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For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 20, 2007
Message to the Congress of the United States
Pursuant to section 233(e)(1) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the
Social Security Amendments of 1977 (42 U.S.C. 433(d)(1)), I transmit
herewith the Supplementary Agreement on Social Security between the United
States of America and the Kingdom of Sweden. The Supplementary Agreement
was signed in Stockholm on June 22, 2004, and is intended to modify certain
provisions of the original United States-Sweden Agreement, which was signed
May 27, 1985, and that entered into force January 1, 1987.
The United States-Sweden Agreement, as revised by the Supplementary
Agreement, remains similar in objective to the social security agreements
that are also in force with Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Luxembourg, the
Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
Such bilateral agreements provide for limited coordination between the
United States and foreign social security systems to eliminate dual social
security coverage and taxation, and to help prevent the loss of benefits
that can occur when workers divide their careers between two countries.
The United States-Sweden Agreement, as revised by the Supplementary
Agreement, contains all provisions mandated by section 233 and other
provisions that I deem appropriate to carry out the purposes of section
233, pursuant to section 233(c)(4).
I also transmit for the information of the Congress a report prepared by
the Social Security Administration explaining the key points of the
Supplementary Agreement with a paragraph-by-paragraph explanation of the
provisions of the Supplementary Agreement. Annexed to this report is the
report required by section 233(e)(1) of the Social Security Act on the
effect of the Supplementary Agreement on income and expenditures of the
U.S. Social Security program and the number of individuals affected by the
Supplementary Agreement and a composite text of the United States Sweden
Agreement showing the changes that will be made as a result of the
Supplementary Agreement.
The Department of State and the Social Security Administration have
recommended the Supplementary Agreement and related documents to me.
I commend to the Congress the Supplementary Agreement to the United
States-Sweden Social Security Agreement and related documents.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
March 20, 2007.
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