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PUBLIC LAW 880-AUG. 1, 1956

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SUSPENSION OF BENEFITS OF ALIENS WHO ARE OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES

SEC. 118. (a) Section 202 of the Social Security Act is amended by adding after subsection (s) (added by section 102 of this Act) the following new subsection:

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"Suspension of Benefits of Aliens Who Are Outside the United States " (t)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, no monthly benefits shall be paid under this section or under section 223 to any individual who is not a citizen or national of the United States for any month which is— " (A) after the sixth consecutive calendar month during all of which the Secretary finds, on the basis of information furnished to him by the Attorney General or information which otherwise comes to his attention, that such individual is outside the United States, and " (B) prior t6 the first month thereafter for all of which such individual has been in the United States. "(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any individual who is a citizen of a foreign country which the Secretary finds has in effect a social insurance or pension system which is of general application in such country and under which— " (A) periodic benefits, or the actuarial equivalent thereof, are paid on account of old age, retirement, or death, and " (B) individuals who are citizens of the United States but not citizens of such foreign countrv and who qualify for such benefits are permitted to receive such benefits or the actuarial equivalent thereof while outside such foreign country without regard to the duration of the absence. "(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply in any case where its application would m contrary to any treaty obligation of the United States in effect on the date of the enactment of this subsection. "(4) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to any benefit for any month if— " (A) not less than forty of the quarters elapsing before such month are quarters of coverage for the individual on whose wages and self-employment income such benefit is based, or " (B) the individual on whose wages and seli-employment income such benefit is based has, before such month, resided in the United States for a period or periods aggregating ten years or more, or " (C) the individual entitled to such benefit is outside the United States while in the active military or naval service of the United States. "(5) No person who is, or upon application would be, entitled to a monthly benefit under this section for December 1956 shall be deprived, by reason of paragraph (1), of such benefit or any other benefit based on the wages and self-employment income of the individual on whose wages and self-employment income such monthly benefit for December 1956 is based. "(6) If an individual is outside the United States when he dies and no benefit may, by reason of paragraph (1), be paid to him for the month preceding the month in which he dies, no lump-sum death payment may be made on the basis of such individual's wages and selfemployment income. "(7) Subsections (b) and (c) of section 203 shall not apply with respect to any individual for any month for which no monthly benefit may be paid to him by reason of paragraph (1) of this subsection.

Ante, p. 815.

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