STUDY OF DENIAL OF SSI BENEFITS FOR FAMILY FARMERS.

SEC. 261. STUDY OF DENIAL OF SSI BENEFITS FOR FAMILY FARMERS. (a) In General.—The Commissioner of Social Security shall conduct a study of the reasons why family farmers with resources of less than $100,000 are denied supplemental security income benefits under title XVI of the Social Security Act, including whether the deeming process unduly burdens and discriminates against family farmers who do not institutionalize a disabled dependent, and shall determine the number of such farmers who 113 STAT. 1857have been denied such benefits during each of the preceding 10 years. (b) Report to the Congress.—Within 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Commissioner of Social Security shall prepare and submit to the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate a report that contains the results of the study, and the determination, required by subsection (a).