[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 21 (Monday, May 29, 2000)]
[Pages 1188-1189]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Message to the Congress Transmitting the Chile-United States Agreement 
on Social Security With Documentation

May 22, 2000

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)) (the ``Act''), I transmit herewith the Agreement Between the 
United States of America and the Republic of Chile on Social Security, 
which consists of two separate instruments: a principal agreement and an 
administrative arrangement. The Agreement was signed at Santiago on 
February 16, 2000.
    The United States-Chilean Agreement is similar in objective to the 
social security agreements already in force between the United States 
and Austria, Belgium, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, 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. The 
United States-Chilean Agreement contains all provisions mandated by 
section 233 and other provisions that I deem appropriate to carry out 
the purposes of section 233, pursuant to section 233(c)(4) of the Act.
    I also transmit for the information of the Congress a report 
prepared by the Social Security Administration explaining the key

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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, a report 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 Social Security 
Administration have recommended the Agreement and related documents to 
me.
                                            William J. Clinton
 The White House,
 May 22, 2000.