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Social Security Overpayment Relief Act

To amend the Social Security Act to limit the recovery of overpayments under titles II and XVI to a 10-year period.

Introduced Mar 13, 2025

Latest action (Mar 13, 2025) Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Referred to
Finance Committee
Policy area
Social Welfare

Summary

This bill amends the Social Security Act to limit the government's ability to recover overpayments made to beneficiaries under both the Social Security program and Supplemental Security Income program. Under the bill, the Social Security Administration can no longer recover overpayments or adjust future payments if the overpayment occurred 10 or more years before the agency discovers it. This creates a 10-year statute of limitations for pursuing overpayment recovery for both programs.

AI-generated plain-language summary of the bill text — neutral, and may be imperfect. See the full text below for the exact wording.

Sponsor (1)
1 cosponsor

Actions (2)
  1. Mar 13, 2025 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. · senate
  2. Mar 13, 2025 Introduced in Senate

Similar bills (6)

Bills with similar text or summary — includes reintroductions across Congresses. Ranked by semantic similarity of the bill text (computed locally); a neutral discovery aid, not a claim the bills are duplicates.

  • HR 2142 — Social Security Overpayment Relief Act · Introduced Mar 14, 2025 · Cong. 119 84%
  • HR 9385 — Protecting Americans from Social Security Clawbacks Act · Introduced Dec 17, 2024 · Cong. 118 76%
  • HR 3517 — Social Security Enhancement and Protection Act of 2025 · Introduced May 20, 2025 · Cong. 119 71%
  • HR 2999 — To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that not more than 10 percent of a monthly benefit may be withheld on account of overpayments. · Introduced Apr 24, 2025 · Cong. 119 70%
  • S 1234 — SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act · Introduced Apr 1, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%
  • S 1109 — Social Security Check Tax Cut Act · Introduced Mar 25, 2025 · Cong. 119 69%

Full text

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

March 13, 2025

Mr. Gallego (for himself and Mr. Cassidy) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

A BILL

To amend the Social Security Act to limit the recovery of overpayments under titles II and XVI to a 10-year period.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Social Security Overpayment Relief Act”.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON RECOVERY OF OVERPAYMENTS.

(a) Title II Limitation.—Section 204 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 404) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(h) In any case in which more than the correct amount of payment has been made, there shall be no adjustment of payments to, or recovery by the United States from, any person of an overpayment that occurred 10 or more years prior to the date on which the Commissioner finds that more than the correct amount of payment has been made to such person.”.

(b) Title XVI Limitation.—Section 1631(b) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1383(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:

“(9) In any case in which more than the correct amount of payment has been made, there shall be no adjustment of payments to, or recovery by the United States from, any person of an overpayment that occurred 10 or more years prior to the date on which the Commissioner finds that more than the correct amount of payment has been made to such person.”. <all>

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