[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 4 (Monday, January 31, 1994)]
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[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Message to Congress Transmitting an Agreement With Greece on Social 
Security

January 26, 1994

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. 
433e)(1)), I transmit herewith the Agreement between the United States 
and Greece on Social Security, which consists of two separate 
instruments: a principal agreement and an administrative arrangement. 
The Agreement was signed at Athens on June 22, 1993.
    The United States-Greece agreement contains all provisions mandated 
by section 233 and other provisions which I deem appropriate to carry 
out the provisions of section 233, pursuant to section 233(c)(4). It is 
similar in objective to the social security agreements already in force 
with Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, 
Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, 
Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. 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.
    I also transmit for the information of the Congress a report 
prepared by the Department of Health and Human Services explaining the 
key points of the Agreement, along with a paragraph-by-paragraph 
explanation of the provisions of the principal agreement and the related 
administrative arrangement. Annexed to this report is the report 
required by section 233(e)(1) of the Social Security Act on the effect 
of the Agreement on income and expenditures of the U.S. Social Security 
program and the number of individuals affected by the Agreement. The 
Department of State and the Department of Health and Human Services have 
recommended the Agreement and related documents to me.
    I commend the United States-Greece Social Security Agreement and 
related documents.
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
January 26, 1994.