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The bill extends Social Security and related Medicaid protections to disabled young adults aged 23–26, reducing family poverty and improving healthcare access, while increasing Social Security costs and creating modest administrative and program-complexity burdens.
Disabled young adults aged 23–26 would become newly eligible for child’s Social Security benefits, providing up to four additional years of direct income support.
People who gain these benefits would generally preserve Medicaid eligibility tied to Social Security status, improving healthcare access and continuity for those beneficiaries.
Families caring for disabled young adults would face reduced financial strain and lower short-term poverty risk because of extended benefit and healthcare protection.
Expanding eligibility will raise Social Security program costs, potentially increasing pressure on payroll funding needs or requiring reallocations that affect taxpayers.
The Social Security Administration and state agencies would face increased administrative workload to process more eligibility cases and coordinate Medicaid preservation, imposing operational and staffing burdens.
Adding beneficiaries could modestly increase program complexity around determining concurrent benefits and suspensions, creating short-term confusion for beneficiaries and providers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Raises the maximum age for receiving disability-based child’s insurance benefits under the Social Security Act from 22 to 26.
Introduced February 6, 2025 by Bill Cassidy · Last progress February 6, 2025
Raises the maximum age at which an otherwise-disabled child can receive child’s insurance benefits under the Social Security Act from 22 to 26. The change expands eligibility so more disabled young adults may qualify for benefits tied to a parent’s Social Security record. The bill accomplishes this by updating existing Social Security provisions to replace references to “age 22” with “age 26,” and makes matching conforming edits in related statutory cross-references. It does not specify an effective date in the provided text.