Official Summaries

Social Security Overpayment Relief Act

This bill prohibits the Social Security Administration from collecting overpayments made in error to Social Security or Supplemental Security Income recipients 10 or more years prior to the discovery of the error by the administration. This prohibition extends to the collection of funds directly from overpaid recipients and to the adjustment of future payments to those recipients. 

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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1023 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1023

To amend the Social Security Act to limit the recovery of overpayments 
              under titles II and XVI to a 10-year period.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 13, 2025

  Mr. Gallego (for himself and Mr. Cassidy) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Social Security Act to limit the recovery of overpayments 
              under titles II and XVI to a 10-year period.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Social Security Overpayment Relief 
Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON RECOVERY OF OVERPAYMENTS.

    (a) Title II Limitation.--Section 204 of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 404) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(h) In any case in which more than the correct amount of payment 
has been made, there shall be no adjustment of payments to, or recovery 
by the United States from, any person of an overpayment that occurred 
10 or more years prior to the date on which the Commissioner finds that 
more than the correct amount of payment has been made to such 
person.''.
    (b) Title XVI Limitation.--Section 1631(b) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 
1383(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(9) In any case in which more than the correct amount of payment 
has been made, there shall be no adjustment of payments to, or recovery 
by the United States from, any person of an overpayment that occurred 
10 or more years prior to the date on which the Commissioner finds that 
more than the correct amount of payment has been made to such 
person.''.
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