Requires the Social Security Administration to share death records with the Treasury Department's Do Not Pay system to help prevent improper payments, and to notify partner agencies when someone is wrongly recorded as deceased.

• Directs the Commissioner of Social Security to provide death information to the Do Not Pay working system, to the extent feasible, for preventing and recovering improper benefit payments.
• Requires the Commissioner and the Do Not Pay agency to enter into an agreement dividing the proportional share of State death data costs.
• Bars the Commissioner from recording a death for an individual unless there is clear and convincing evidence that the person should be presumed deceased.
• Requires notifying any agency with a cooperative arrangement when an individual has been incorrectly identified as deceased.
• Sets the amendments to take effect on December 27, 2026.

• Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (Senate)

Social Welfare