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
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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
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
Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
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