§ 909. Delivery of benefit checks

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1935

   Social Security Amendments of 1977

   Pub. L. 95–216 title III § 333(a) · 91 Stat. 1509

   Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 909

   Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title VII, § 708, as added Pub. L. 95–216, title III, § 333(a), Dec. 20, 1977, 91 Stat. 1543

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title VII, § 708, as added Pub. L. 95–216, title III, § 333(a), Dec. 20, 1977, 91 Stat. 1543

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (a) Title VII of the Social Security Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: “Sec. 708. “delivery of benefit checks (a) If the day regularly designated for the delivery of benefit checks under title II or title XVI falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal public holiday (as defined in section 6103 of title 5, United States Code) in any month, the benefit checks which would otherwise be delivered on such day shall be mailed for delivery on the first day preceding such day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal public holiday (as so defined), without regard to whether the delivery of such checks would as a result have to be made before the end of the month for which such checks are issued. “(b) If more than the correct amount of payment under title II or XVI is made to any individual as a result of the receipt of a benefit check pursuant to subsection (a) before the, end of the month for which such check is issued, no action shall be taken (under section 42 USC 404, 1383. Effective date. 42 USC 909 note. 204 or 1631(b) or otherwise) to recover such payment or the incorrect portion thereof.”.

2. 1986

   Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985

   Pub. L. 99–272 title XII § 12111(a) · 100 Stat. 82

   Added · 42 U.S.C. § 909(c)

   Pub. L. 99–272 added subsec. (c)

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 99–272 added subsec. (c).

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (a) For OASDI Purposes.— Section 708 of the Social Security Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new 42 USC 909. subsection: “(c) For purposes of computing the ‘OASDI trust fund ratio’ under section 201(1), the ‘OASDI fund ratio’ under section 215(i), and the 42 USC 401. 42 USC 415. 42 USC 910. ‘balance ratio’ under section 709(b), benefit checks delivered before the end of the month for which they are issued by reason of subsection (a) of this section shall be deemed to have been delivered on the regularly designated delivery date.”.

   Effective date note
   Pub. L. 99–272, title XII, § 12111(c), Apr. 7, 1986, 100 Stat. 288, provided that: “The amendments made by this section [amending this section and section 86 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code] shall apply with respect to benefit checks issued for months ending after the date of the enactment of this Act [Apr. 7, 1986].”

3. 1999

   Pub. L. 106–169 title II § 251(b)(5) · 113 Stat. 1822

   Substituted · 42 U.S.C. § 909(a); 42 U.S.C. § 909(b)

   Pub. L. 106–169 substituted “subchapter II, VIII,” for “subchapter II”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 106–169 substituted “subchapter II, VIII,” for “subchapter II”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (5) Delivery of checks.— Section 708 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 908) is amended— 42 USC 909. (A) in subsection (a), by striking “title II” and inserting “title II, title VIII,”; and (B) in subsection (b), by striking “title II” and inserting “title II, title VIII,”.

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