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Requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to notify the Social Security Administration (SSA) within 180 days whenever a person with a Social Security number has a change in citizenship, immigration status, or work authorization, and requires DHS and SSA to submit a joint annual report to Congress on those notifications and their effects. Separately, it bars noncitizens and nonnationals from receiving a long list of federal benefits (including Social Security retirement/survivors/disability insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, SSI, certain state programs under title IV, and any SSA-administered benefits) for any month they are not U.S. citizens or nationals.
The bill seeks to improve DHS–SSA data sharing, oversight, and fraud safeguards to reduce benefit errors and speed record corrections, but it concurrently strips broad federal benefit eligibility from many noncitizens—creating large health, economic, privacy, legal, and fiscal risks for immigrants and significant downstream costs and burdens for state, local, and federal systems.
Immigrants: DHS reporting to SSA and improved interagency coordination will make Social Security records more accurate about citizenship and work-authority, reducing payment errors and incorrect benefit determinations for people whose status changes.
Federal agencies and beneficiaries: Better DHS–SSA data sharing and joint reviews of coordination, data management, and security can streamline benefit administration, reduce duplicate systems and manual reconciliation, and surface best practices that improve service efficiency.
Congress and taxpayers: Requiring DHS and SSA to provide annual, joint reporting on status-change notifications and related metrics increases transparency and gives Congress data to oversee program integrity and administration.
Noncitizen seniors and disabled people: The bill would remove entitlement to Social Security retirement and disability benefits while not citizens, sharply reducing income for affected seniors and disabled noncitizens.
Noncitizen Medicare-eligible people: The bill would bar many noncitizens from Medicare benefits, risking loss of hospital and physician coverage for older and disabled noncitizens.
Noncitizen children and low-income families: Denying Medicaid and CHIP eligibility to some noncitizens will increase uninsured rates and reduce access to care for children and families.
Introduced February 24, 2025 by Jefferson Van Drew · Last progress February 24, 2025