Meeting our Seniors' Social Security Needs Act
This bill requires the Social Security Administration (SSA) to ensure that each SSA office and state agency that makes disability determinations for Social Security disability benefits is fully staffed to answer phone calls during standard business hours.
To amend the Social Security Act to ensure that each office of the 
    Social Security Administration and each State agency that makes 
 disability determinations are fully staffed with employees to answer 
          calls during business hours, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Meeting our Seniors' Social Security 
Needs Act''.

SEC. 2. TELEPHONE HOURS AT SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION OFFICES AND 
              CERTAIN STATE OFFICES.

    (a) In General.--Section 205 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
405) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(v) Telephone Hours at Social Security Administration Offices.--
The Commissioner of Social Security shall ensure that each office of 
the Social Security Administration and each State agency that makes 
disability determinations as described in section 221(a)(1) is fully 
staffed with employees to answer calls during standard business hours, 
including 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. local time, Mondays, Tuesdays, 
Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, excluding Federal holidays.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
take effect on January 1, 2023.
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Meeting our Seniors’ Social Security Needs Act
To amend the Social Security Act to ensure that each office of the Social Security Administration and each State agency that makes disability determinations are fully staffed with employees to answer calls during business hours, and for other purposes.
Meeting our Seniors’ Social Security Needs Act
Rep. Axne, Cynthia