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HR 2142 · in committee · significant

Social Security Overpayment Relief Act

What this bill does

  • The bill stops Social Security from collecting overpayments made to recipients more than 10 years ago.
  • This affects people who received extra Social Security or disability payments by mistake.
  • The agency cannot recover the money through direct collection or by reducing future payments.

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  1. 01

    How would stopping collection of decade-old Social Security overpayments affect the program's long-term solvency and annual budget?

  2. 02

    Which groups of recipients would benefit most from this relief, and how would they be identified by Social Security administrators?

  3. 03

    What safeguards would prevent future overpayments if the agency loses its ability to recover mistakes after ten years?

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Kristen McDonald Rivet

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Introduced 2025-03-14

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-03-14 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

  2. 2025-03-14 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  3. 2025-03-14 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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