[House Document 114-95]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]





                                     

114th Congress, 2d Session - - - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 114-95

 
   AGREEMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND HUNGARY

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                                MESSAGE

                                  from

                     THEPRESIDENTOFTHEUNITEDSTATES

                              transmitting

THE AGREEMENTS ON SOCIAL SECURITY BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED 
  STATES OF AMERICA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF HUNGARY THAT WERE SIGNED IN 
     BUDAPEST, HUNGARY, ON FEBRUARY 3, 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)




  February 2, 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
                            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 Hungary, titled, 
``Agreement on Social Security between the Government of the 
United States of America and the Government of Hungary,'' and a 
related agreement titled, ``Administrative Arrangement for the 
Implementation of the Agreement on Social Security between the 
United States of America and the Government of Hungary'' 
(collectively the ``Agreements''). The Agreements were signed 
in Budapest, Hungary, on February 3, 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 the 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 estimated cost effect. The Department of 
State and the Social Security Administration have recommended 
the Agreements to me.
    I commend the Agreements and related documents.

                                                      Barack Obama.
    The White House, February 1, 2016.