A bill to amend the Social Security Act to establish a procedure for the prompt payment of social security benefits to individuals whose social security checks have been lost, stolen, or otherwise delayed; to expedite hearings and determinations respecting claims for benefits under titles II, XVI, and XVIII of the act and part B of title IV of Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969; and to amend title II of the Social Security Act to limit to 25 percent the reduction that may be made in an individual's benefit check for any month because of any previous overpayments of monthly benefits.
Social Security Recipients Fairness Act - Title I: Replacement of Lost, Stolen, or Delayed Checks - Requires the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to establish procedures for expedited payment of monthly benefits. Requires the Secretary, within one day after the date an individual files for late payment of benefits, to cause such monthly insurance benefits to be paid.
Title II: Expediting of Hearings and Determination - States that in administration of the programs established by titles II, (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Benefits) XVI, (Grants to States for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled), and XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, the Secretary shall establish procedures designed to assure that: (1) any duly requested hearing to which an individual is entitled will be held within a reasonable period of time after requested, if such hearing is requested with respect to a determination of entitlement to benefits; and (2) not later than ninety days after such a hearing is requested, the Secretary shall render a final determination on the issues, or if no final determination of the Secretary has been made at that time, the Secretary shall make payments of benefits to such individual in like manner as if a final determination has been made full in favor of such individual.
Title III: Expedited Payment of Black Lung Benefits; and Expedited Hearings and Determinations Respecting Such Benefits - Provides for expedited payments of black lung benefits under the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act. Directs the Secretary to establish procedures for expediting hearings and determinations on claims for such benefits.
Title IV: Limitation of Benefit Reduction to Compensate for Benefit Overpayment - Limits to 25 percent the reduction that may be made in an individual's Social Security benefit check for any month because of any previous overpayment of monthly benefits.
Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Introduced in Senate
Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
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