Advisory Council on Social Security Sec. 706. (a) During 1969 (but not before February 1, 1969) and every fourth year thereafter (but not before February 1 of such fourth year), the Secretary shall appoint an Advisory Council on Social Security for the purpose of reviewing the status of the Federal OldAge and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund in relation to the long-term commitments of the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program and the programs under parts A and B of title XVIII, and of reviewing the scope of coverage and the adequacy of benefits under, and all other aspects of, these programs, including their impact on the public assistance programs under this Act. (b) Each such Council shall consist of a Chairman and 12 other persons, appointed by the Secretary without regard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing appointments in the competitive service. The appointed members shall, to the extent possible, represent organizations of employers and employees in equal numbers and represent self-employed persons and the public. (c) (1) Any Council appointed hereunder is authorized to engage such technical assistance, including actuarial services, as may be required to carry out its functions, and the Secretary shall, in addition, make available to such Council such secretarial, clerical, and other assistance and such actuarial and other pertinent data prepared by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as it may require to carry out such functions. (2) Appointed members of any such Council, while serving on business of the Council (inclusive of travel time) shall receive compensation at rates fixed by the Secretary, but not exceeding $100 per day and, while so serving away from their homes or regular places of business, they may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 of title 5, United States Code, for persons in the Government employed intermittently. (d) Each such Council shall submit reports (including any interim reports such Council may have issued) of its findings and recommendations to the Secretary not later than January 1 of the second year after the year in which it is appointed, and such reports and recommendations shall thereupon be transmitted to the Congress and to the Board of Trustees of each of the Trust Funds. The reports required by this subsection shall include (1) a separate report with respect to the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program under title II and of the taxes imposed under sections 1401 (a), 3101 (a), and 3111 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, (2) a separate report with respect to the hospital insurance program under part A of title XVIII and of the taxes imposed by sections 1401 (b), 3101 (b), and 3111 (b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, and (3) a separate report with respect to the supplementary medical insurance program established by part B of title XVIII and of the financing thereof. After the date of the transmittal to the Congress of the reports required by this subsection, the Council shall cease to exist.1 Grants for Expansion and Development of Undergraduate and Graduate Programs Sec. 707. (a) There is authorized to be appropriated $5,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969, and $5,000,000 for each of the three succeeding fiscal years, for grants by the Secretary to public or nonprofit private colleges and universities and to accredited graduate schools of social work or an association of such schools to meet part of the costs of development, expansion, or improvement of (respectively) undergraduate programs in social work and programs for the graduate training of professional social work personnel, including the costs of compensation of additional faculty and administrative personnel and minor improvements of existing facilities. Not less than one-half of the sums appropriated for any fiscal year under the authority of this subsection shall be used by the Secretary for grants with respect to undergraduate programs. (b) In considering applications for grants under this section, the Secretary shall take into account the relative need in the States for personnel trained in social work and the effect of the grants thereon. (c) Payment of grants under this section may be made (after necessary adjustments on account of previously made overpayments or underpayments) in advance or by way of reimbursement, and on such terms and conditions and in such installments, as the Secretary may determine. (d) For purposes of this section (1) the term "graduate school of social work" means a department, school, division, or other administrative unit, in a public or nonprofit private college or university, which provides, primarily or exclusively, a program of education in social work and allied subjects leading to a graduate degree in social work; (2) the term "accredited" as applied to a graduate school of social work refers to a school which is accredited by a body or 1 See also sec. 372 of P.L. 95-216. bodies approved for the purpose by the Commissioner of Education or with respect to which there is evidence satisfactory to the Secretary that it will be so accredited within a reasonable time; and (3) the term "nonprofit" as applied to any college or university refers to a college or university which is a corporation or association, or is owned and operated by one or more corporations or associations, no part