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S 1570 101th Congress Senate Social Welfare Administrative remedies Legal fees Old age, survivors and disability insurance Public assistance programs Supplemental security income program

A bill to amend the Social Security Act to partially deregulate the collection of fees for the representation of claimant in administrative proceedings.

Introduced: August 4, 1989 See on congress.gov
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Aug 4, 1989
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Aug 4, 1989
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act to allow the representative of a claimant in an administrative proceeding to collect the fee agreed upon between the claimant and such representative which is specified in a written agreement filed with the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Requires the Secretary to approve such fee if it does not exceed the lesser of: (1) $4,000; or (2) 25 percent of past-due benefits (including any interim benefits paid during appeal) or, in the absence of such benefits, the lesser of three times the basic monthly benefit amount or the monthly benefit amount. Directs the Secretary to review a fee upon receipt of a written request for such review from the claimant, representative, administrative law judge, or other decision maker. Calculates such fees before reducing past-due OASDI benefits by the amount of worker's compensation and SSI benefits which would not have been received were OASDI benefits paid when due.

What's happening now August 4, 1989

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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