    [House Document 114-64]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]

    114th Congress, 1st Session - - - - - - - - - - House Document 114-64
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       SOCIAL SECURITY AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE CZECH
                                    RUPUBLIC

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                                    MESSAGE

                                      from

                         THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                                  transmitting

      A SUPPLEMENTARY AGREEMENT AMENDING THE AGREEMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY
     BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE CZECH REPUBLIC SIGNED AT
      PRAGUE ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2013, PURSUANT TO 42 U.S.C. 433(e)(1); SSA,
                                 SEC. 233(e)(1)

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       October 6, 2015.--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

    59-011 PDF                     WASHINGTON : 2015

    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 on Social
    Security between the United States of America and the Czech
    Republic (the ``Supplementary Agreement''). The Supplementary
    Agreement, signed at Prague on September 23, 2013, is intended
    to modify a certain provision of the Agreement on Social
    Security between the United States of America and the Czech
    Republic, with Administrative Arrangement, signed at Prague on
    September 7, 2007, and entered into force January 1, 2009 (the
    ``U.S.-Czech Social Security Agreement'').
        The U.S.-Czech Social Security Agreement as amended by the
    Supplementary Agreement is similar in objective to the social
    security agreements already in force with most European Union
    countries, Australia, Canada, Chile, Japan, Norway, and the
    Republic of Korea. 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 Supplementary Agreement amends the U.S.-Czech Social
    Security Agreement to account for a new Czech domestic health
    insurance law, which was enacted subsequent to the signing of
    the U.S.-Czech Social Security Agreement in 2007. By including
    the health insurance law within the scope of the U.S.-Czech
    Social Security Agreement, this amendment will exempt U.S.
    citizen workers and multinational companies from contributing
    to the Czech health insurance system, when such workers
    otherwise meet all of the ordinary criteria for such an
    exemption.
        The U.S.-Czech Social Security Agreement, as amended, will
    continue to 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 Supplementary Agreement and its estimated cost effect. The
    Department of State and the Social Security Administration have
    recommended the Supplementary Agreement and related documents
    to me.
        I commend the Supplementary Agreement to the U.S.-Czech
    Social Security Agreement and related documents.

                                                          Barack Obama.
        The White House, October 6, 2015.

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