119th Congress · HOUSE BILLBILL

H.R. 886Beat Bad Bureaucrats Act

To prohibit the Administrator of the Small Business Administration from garnishing social security benefits with respect to certain named individuals of covered loans who are victims of identity theft, and for other purposes.

Commerce
Introduced Jan 31, 2025
Last action Jan 31, 2025
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SummaryCRS Summary

This bill prohibits the Small Business Administration (SBA) from garnishing Social Security payments to victims of identity theft on account of certain delinquent SBA loans obtained fraudulently during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Specifically, the SBA may not garnish an individual’s Social Security payments related to a covered loan if (1) the individual’s name was used to fraudulently obtain the loan, and (2) the individual has reported the identity theft to the SBA. Under the bill, covered loans are Disaster Loans granted in response to COVID-19 between January 31, 2020, and December 31, 2021 (e.g., Economic Injury Disaster Loans) and loans granted under the Paycheck Protection Program. The p...

Provisions · 2 sectionsIntroduced in House
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Jan 31, 2025
Introduced in House
Jan 31, 2025
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.