Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Social Security Temporary Emergency Payee Act”.
Social Security Temporary Emergency Payee Act
A BILL
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide for the immediate designation of substitute representative payees, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Substitute representative payees
in subparagraph (A), by striking the second sentence; and
by adding at the end the following:
“(C) If the Commissioner of Social Security or a court of competent jurisdiction determines that the representative payee for an individual has died, has misused any individual's benefit paid to such representative payee pursuant to this subsection or section 807 or 1631(a)(2), or has otherwise become unable or unwilling to continue serving as a representative payee, the Commissioner of Social Security shall—
“(i) immediately revoke certification for payment of the individual’s benefits to such representative payee; and
“(ii)
“(I) notwithstanding paragraph (2), as of the date of the revocation required under clause (i), certify payment of such benefits, on a permanent or temporary basis, to a qualified organization (as defined in paragraph (4)(B)) to serve as a substitute representative payee for the individual; or
“(II) if the interest of the individual under this title would be served thereby, certify payment of such benefits to the individual.”
No deferral of benefit payment during selection of substitute payee— Section 205(j)(2)(D) of such Act (42 U.S.C. (j)(2)(D)) is amended—
in clause (i), by striking “clause (ii)” and inserting “clauses (ii) and (iii)”;
by redesignating clause (iii) as clause (iv); and
by inserting after clause (ii) the following:
“(iii) This subparagraph shall not apply with respect to the selection of a representative payee for an individual in any case in which a representative payee has previously been designated for such individual.”