Protecting Supplemental Security Income for Disaster Victims Act
In committee: it can still change before the session ends.
- Stage
- In committee
- Started in
- House
- Sponsors
- 4
- Latest action
- Dec 15, 2025
What it does
The bill amends the Social Security Act to ensure that Supplemental Security Income (SSI) beneficiaries who receive settlement payments related to the East Palestine train derailment case (In Re: East Palestine Train Derailment, CASE NO. 4:23–CV–00242) do not have those payments counted as income or resources for SSI eligibility or benefit calculations. Specifically, it disregards such settlement amounts for both income and resource tests, applying the rule retroactively to benefits paid before enactment and prospectively for future months. This change aims to protect disaster victims from losing SSI benefits due to compensation received for personal injury, sickness, or property damage…
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