    [House Document 114-186]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]

    114th Congress, 2d Session - - - - - - - - - - House Document 114-186

        AGREEMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE
                         FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL

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                                    MESSAGE

                                      from

                         THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                                  transmitting

     THE AGREEMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED
    STATES OF AMERICA AND THE FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL THAT WAS SIGNED
    IN WASHINGTON, D.C., ON JUNE 30, 2015, PURSUANT TO 42 U.S.C. 433(E)(1);
    AUG. 14, 1935, CH. 531, TITLE II, SEC. 233(e)(1) (AS AMENDED BY PUBLIC
                   LAW 95-216, SEC. 317(a)); (91 STAT. 1539)

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      December 8, 2016.--Message and accompanying papers referred to the
             Committee on Ways and Means and ordered to be printed

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                        U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE

    69-011                         WASHINGTON : 2016

    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 a social
    security totalization agreement with Brazil, titled ``Agreement
    on Social Security between the United States of America and the
    Federative Republic of Brazil,'' and a related agreement titled
    ``Administrative Arrangement between the Competent Authorities
    of the United States of America and the Federative Republic of
    Brazil for the Implementation of the Agreement on Social
    Security'' (collectively the ``Agreements''). The Agreements
    were signed in Washington, D.C., on June 30, 2015.
        The Agreements are similar in objective to the social
    security agreements already in force with most European Union
    countries, Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, Norway, the
    Republic of Korea, and Switzerland. 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 lost
    benefit protection that can occur when workers divide their
    careers between two countries.
        The Agreements contain all provisions mandated by section
    233 of the Social Security Act and other provisions that I deem
    appropriate to carry out the purposes of section 233, pursuant
    to section 233(c)(4) of the Social Security Act.
        I also transmit for the information of the Congress a
    report required by section 233(e)(1) of the Social Security Act
    on the estimated number of individuals who will be affected by
    the Agreements and the Agreements' estimated cost effect. The
    Department of State and the Social Security Administration have
    recommended the Agreements to me.
        I commend the Agreement on Social Security between the
    United States of America and the Federative Republic of Brazil
    and the Administrative Arrangement between the Competent
    Authorities of the United States of America and the Federative
    Republic of Brazil for the Implementation of the Agreement on
    Social Security.

                                                          Barack Obama.
        The White House, December 8, 2016.

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