United States HR 6358: Senior Guardianship Social Security Protection Act of 2022

Bill Text

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117TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION H. R. 6358
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to require the Commissioner
of Social Security to enter into agreements with States to share data
related to individuals subject to guardianship, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JANUARY 6, 2022
Mr. CRIST (for himself and Ms. MACE) introduced the following bill
JANUARY 10, 2022
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
A BILL
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to require
the Commissioner of Social Security to enter into agree-
ments with States to share data related to individuals
subject to guardianship, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Senior Guardianship 4
Social Security Protection Act of 2022’’. 5
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SEC. 2. INFORMATION SHARING RELATED TO STATE 1
GUARDIANSHIP STATUS. 2
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 205(j)(11) of the Social 3
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 405(j)(11)) is amended— 4
(1) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as sub-5
paragraph (C) and by inserting after subparagraph 6
(A) the following: 7
‘‘(B) The Commissioner of Social Security shall— 8
‘‘(i) enter into agreements with each State for 9
the purpose of sharing and matching data, on an 10
automated monthly basis, in the system of records 11
of the Social Security Administration with the sys-12
tem of records of each State to identify individuals 13
subject to guardianship in the State who, with re-14
spect to such month, are entitled to benefits under 15
this title that are certified for payment to a rep-16
resentative payee; and 17
‘‘(ii) in any case in which the guardianship ar-18
rangement for such an individual has changed in 19
such month, redetermine the appropriate representa-20
tive payee for such individual.’’; and 21
(2) in subparagraph (C) (as redesignated by 22
paragraph (1)), by amending clause (i) to read as 23
follows— 24
‘‘(i) the term ‘State’— 25
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‘‘(I) when used in subparagraph (A), has 1
the meaning given such term for purposes of 2
part E of title IV; and 3
‘‘(II) when used in subparagraph (B), has 4
the meaning given such term for purposes of 5
subtitle B of title XX;’’. 6
(b) REPORT.—Not later than 180 days after the date 7
of the enactment of this Act, and every 6 months there-8
after, the Administrator of the Social Security Adminis-9
tration shall submit to Congress a report containing the 10
number of social security payments that are being diverted 11
to non-family members as representative payees, broken 12
down by State. 13
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 14
subsection (a) shall apply with respect to months begin-15
ning on or after the date that is 90 days after the date 16
of the enactment of this Act. 17
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