effect on benefits of conviction of espionage, sabotage, treason, sedition, or subversive activities; employment by communist organizations

effect on benefits of conviction of espionage, sabotage, treason, sedition, or subversive activities; employment by communist organizations Sec. 121. (a) Section 202 of the Social Security Act is amended by adding after subsection (t) (added by section 118 of this Act) the following new subsection: “Conviction of Subversive Activities, Etc. “(u) (1) If any individual is convicted of any offense (committed after the date of the enactment of this subsection) under— “(A) chapter 37 (relating to espionage and censorship), chapter 105 (relating to sabotage), or chapter 115 (relating to treason, sedition, and subversive activities) of title 18 of the United States Code, or “(B) section 4, 112, or 113 of the Internal Security Act of 1950, as amended, then the court may, in addition to all other penalties provided by law, impose a penalty that in determining whether any monthly insurance benefit under this section or section 223 is payable to such individual for the month in which he is convicted or for any month thereafter, and in determining the amount of any such benefit payable to such individual for any such month, there shall not be taken into account— “(C) any wages paid to such individual or to any other individual in the calendar quarter in which such conviction occurs or in any prior calendar quarter, and “(D) any net earnings from self-employment derived by such individual or by any other individual during a taxable year in which such conviction occurs or during any prior taxable year. “(2) As soon as practicable after an additional penalty has, pursuant to paragraph (1), been imposed with respect to any individual, the Attorney General shall notify the Secretary of such imposition. “(3) If any individual with respect to whom an additional penalty has been imposed pursuant to paragraph (1) is granted a pardon of the offense by the President of the United States, such additional penalty shall not apply for any month beginning after the date on which such pardon is granted.” (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) of this section shall not be construed to restrict or otherwise affect any of the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to prohibit payments of annuities to officers and employees of the United States convicted of certain offenses, and for other purposes”, approved September 1, 1954 (Public Law 769, Eighty-third Congress). 70 Stat. 839 (c) Section 210 (a) of the Social Security Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: “(17) Service in the employ of any organization which is performed (A) in any quarter during any part of which such organization is registered, or there is in effect a final order of the Subversive Activities Control Board requiring such organization to register, under the Internal Security Act of 1950, as amended, as a Communist-action organization, a Communist front organization, or a Communist-infiltrated organization, and (B) after June 30, 1956.” (d) Section 3121 (b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: “(17) service in the employ of any organization which is performed (A) in any quarter during any part of which such organization is registered, or there is in effect a final order of the Subversive Activities Control Board requiring such organization to register, under the Internal Security Act of 1950, as amended, as a Communist-action organization, a Communist-front organization, or a Communist-infiltrated organization, and (B) after June 30, 1956.”