Title 26Internal Revenue CodeRelease 119-73

§9602 Management of Trust Funds

Title 26 › Subtitle Subtitle I— - Trust Fund Code › Chapter CHAPTER 98— - TRUST FUND CODE › Subchapter Subchapter B— - General Provisions › § 9602

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Treasury Secretary must hold each Trust Fund created under subchapter A and, after talking with any other trustees, send Congress a yearly report. The report must cover the fund’s finances and what happened in the last fiscal year and must forecast the fund’s condition and operations for the next 5 fiscal years. That report must be printed as a House document for the session of Congress that receives it. The Treasury must invest any part of a Trust Fund that is not needed for current withdrawals only in interest‑paying U.S. government obligations. Those securities may be bought on original issue at the issue price or bought on the market at the market price. The Treasury may sell any such obligation at the market price. Interest and money from sales or redemptions must be returned to the same Trust Fund.

Full Legal Text

Title 26, §9602

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(a)It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to hold each Trust Fund established by subchapter A, and (after consultation with any other trustees of the Trust Fund) to report to the Congress each year on the financial condition and the results of the operations of each such Trust Fund during the preceding fiscal year and on its expected condition and operations during the next 5 fiscal years. Such report shall be printed as a House document of the session of the Congress to which the report is made.
(b)(1)It shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to invest such portion of any Trust Fund established by subchapter A as is not, in his judgment, required to meet current withdrawals. Such investments may be made only in interest-bearing obligations of the United States. For such purpose, such obligations may be acquired—
(A)on original issue at the issue price, or
(B)by purchase of outstanding obligations at the market price.
(2)Any obligation acquired by a Trust Fund established by subchapter A may be sold by the Secretary of the Treasury at the market price.
(3)The interest on, and the proceeds from the sale or redemption of, any obligations held in a Trust Fund established by subchapter A shall be credited to and form a part of the Trust Fund.

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26 U.S.C. § 9602

Title 26Internal Revenue Code

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73