HR 2716
Advanced toward a vote
Requires the Social Security Administration to share death records with the Treasury's Do Not Pay system to help prevent improper payments, and bars it from recording a death without clear and convincing evidence.
Official title: Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
08-APR-2025
Referred
08-APR-2025
Approved by committee
10-DEC-2025
Reported
07-JAN-2026
On the calendar
07-JAN-2026
- Requires the Social Security Commissioner to share information with the Do Not Pay working system, to the extent feasible, to help prevent and recover improper benefit payments.
- Requires the two agencies to enter into an agreement on a methodology for sharing the proportional cost of State death data.
- Bars the Commissioner from recording a death for an individual unless there is clear and convincing evidence the individual should be presumed deceased.
- Requires the Commissioner to notify any agency with a cooperative arrangement when an individual has been incorrectly identified as deceased. Applies to amendments taking effect December 27, 2026.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (08-APR-2025); the text has changed since (Reported in House, 07-JAN-2026).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Ways and Means Committee (House)
Social Welfare
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2 Republicans