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HR 3715 99th Congress House Social Welfare Old age, survivors and disability insurance Survivors' benefits Widowers Widows

A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide in certain cases for the payment of widow's, widower's, mother's, or father's insurance benefits to an otherwise eligible person who would qualify for such benefits as the insured individual's widow or widower except for the fact that (at the time of their marriage) such individual already had a legal spouse of whose existence such person was unaware.

Introduced: November 8, 1985 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Nov 27, 1985
Referred to Subcommittee on Social Security.
Nov 8, 1985
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Nov 8, 1985
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide for the payment of widow's, widower's, mother's, or father's insurance benefits to an otherwise eligible person who would qualify for such benefits as the insured individual's widow or widow, by reason of having lived as that individual's spouse at the time of that individual's death, except for the fact that, at the time of their marriage, such individual already had a legal spouse of whose existence such person was unaware.

Prorates such benefits between the widow or widower with whom the insured individual was living at the time of death and another widow or widower on the basis of the relative time each lived with the insured individual as his or her spouse.

What's happening now November 27, 1985

Referred to Subcommittee on Social Security.

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