Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§11 Untitled Section

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 21— - SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL CLAIMS › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV— - CLAIMS AGAINST CZECHOSLOVAKIA › § 11

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Require the Secretary of State to do a detailed review of the letters between the United States and Czechoslovakia on reciprocal social security payments. The review must check whether Czechoslovakia is following the letters, compare benefits for residents of both countries, and explain reasons for any differences. With the Department of Health and Human Services, the Secretary must report to Congress no later than six months after Dec. 29, 1981. The report must give the findings, recommend laws or changes to make benefits fairer, and assess whether ending U.S. social security payments to residents of Czechoslovakia would be feasible, its likely effects, and whether it should be done.

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Title 22, §11

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The Secretary of State shall conduct a detailed review of the exchange of letters between the United States and Czechoslovakia providing for reciprocal social security payments to residents of the two countries. Such review should include an examination of the extent to which Czechoslovakia is complying with the spirit and provisions of the letters, a comparison of the benefits being realized by residents of Czechoslovakia and of the United States under the letters, and an evaluation of the basis of differences in such benefits. The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Department of Health and Human Services, shall report to the Congress, not later than six months after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 29, 1981], the results of such review, together with any recommendations for legislation or changes in the agreement made by the letters that may be necessary to achieve greater comparability and equity of benefits for the residents of the two countries. Such report should include specific assessments of the feasibility, likely effects, and advisability of terminating United States social security payments to residents of Czechoslovakia in response to inequities and incomparabilities of benefits payments under the exchange of letters.”

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22 U.S.C. § 11

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73