Social Security Legislative Bulletin

No: 109-5
Date: September 22, 2005

President Signs into Law H.R. 804, Excluding Certain Payments Made Under the National Flood Insurance Program

On September 20, 2005, President Bush signed into law H.R. 804, (Public Law 109-64).

The law includes the following provision relating to means-tested assistance programs' treatment of grants for reducing future flood damage. (This is the same provision described in Legislative Bulletin 109-4.)

Treatment of Certain Payments Under National Flood Insurance Program

• Amends the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 to specify that assistance provided under a program for flood mitigation activities with respect to a property would not be considered income or a resource of the owner of the property when determining eligibility for or benefit levels under any income assistance or resource-tested program (including Supplemental Security Income) that is funded in whole or in part by a Federal agency or by appropriated Federal funds.


• Effective upon enactment.