[House Document 110-97]
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AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND DENMARK ON SOCIAL 
                                SECURITY

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                             COMMUNICATION

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                     THEPRESIDENTOFTHEUNITEDSTATES

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AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND DENMARK ON SOCIAL 
SECURITY, WITH A PRINCIPAL AGREEMENT AND AN ADMINISTRATIVE ARRANGEMENT, 
   BOTH SIGNED AT COPENHAGEN ON JUNE 13, 2007, PURSUANT TO 42 U.S.C. 
                               433(e)(1)




March 3, 2008.--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 
Agreement Between the United States of America and the Kingdom 
of Denmark on Social Security, which consists of two separate 
instruments: a principal agreement and an administrative 
arrangement. The agreement was signed at Copenhagen on June 13, 
2007.
    The United States-Denmark Agreement is similar in objective 
to the social security agreements already in force with 
Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Finland, France, 
Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, the 
Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and 
the United Kingdom. Such bilateral agreements provide for 
limited coordination between the United States 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 United States-Denmark Agreement 
contains all provisions mandated by section 233 and other 
provisions that I deem appropriate to carry out the purposes of 
section 233, pursuant to section 233(c)(4).
    I also transmit for the information of the Congress a 
report prepared by the Social Security Administration 
explaining the key points of the Agreement, along with a 
paragraph-by-paragraph explanation of the provisions of the 
principal agreement and the related administrative arrangement. 
Attached to this report is the report required by section 
233(e)(1) of the Social Security Act, which describes the 
effect of the Agreement on income and expenditures of the U.S. 
Social Security program and the number of individuals affected by the 
Agreement.
    I commend to the Congress the United States-Denmark Social 
Security Agreement and related documents.

                                                    George W. Bush.
    The White House, February 28, 2008.
    
    
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