[House Document 115-127]
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115th Congress, 2d Session - - - - - - - - - House Document 115-127 
 
   AGREEMENT ON SOCIAL SECURITY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND ICELAND

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                                MESSAGE

                                  from

                     THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

 A SOCIAL SECURITY TOTALIZATION AGREEMENT WITH ICELAND, 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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    May 18, 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 Iceland, titled 
``Agreement on Social Security between the United States of 
America and Iceland'' and the accompanying legally binding 
administrative arrangement, titled ``Administrative Arrangement 
between the Competent Authorities of the United States of 
America and Iceland for the Implementation of the Agreement on 
Social Security between the United States of America and 
Iceland'' (collectively the ``Agreements''). The Agreements 
were signed at Reykjavik, Iceland, on September 27, 2016.
    The Agreements are similar in objective and content to the 
social security totalization agreements already in force with 
other leading economic partners in Europe and elsewhere, 
including 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 loss of 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 of the Agreements 
and an annotated version of the Agreements with descriptions of 
each article. The Department of State and the Social Security 
Administration concluded that these Agreements are in the 
national interest of the United States.
    I commend to the Congress the Agreement on Social Security 
between the United States of America and Iceland and the 
Administrative Arrangement between the Competent Authorities of 
the United States of America and Iceland for the Implementation 
of the Agreement on Social Security between the United States 
of America and Iceland.

                                                   Donald J. Trump.
    The White House, May 17, 2018.




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