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Code · BILL · 114th Congress · H.R. 3777 (Introduced in House) — To provide for relief from sequester under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 and offsets... · Sec. 401

Sec. 401. Adjustments in supplemental security income benefits for certain long-time beneficiaries

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Title XVI of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1381 et seq. ) is amended by inserting after section 1617 the following: In the case of an eligible individual to whom benefits under this title (or under section 211 of Public Law 93–66 ) have been payable for at least 240 months (whether or not consecutive) and whose benefits under this title (or under such section 211) have been increased under this section fewer than 5 times, whenever benefit amounts under title II are increased by any percentage effective with any month as a result of a determination made under section 215(i) of this Act— each of the dollar amounts in effect for the month with respect to the eligible individual under subsections (a)(1)(A), (a)(2)(A), (b)(1), and (b)(2) of section 1611 of this title, and subsection (a)(1)(A) of section 211 of Public Law 93–66 , as specified in such subsections or as previously increased under section 1617 of this title or this section, shall be increased by the amount (if any) by which— the amount which would have been in effect under such subsections for the month with respect to the individual but for the rounding of the amount pursuant to section 1617(a)(2) of this title or paragraph
(2)of this subsection, exceeds the amount in effect for the month under such subsections with respect to the individual; and the amount obtained under paragraph
(1)with respect to each subsection with respect to the individual shall be further increased by 1 percent of the amount so obtained with respect to the individual the 1st time this section is applied with respect to the individual, (and rounded, when not a multiple of $12, to the next lower multiple of $12), effective with respect to benefits for months after the month. The new dollar amounts to be in effect under section 1611 of this title and under section 211 of Public Law 93–66 by reason of the application of subsection
(a)of this section with respect to eligible individuals shall be published in the Federal Register together with, and at the same time as, the material required by section 215(i)(2)(D) of this Act to be published therein by reason of the determination involved. . Subsections (a)(1)(A), (a)(2)(A), (b)(1), (b)(2), and (b)(6) of section 1611 of such Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1382 ) are each amended by inserting or 1617A after 1617 . Section 1617(a)(1) of such Act ( 42 U.S.C. 1382f(a)(1) ) is amended— in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), by inserting or section 1617A after this section ; and in subparagraph (A), by inserting or section 1617A(a)(2)) after paragraph
(2). The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to benefits payable for months beginning after calendar year in which this Act is enacted.
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Adjustments in supplemental security income benefits for certain long-time beneficiaries
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