[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 17]
[Senate]
[Pages 23154-23155]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           THE SOCIAL SECURITY PROGRAM PROTECTION ACT OF 2002

  Mr. BAUCUS. As I promised when I spoke yesterday during floor action 
on the Social Security Protection Act of 2002--H.R. 4070, as amended--I 
am now submitting an unofficial cost estimate from the nonpartisan 
Congressional Budget Office for that bill.
  I ask unanimous consent that it be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in 
the Record, as follows:

                       PRELIMINARY CBO ESTIMATE OF THE BUDGETARY EFFECTS OF H.R. 4070, THE SOCIAL SECURITY PROTECTION ACT OF 2002
                                             [* * * Preliminary and Unofficial * * * (Tentative conference)]
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                                                                                                                                      5-yr.      10-yr.
                                            2003     2004     2005     2006     2007     2008     2009     2010     2011     2012    2003-07    2003-12
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                                                              DIRECT SPENDING AND REVENUES
 
  Title I. Protection of beneficiaries
 
Authority to reissue benefits misused by
 certain organizations serving as
 representative payees:
    Social Security benefits (off-              1      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)          1          1
     budget)............................
    Supplemental Security Income                1      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)          1          1
     benefits...........................
 
      Title II. Program protections
 
Authority to impose civil monetary            (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)        (*)        (*)
 penaties: Revenues.....................
Denial of Title II benefits to fugitive
 felons and persons fleeing prosecution:
    Social Security benefits (off-             -2      -28      -42      -53      -57      -59      -62      -64      -66      -68       -182       -501
     budget)............................
    Medicare............................  .......       -7      -12      -17      -21      -24      -25      -26      -28      -29        -57       -189
 Title III. Attorney fee payment system
              improvements
 
$75 cap (indexed) on attorney                   5       23       24       25       27       28       30       32       31       33        104        258
 assessments in Title III: Proprietary
 receipts (off-budget)a.................
 
  Title IV. Miscellaneous and technical
               amendments
 
Application of waiver authority to        .......  .......  .......      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)        (*)        (*)
 demonstration projects initiated before
 sunset date: Social security benefits
 (off-budget)...........................
Funding of $1-for-$2 demonstratioon           (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)        (*)        (*)
 projects: Social Security benefits (off-
 budget)................................
Treatment of `individual work plans' as        -1       -1  .......  .......  .......  .......  .......  .......  .......  .......         -2         -2
 qualifying plans for purposes of Work
 Opportunity Credit: Revenuesa..........
Limited exemption to duration-of-             (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)        (*)        (*)
 marriage requirement for survivor
 benefits where deceased worker had been
 barred from divorcing institutionalized
 spouse: Social Security benefits (off-
 budget)................................
Permission for Kentucky to operate
 divided retirement systems:
    Social Security revenues (off-              1        1        2        2        2        3        3        4        4        5          8         27
     budget)............................
    Other revenues (on-budget)..........      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)        (*)        (*)
    Social Security benefits (off-        .......      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)      (*)        1  .........          1
     budget)............................
60-month employment requirement for             0        0       -1       -2       -4       -8      -15      -26      -49      -80         -7       -185
 exemption from Government Pension
 Offset: Social Security benefits (off-
 budget)................................
          Total, direct spending and            5      -13      -33      -49      -57      -66      -75      -88     -116     -147       -147       -639
           revenues (effect on deficit).
            On-budget...................        2       -6      -12      -17      -21      -24      -25      -26      -28      -29        -64       -186
            Off-budget..................        3       -7      -21      -32      -36      -42      -50      -62      -88     -118        -93       -453
 

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                                                            SPENDING SUBJECT TO APPROPRIATION
 
Limitation on administrative expenses,          8        6        4        4        4        4        5        5        5        6         27         51
 Social Security Authorization..........
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Assumed enactment date: December 2002. Based on draft language dated November 18, 2002 (1:45 p.m.). Estimates are subject to further review by CBO and
  JCT.
* = Less than $500,000.
aUnder current law, the Social Security Administration approves and pays attorney fees to successful Title II claimants and retains 6.3 percent to cover
  its processing costs. CBO expects receipts from that fee (which are recorded as negative outlays) to climb gradually from $30 million in 2002 to $55
  million in 2012. Thus, a reduction in those receipts is depicted as a positive outlay.
bEstimate provided by Joint Committee on Taxation.



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