[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5250]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




   DOUBLE DIP: SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY INSURANCE AND UNEMPLOYMENT 
                                BENEFITS

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, as part of my ongoing effort 
to protect precious, hard-earned taxpayer dollars by going after waste, 
fraud, and abuse, I have introduced a commonsense bill, H.R. 1502--
listen up--the Social Security Disability Insurance and Unemployment 
Benefits Double Dip Elimination Act of 2013.
  This bill would stop people from receiving disability at the same 
time they are receiving unemployment. Under current law, a person can 
receive both disability and unemployment at the same time. This isn't 
right. It just doesn't make sense. I don't know how someone can be able 
and available to work and also be unable to work because of a 
disability.
  I urge my colleagues to support this commonsense bill in order to 
help make sure the disability program is there for those who truly 
cannot work.
  President Obama also included a similar proposal in his budget, and I 
look forward to working with the administration to get this bill signed 
into law.

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