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[FR Doc No: 94-7097]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
 

Finding Regarding Foreign Social Insurance or Pension System--
Uruguay

AGENCY: Social Security Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice of finding regarding Foreign Social Insurance or Pension 
System--Uruguay.

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FINDING: Section 202(t)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
402(t)(1)) prohibits payment of monthly benefits to any individual who 
is not a United States citizen or national for any month after he or 
she has been outside the United States for 6 consecutive months. This 
prohibition does not apply to such an individual where one of the 
exceptions described in section 202(t)(2) through 202(t)(5) of the 
Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 402(t)(2) through 402(t)(5)) affects his 
or her case.
    Section 202(t)(2) of the Social Security Act provides that, subject 
to certain residency requirements of section 202(t)(11), the 
prohibition against payment shall not apply to any individual who is a 
citizen of a country which the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
finds has in effect a social insurance or pension system which is of 
general application in such country and which:
    (A) Pays periodic benefits, or the actuarial equivalent thereof, on 
account of old age, retirement, or death; and
    (B) Permits individuals who are United States citizens but not 
citizens of that country and who qualify for such benefits to receive 
those benefits, or the actuarial equivalent thereof, while outside the 
foreign country regardless of the duration of the absence.
    The Secretary of Health and Human Services has delegated the 
authority to make such a finding to the Commissioner of Social 
Security. The Commissioner has redelegated that authority to the 
Director of the Office of International Policy. Under that authority 
the Director of the Office of International Policy has approved a 
finding that Uruguay, beginning July 2, 1993, has a social insurance 
system of general application which:
    (A) Pays periodic benefits, or the actuarial equivalent thereof, on 
account of old age, retirement, or death; and
    (B) Permits United States citizens who are not citizens of Uruguay 
to receive such benefits, or their actuarial equivalent, at the full 
rate without qualification or restriction while outside Uruguay.
    Accordingly, it is hereby determined and found that Uruguay has in 
effect, beginning July 2, 1993, a social insurance system which meets 
the requirements of section 202(t)(2) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 402(t)(2)).
    This revises our previous finding, published at 33 FR 15679 on 
October 23, 1968, that Uruguay has in effect a social insurance system 
which is of general application in that country and which meets the 
requirements of section 202 (t)(2)(A) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 402(t)(2)(A)), but not the requirements of section 202(t)(2)(B) 
of the Act (42 U.S.C. 402(t)(2)(B)).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Donna Powers, room 1104, West High 
Rise Building, 6401 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21235, (410) 965-
3568.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance: Program Nos. 93.802 Social 
Security--Disability Insurance; 93.803 Social Security--Retirement 
Insurance; 93.805 Social Security--Survivors Insurance)

    Dated: December 10, 1993.
James A. Kissko,
Director, Office of International Policy.
[FR Doc. 94-7097 Filed 3-24-94; 8:45 am]
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