To require gifts of less than $100 to be disregarded in determining income under the supplemental security income program under title XVI of the Social Security Act.

Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act to require gifts of less than $100 to be disregarded in determining income under the SSI program.

[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4908 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4908

  To require gifts of less than $100 to be disregarded in determining 
 income under the supplemental security income program under title XVI 
                      of the Social Security Act.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 11, 2002

 Mrs. Mink of Hawaii introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require gifts of less than $100 to be disregarded in determining 
 income under the supplemental security income program under title XVI 
                      of the Social Security Act.

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

SECTION 1. DISREGARD OF GIFTS OF LESS THAN $100 IN DETERMINING INCOME 
              UNDER THE SSI PROGRAM.

    Section 1612(b) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1381-1383c) 
is amended
            (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (21);
            (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (22) and 
        inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(23) any gift to, or for the benefit of, such individual 
        (or such spouse) which has a fair market value of less than 
        $100.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to gifts received in calendar months beginning after the date of 
the enactment of this Act.
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