Social Security Administration

Social Security Administration payments to social security trust funds For payment to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds, as provided under section 217(a), 228(g), 229(b), and 1131(b)(2) of the Social Security Act, $760,774,000. special benefits for disabled coal miners For carrying out title IV of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, including the payment of travel expenses either on an actual cost or commuted basis, to an individual, for travel incident to medical examinations, and to parties, their representatives and all reasonably necessary witnesses for travel within the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, to reconsideration interviews and to proceedings before administrative law judges, $1,016,608,000: Provided, That after July 31, such amounts for benefit payments as may be necessary may be charged to the subsequent year appropriation. supplemental security income program For carrying out the Supplemental Security Income program under title XVI of the Social Security Act, section 401 of Public Law 92–603, section 212 of Public Law 93–66, as amended, and section 405 of Public Law 95–216, including payment to the social security trust funds for administrative expenses incurred pursuant to section 201 (g)(1) of the Social Security Act, $5,557,854,000: Provided, That for carrying out these activities after July 31, such sums as may be necessary shall be available, the obligations and expenditures therefor to be charged to the appropriation for the succeeding fiscal year: Provided further, That any portion of the funds provided to a State in the current fiscal year and not obligated by the State during that year shall be returned to the Treasury. assistance payments program For carrying out, except as otherwise provided, titles I, IV, X, XI and XIV of the Social Security Act, and the Act of July 5, 1960 (24 U.S.C., Ch. 9), $6,663,000,000. For making, after June 30 of the current fiscal year, payments to States under titles I, IV, X, XIV, and XVI, respectively, of the Social Security Act for the last three months of the current fiscal year; and for making after July 31 of the current fiscal year, payments for the first quarter of the succeeding fiscal year; such sums as may be necessary, the obligations incurred and the expenditures made thereunder for payments under each of such titles to be charged to the sub-92 STAT. 1582sequent appropriations therefor for the current or succeeding fiscal year. Such amounts as may be necessary from this appropriation shall be available for grants to States for any period in the prior fiscal year subsequent to June 30 of that year. national commission on social security For carrying out the purposes of the National Commission on Social Security established pursuant to section 361 of Public Law 95–216, $500,000 to remain available until expended. refugee assistance For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 (Public Law 87–510), relating to aid to Cuban refugees within the United States, including hire of passenger motor vehicles, and the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1975, as amended, $155,300,000: Provided, That $7,500,000 of the foregoing amount shall be apportioned for the purposes of the special projects authorized by section 2(c) of the Indochina Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1975, as amended, to be admin stered primarily by the private voluntary resettlement agencies. limitation on administrative expenses For necessary expenses, not more than $2,234,587,000 may be expended as authorized by section 201(g)(1) of the Social Security Act, from any one or all of the trust funds referred to therein: Provided, That such amounts as are required shall be available to pay travel expenses either on an actual cost or commuted basis, to an individual for travel incident to medical examinations, and to parties, their representatives and all reasonably necessary witnesses for travel within the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, to reconsider interviews and to proceedings before administrative law judges under title II, XVI, and XVIII of the Social Security Act: Provided further, That $25,000,000 of the foregoing amount shall be apportioned for use pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 66), only to the extent necessary to process workloads not anticipated in the budget estimates and to meet mandatory increases in costs of agencies or organizations with which agreements have been made to participate in the administration of titles XVI and XVIII and section 221 of the Social Security Act, and after maximum absorption of such costs within the remainder of the existing limitations has been achieved: Provided further, That $14,800,000 authorized herein shall be available only for acquisition of sites, construction and equipment of facilities and for payments of principal, interest, taxes and any other obligations under contracts entered into pursuant to the Public Buildings Purchase Contract Act of 1954 and the Public Buildings Amendments of 1972, and shall remain available until expended.