[Tall-Corn] FW: [nrliseminar] Direct Payments to SSI and SSDI Recipients included in House Coronavirus Relief Bill

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Subject: [nrliseminar] Direct Payments to SSI and SSDI Recipients included in House Coronavirus Relief Bill

Subject: Direct Payments to SSI and SSDI Recipients included in House Coronavirus Relief Bill

 

Colleagues:

 

The House COVID-19 relief bill includes direct payments to individuals. A point of dispute in the Senate bill relates to the definition of who would be eligible to receive the payments. The House bill grants payments to anyone who has an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN). That means that individuals who receive Supplemental Security Income (SSI) or Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) would receive the payments. The House bill also exempts these payments as counting from income or resources for purposes of eligibility for other federal assistance programs. 

 

Here is the language from the House bill summary at this link <https://appropriations.house.gov/sites/democrats.appropriations.house.gov/files/Take%20Responsibility%20for%20Workers%20and%20Families%20Act%20summary.pdf>  about that section.

 

Sec. 201. Economic Assistance to Individuals. This provision provides $1,500 of immediate assistance per individual, up to $7,500 for a family of five. Households with 2020 income over $150,000 for a joint filer, $112,500 for a head of household filer, and $75,000 for a single filer will be required to pay back part or all of the assistance payment over three years. For these households, the payment is a zero-interest loan. This benefit will also be available to our nation’s retirees. The Social Security Administration would issue payments immediately to all adult Social Security and Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries in the coming weeks, and the Internal Revenue Service would issue payments to all other individuals. Families do not need earned income to qualify for the assistance, so unemployed individuals still qualify. Filers can qualify as long as they have an individual taxpayer identification number. The payments will not count as income or resources for purposes of eligibility for other federal assistance programs; the payments would also be exempt the Treasury Offset Program and other levies.