Sponsor
Jefferson Van Drew
Representative · R-NJ
Representative · R-NJ
The bill improves SSA record accuracy, verification, and oversight through faster DHS–SSA data sharing and annual reporting, but does so while expanding data flows and imposing major benefit losses and administrative, privacy, and fiscal burdens that will sharply reduce health care and safety-net access for many noncitizens and raise costs for governments and providers.
Immigrants with Social Security numbers will have SSA records updated more quickly when their citizenship, immigration, or work-authorization status changes, reducing incorrect benefit payments and overpayments.
Employers and government agencies that rely on SSA data will get more accurate work-authorization information, improving employment verification accuracy and reducing paperwork/processing errors for employers and federal employers.
Annual reporting and oversight of DHS–SSA notifications will increase transparency, help detect Social Security number fraud, and identify barriers so agencies can recommend and implement improvements to speed data sharing and service delivery.
Non-citizens and non-nationals would lose access to Social Security retirement, disability, and survivors benefits for months they lack citizenship, reducing income for affected elders and disabled people.
Non-citizens would be barred from Medicare, Medicaid, and CHIP, sharply reducing health care access for older and low-income noncitizen beneficiaries and shifting costs to hospitals and states.
Non-citizens would become ineligible for Supplemental Security Income and TANF cash assistance, removing critical poverty safety-net support for disabled people, parents, and low-income families.
Based on analysis of 4 sections of legislative text.
Requires DHS to notify SSA of citizenship/immigration/work-authorizations changes, and bars noncitizens/non-nationals from receiving many SSA-administered benefits for any month they lack citizenship or nationality.
Requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to notify the Social Security Administration (SSA) within 180 days when someone with a Social Security number has a change in citizenship, immigration status, or work authorization. It also requires DHS and SSA to produce an annual joint report on notifications, coordination, and the effect of notifications on preventing Social Security number fraud. For any month an individual is not a U.S. citizen or national, the bill bars that person from receiving a wide range of federal benefits administered under the Social Security Act and several related programs, including Social Security retirement/disability, Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, SSI, and TANF.
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to notify the Commissioner of Social Security when there is a change to the citizenship status, status under the immigration laws, or work authorization status of an individual to whom a social security account number has been issued, and to require that an individual be a citizen or national of the United States to receive benefits under the Social Security Act.
Introduced February 24, 2025 by Jefferson Van Drew · Last progress February 24, 2025