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HB1221Introduced in the House

Social Security and Medicare Lock-Box Act

IntroducedHouse Ways And Means

Introduced by Tim Walberg, District MI-5

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Official description

To amend titles II and XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish a Social Security Surplus Protection Account in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund to hold the Social Security surplus and a Medicare Surplus Protection Account in the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund to hold the Medicare surplus, to provide for suspension of investment of amounts held in such Accounts until enactment of legislation providing for investment of the Trust Funds in investment vehicles other than obligations of the United States, and to establish a Social Security and Medicare Part A Investment Commission to make recommendations for alternative forms of investment of the Social Security and Medicare surpluses.

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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

February 11, 2025

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Bill history

  1. Introduced in House

  2. Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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