Strengthening Protections for Social Security Beneficiaries Act of 2018
Latest action. Became public lawWhat a bill becomes when enacted, numbered by Congress and order of enactment: Public Law 119-4 is the 4th law of the 119th Congress.Read the full definition (opens a new tab) No: 115-165.
Strengthening Protections for Social Security Beneficiaries Act of 2018
TITLE I--STRENGTHENING OVERSIGHT AND BENEFICIARY PROTECTION
(Sec. 101) This bill requires the Social Security Administration (SSA) to make annual grants to each state's protection and advocacy system for the purpose of conducting reviews of representative payees under the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program and the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program. The SSA must also conduct periodic onsite reviews of individual and organizational payees.
(Sec. 102) The bill lessens certain monitoring requirements with respect to specified family members who are serving as representative payees.
(Sec. 103) The SSA must: (1) enter into agreements with each state for the purpose of sharing information to identify represented minor beneficiaries who are in foster care; and (2) determine the appropriate representative payee for any represented minor beneficiary who has entered foster care, exited foster care, or changed foster care placement in a given month.
The Government Accountability Office must report to specified congressional committees on certain issues related to represented minor beneficiaries in foster care.
(Sec. 104) The bill modifies provisions related to overpayment liability with respect to a represented minor beneficiary in foster care.
(Sec. 105) The SSA must report to specified congressional committees on certain issues related to representative payment with respect to SSI and OASDI benefits.
TITLE II--IMPROVING PAYEE SELECTION AND QUALITY
(Sec. 201) The bill provides for advance designation of representative payees.
(Sec. 202) In general, an individual who has been convicted of a felony, or of an attempt or a conspiracy to commit a felony, may not serve as a representative payee.
(Sec. 203) An individual who has a representative payee may not also serve as a representative payee.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Public Law" stage on April 13, 2018. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
This bill has been enacted. It is law.
The record's latest action, on April 13, 2018: Became Public Law No: 115-165.
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
SAM JOHNSON (R-TX) introduced it on December 5, 2017, and 75 members have since signed on as cosponsors.
They come from both major parties: 41 Democrats, 34 Republicans.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- HousePassed
- SenatePassed
- PresidentSigned into law