To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that not more than 10 percent of a monthly benefit may be withheld on account of overpayments.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2999 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2999

 To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that not more
  than 10 percent of a monthly benefit may be withheld on account of
                             overpayments.

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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 24, 2025

 Mr. Evans of Pennsylvania (for himself, Ms. DeLauro, Ms. Lois Frankel
 of Florida, Mr. Larson of Connecticut, Ms. Barragan, Mr. Bishop, Mr.
Boyle of Pennsylvania, Mr. Davis of Illinois, Ms. Dexter, Mr. Doggett,
 Ms. Garcia of Texas, Ms. Norton, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Ms. Pingree,
Mrs. Ramirez, Ms. Sanchez, Ms. Sewell, Mr. Subramanyam, Mr. Suozzi, Ms.
  Tlaib, Mr. Thanedar, and Mr. Tonko) introduced the following bill;
         which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL

 To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that not more
  than 10 percent of a monthly benefit may be withheld on account of
                             overpayments.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. WITHHOLDING FOR RECOVERY OF OVERPAYMENTS.

    (a) In General.--Subparagraph (A) of section 204(a)(1) of the
Social Security Act is amended--
            (1) by striking ``With'' and inserting ``(i) Subject to
        clause (ii), with''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(ii) In the case of a payment to a person of more than
        the correct amount which the Commissioner does not have reason
        to believe was due to fraud or similar fault on the part of the
        individual, the Commissioner may not decrease the amount of a
        monthly benefit payable to an individual by more than 10
        percent of the amount payable, unless such individual requests
        a higher recovery rate.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this Act shall take
effect on the date of enactment of this Act, and shall be effective
with respect to overpayments under title II of the Social Security Act
that are outstanding on or after such date.
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