[House Document 114-186]
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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 

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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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