997.