[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 44, Number 8 (Monday, March 3, 2008)]
[Page 300]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

<R04>
Message to the Congress Transmitting the Denmark-United States Social 
Security Agreement

February 28, 2008

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)), I transmit herewith the Agreement Between the United States 
of America and the Kingdom of Denmark on Social Security, which consists 
of two separate instruments: a principal agreement and an administrative 
arrangement. The agreement was signed at Copenhagen on June 13, 2007.
    The United States-Denmark Agreement is similar in objective to the 
social security agreements already in force with Australia, Austria, 
Belgium, Canada, Chile, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, 
Italy, Japan, Korea, 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-Denmark 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).
    I also transmit for the information of the Congress a report 
prepared by the Social Security Administration 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. Attached to this report is the report required by section 
233(e)(1) of the Social Security Act, which describes 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.
    I commend to the Congress the United States-Denmark Social Security 
Agreement and related documents.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 February 28, 2008.