Protects seniors from old Social Security overpayments and big monthly deductions due to agency error.
New rules would limit how the government gets back certain Social Security overpayments from seniors. It would stop recovery of old-age benefit overpayments caused by agency error if they happened over 6 months ago. Also, monthly deductions for these errors would be capped at 5% of the benefit, unless fraud is involved.
Today, the Social Security Administration can get back overpayments from people, even if the agency made the mistake. There are no specific time limits or caps on how much they can deduct each month for agency errors. After this bill, the SSA would not be able to get back old-age benefit overpayments caused by its own error if the mistake happened more than 6 months before it was found. Also, monthly deductions for such errors would be capped at 5% of the benefit, unless the person committed fraud.
HR 10243 · 119th Congress · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 9/10
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