[House Document 115-102]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]




115th Congress, 2d Session - - - - - - - - - - - - House Document 115-102

 
   AGREEMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND URUGUAY

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                                MESSAGE

                                  from

                     THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

 A SOCIAL SECURITY TOTALIZATION AGREEMENT WITH URUGUAY, 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)




   March 20, 2018.--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
 79-011                 WASHINGTON : 2018          
 
         
         
         
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 Uruguay, titled 
``Agreement on Social Security between the United States of 
America and the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,'' and the 
accompanying legally binding administrative arrangement, titled 
``Administrative Arrangement between the Competent Authorities 
of the United States of America and the Oriental Republic of 
Uruguay for the Implementation of the Agreement on Social 
Security between the United States of America and the Oriental 
Republic of Uruguay'' (collectively the ``Agreements''). The 
Agreements were signed at Montevideo, Uruguay, on January 10, 
2017.
    The Agreements are similar in objective and content to the 
social security totalization 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, pursuant to section 
233(c)(4), other provisions which I deem appropriate to carry 
out the purposes of section 233.
    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. Also 
included are a summary of the main provisions and an annotated 
version of the Agreements with descriptions of each article. 
The Department of State and the Social Security Administration 
have recommended the Agreements to me.
    I commend to the Congress the Agreement on Social Security 
between the United States of America and the Oriental Republic 
of Uruguay and the Administrative Arrangement between the 
United States of America and the Oriental Republic of Uruguay 
for the Implementation of the Agreement on Social Security 
between the United States of America and the Oriental Republic 
of Uruguay.

                                                   Donald J. Trump.
    The White House, March 19, 2018.
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