Social Security Overpayment Relief Act
Official title: To amend the Social Security Act to limit the recovery of overpayments under titles II and XVI to a ten-year period.
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Social Security Overpayment Relief Act
This bill prohibits the Social Security Administration from collecting overpayments made in error to Social Security or Supplemental Security Income recipients 10 or more years prior to the discovery of the error by the administration. This prohibition extends to the collection of funds directly from overpaid recipients and to the adjustment of future payments to those recipients.
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- 162 STRATEGIES
- NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO PRESERVE SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE
- MARIA FREESE
- NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO PRESERVE SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE
- MARIA FREESE
- 162 STRATEGIES
Bodies those filers lobbied
- HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
- SENATE
- Social Security Administration (SSA)
- Labor, Dept of (DOL)
- Health & Human Services, Dept of (HHS)
- Administration on Aging
- Executive Office of the President (EOP)
- Justice, Dept of (DOJ)
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2142: Social Security Overpayment Relief Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2142/
"H.R. 2142: Social Security Overpayment Relief Act." 119th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2142/.
H.R. 2142, 119th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-2142/.
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