Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act
United States116th CongressS-1333Senate
Updated: Jun 25, 2019
Summary
Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act This bill requires the Social Security Administration (SSA) to pay to states their reasonable costs for compiling and sharing records of deaths with the SSA. Under current law, the SSA is not required to pay the states but may choose to do so. The SSA may share the death data with federal and state agencies for various purposes. Such purposes include ensuring proper payments of benefits and tax administration duties. The Office of Management and Budget shall develop guidance for federal agencies that collect death data, and the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Health and Human Services shall jointly develop a plan to assist and states, local agencies, and Indian tribes in providing the data.
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HR-2543: Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People ActReferred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in Senate
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
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Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson without amendment. With written report No. 116-49.
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Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 126.
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