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106th Congress

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E. Clay Shaw, Jr. (FL), Chairman

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  1. Impacts of the Current Social Security System
  2. Investing  in the Private Market
  3. Barriers Preventing Disability Beneficiaries From Returning to Work
  4. Social Security's Goals and Criteria for Assessing Reforms
  5. 1999 Social Security Trustees' Report
  6. Y2K and Other Social Security Information Technology Issues
  7. Management of Disability Cases (Joint Hearing with Subcommittee on Human Resources)
  8. Examining Social Security's Readiness for the Impending Wave of Baby Boomer Beneficiaries
  9. Improving Social Security Work Incentives
  10. Work Incentives for Blind and Disabled Social Security Beneficiaries
  11. Social Security Program Integrity Activities
  12. 2000 Social Security Trustees' Report
  13. Efforts to Inform the Public about Social Security
  14. Social Security Representative Payees
  15. Use and Misuse of Social Security Numbers
  16. Processing of Attorney Fees by the Social Security Administration
  17. Social Security Government Pension Offset
  18. Challenges Facing Social Security Disability Programs in the 21st Century
  19. Protecting Privacy and Preventing Misuse of the Social Security Number, Delray Beach, Florida
  20. Global Aging Crisis
  21. Social Security Notices

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Recent Social Security-Related Prints and Publications

  • WMCP:  106-14
    Background Material and Data on Programs Within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means, "The 2000 Green Book." The 2000 Green Book can be searched as a database and viewed in a text or .pdf format. Type 'green book' in the Search Terms field to retrieve all sections of the Green Book. (Please note that due to the large size of many of the sections, it may be necessary to increase the Disk Cache setting in your web browser when viewing the Green Book).  The Social Security-related sections of the Green Book are located here .
  • WMCP:  106-2
    Compilation of the Social Security Laws, Including the Social Security Act, as Amended, and Related Enactments Through January 1, 1999.
  • WMCP 105-7
    Background Material and Data on Programs Within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means, "The 1998 Green Book." The 1998 Green Book can be searched as a database and viewed in a text or .pdf format. Type 'green book' in the Search Terms field to retrieve all sections of the Green Book. (Please note that due to the large size of many of the sections, it may be necessary to increase the Disk Cache setting in your web browser when viewing the Green Book).

Subcommittee Jurisdiction

The jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Social Security shall include bills and matters referred to the Committee on Ways and Means which relate to the Federal Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance System, the Railroad Retirement System, and employment taxes and trust fund operations relating to those systems. More specifically, the jurisdiction of the Subcommittee on Social Security shall include bills and matters involving title II of the Social Security Act and Chapter 22 of the Internal Revenue Code (the Railroad Retirement Tax Act), as well as provisions in title VII and title XI of the Act relating to procedure and administration involving the Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance System.

Source: "Manual of Rules of the Committee on Ways and Means for the One Hundred Sixth Congress," WMCP: 106-1.


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