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S. 218, Social Security Fraud Prevention Act of 2017 1 (March 23, 2017)

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                  CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE
                             COST   ESTIMATE

                                                                  March 23, 2017



                                    S.218
               Social Security  Fraud   Prevention  Act  of 2017

         As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security
                    and Governmental Affairs on March 15, 2017


S. 218 would prohibit federal agencies from including social security account numbers on
any documents sent by mail unless the agency determines that inclusion of the number is
necessary. There are many federal laws and regulations that address the protection of
sensitive information including the Federal Information Security Management Act, the
Privacy Act of 1974, and a 2007 memorandum from the Office of Management and
Budget on safeguarding and responding to the disclosure of personally identifiable
information. Because of those laws and rules, CBO expects that most agencies are
working to limit the amount of personally identifiable information that they collect and
disseminate. As a consequence, CBO estimates that implementing S. 218 would have no
significant cost over the next five years.

Enacting the legislation could affect direct spending by agencies not funded through
annual appropriations; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. CBO estimates,
however, that any net increase in spending by those agencies would be negligible.
Enacting S. 218 would not affect revenues.

CBO  estimates that enacting S. 218 would not increase net direct spending or on-budget
deficits in any of the four consecutive 10-year periods beginning in 2028.

S. 218 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the
Unfunded Mandates  Reform Act and would impose no costs on state, local, or tribal
governments.

On February 24, 2017, CBO transmitted a cost estimate for H.R. 624, the Social Security
Fraud Prevention Act of 2017, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight
and Government Reform  on February 14, 2017. The two pieces of legislation are similar
and CBO's estimates of their budgetary effects are the same.

The CBO  staff contact for this estimate is Matthew Pickford. The estimate was approved
by H. Samuel Papenfuss, Deputy Assistant Director for Budget Analysis.

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