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HR 2320 104th Congress House Social Welfare Crime and Law Enforcement Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Old age, survivors and disability insurance Prisoners Prisons Public assistance programs Social security eligibility Supplemental security income program Welfare fraud

To provide for the more effective implementation of the prohibition against the payment to prisoners of supplemental security income benefits under title XVI of the Social Security Act or monthly insurance benefits under title II of such Act, and to deny such supplemental security income benefits for 10 years to a person found to have fraudulently obtained such benefits while in prison.

Introduced: September 13, 1995 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Sep 18, 1995
Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
Sep 13, 1995
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Sep 13, 1995
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act to provide for payments to State and local prisons for monthly reports on the identities of inmates ineligible for benefits, especially those erroneously paid such a benefit.

Denies SSI benefits for ten years to a person found to have fraudulently obtained such benefits while in prison.

What's happening now September 18, 1995

Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.

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