of the net earnings of which inures, or may lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual. Delivery of Benefit Checks Sec. 708. (a) If the day regularly designated for the delivery of benefit checks under title II or title XVI falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or legal public holiday (as defined in section 6103 of title 5, United States Code) in any month, the benefit checks which would otherwise be delivered on such day shall be mailed for delivery on the first day preceding such day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal public holiday (as so defined), without regard to whether the delivery of such checks would as a result have to be made before the end of the month for which such checks are issued. (b) If more than the correct amount of payment under title II or XVI is made to any individual as a result of the receipt of a benefit check pursuant to subsection (a) before the end of the month for which such check is issued, no action shall be taken (under section 204 or 1631 (b) or otherwise) to recover such payment or the incorrect portion thereof.1 TITLE VIII-TAXES WITH RESPECT TO EMPLOYMENT [Note. The provisions of this title are now contained in, and are superseded by, chapter 21 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954.] 1 Section 708 was added by sec. 333 of P.L. 95-216. TITLE IX-MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY Sec. 901. Employment Security Administration Account_. (a) Establishment of Account____ (b) Appropriations to Account_. (c) Administrative Expenditures__. (d) Additional Tax Attributable to Reduced Credits__. (f) Determination of Excess and Amount To Be Retained Sec. 902. Transfers Between Federal Unemployment Account and Em ployment Security Administration Account_. Page1 279 279 279 280 282 282 283 285 (a) Transfers to Federal Unemployment Account------ 285 285 Board (g) Federal Unemployment Account_ (a) Establishment of Account---. (b) Transfers to Account____ (c) Transfers to State Accounts- (f) Payments to State Agencies and Railroad Retirement Sec. 905. Extended Unemployment Compensation Account_. (d) Advances to Extended Unemployment Compensation Sec. 906. Unemployment Compensation Research Program_- Sec. 908. Federal Advisory Council. Sec. 909. Federal Employees Compensation Account... Employment Security Administration Account Establishment of Account Section 901. (a) There is hereby established in the Unemployment Trust Fund an employment security administration account. Appropriations to Account (b) (1) There is hereby appropriated to the Unemployment Trust Fund for credit to the employment security administration account, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1961, and for each fiscal year thereafter, an amount equal to 100 per centum of the tax (including inter This table of contents does not appear in the law. 290 290 291 291 291 292 292 292 293 294 294 est, penalties, and additions to the tax) received during the fiscal year under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act and covered into the Treasury. (2) The amount appropriated by paragraph (1) shall be transferred at least monthly from the general fund of the Treasury to the Unemployment Trust Fund and credited to the employment security administration account. Each such transfer shall be based on estimates made by the Secretary of the Treasury of the amounts received in the Treasury. Proper adjustments shall be made in the amounts subsequently transferred, to the extent prior estimates (including estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1960) were in excess of or were less than the amounts required to be transferred. (3) The Secretary of the Treasury is directed to pay from time to time from the employment security administration account into the Treasury, as repayments to the account for refunding internal revenue collections, amounts equal to all refunds made after June 30, 1960, of amounts received as tax under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act (including interest on such refunds). Administrative Expenditures (c) (1) There are hereby authorized to be made available for expenditure out of the employment security administration account for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971, and for each fiscal year thereafter (A) such amounts (not in excess of the applicable limit provided by paragraph (3) and, with respect to clause (ii), not in excess of the limit provided by paragraph (4)) as the Congress may deem appropriate for the purpose of— (i) assisting the States in the administration of their unemployment compensation laws as provided in title III (including administration pursuant to agreements under any Federal unemployment compensation law), (ii) the establishment and maintenance of systems of public employment offices in accordance with the Act of June 6, 1933, as amended (29 U.S.C., secs. 49-49n), and (iii) carrying into effect section 2003 of title 38 of the United States Code; (B) such amounts (not in excess of the limit provided by paragraph (4) with respect to clause (iii)) as the Congress may deem appropriate for the necessary expenses of the Department of Labor for the performance of its functions under (i) this title and titles III and XII of this Act, (ii) the Federal Unemployment Tax Act, (iii) the provisions of the Act of June 6, 1933, as amended, (iv) chapter 41 (except section 2003) of title 38 of the United States Code, and |