S 1023 · in committee · significant
Social Security Overpayment Relief Act
- economy
What this bill does
- The bill prevents Social Security from collecting overpayments that were made by mistake more than 10 years ago.
- Social Security and Supplemental Security Income recipients who received extra benefits are affected.
- The change takes effect immediately and eliminates debt collection and future payment adjustments for old overpayments.
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Community Threads
Started by Cosponsor
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How would eliminating collections on overpayments older than 10 years affect Social Security's trust fund solvency and future benefit levels?
- 02
What factors should determine whether recipients who unknowingly received overpayments should bear financial responsibility for errors made by the agency?
- 03
How do other federal benefit programs handle similar overpayment situations, and what outcomes resulted from their policies?
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Sponsor · D-AZ
Ruben Gallego
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Introduced 2025-03-13
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Legislative timeline
2025-03-13 · senate · IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
2025-03-13 · IntroReferral
Introduced in Senate
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