Dear charlie625-ga;
Thank you for allowing me an opportunity to answer your interesting question.
The latest press releases on this issue are dated Tuesday June 29, 2004:
UNITED STATES AND MEXICO SIGN SOCIAL SECURITY AGREEMENT
http://www.ssa.gov/pressoffice/pr/USandMexico-pr.htm
UNITED STATES/MEXICO TOTALIZATION AGREEMENT
http://www.ssa.gov/pressoffice/factsheets/USandMexico.htm
FACT SHEET - MEXICO TOTALIZATION AGREEMENT (PDF)
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/media/pdf/ss/mexicofacts.pdf#search='Totalization%20Agreement%20With%20Mexico'
Here is a very complex, in depth study of the agreement done in September 2004:
SOCIAL SECURITY 'TOTALIZATION'
EXAMINING A LOPSIDED AGREEMENT WITH MEXICO
http://www.mnforsustain.org/cis_social_security_totalization_mexico_0904.htm
Here are some recent news articles on the subject. This first one, in
the ASHEVILLE CITIZEN TIMES, is dated just a few days ago, December
27, 2004:
BUSH'S `TOTALIZATION PLAN' HIDDEN FROM PUBLIC
http://www.citizen-times.com/cache/article/letters/72946.shtml
This in from AZCENTRAL.COM, dated just today, January 2, 2004 leads us
to believe that the government will make the totalization issue a
priority in the upcoming legislative session:
?One lawmaker, Rep. J.D. Hayworth, R-Ariz., said last week in an
interview that one of the first five bills he plans to introduce on
the opening day of the new session will be a resolution of disapproval
of a "totalization" agreement signed June 29.?
AZCENTRAL.COM
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0102Newcongress02.html
Officially, however, there are no more recent statements than the one
shown below, which indicates that nothing more is expected until
Autumn 2005:
?Commissioner Barnhart and Dr. Santiago Levy Algazi, Director General
of the Mexican Social Security Institute, signed a U.S.-Mexican Social
Security agreement at a ceremony held in Guadalajara, Mexico, on June
29, 2004. The agreement, which must be submitted to the U.S. Congress
and the Mexican Senate for review, is not expected to enter into force
before autumn 2005.?
STATUS OF TOTALIZATION AGREEMENTS
http://www.ssa.gov/international/status.html
As for the text of the agreement and proposals, you will find that
here in this document from the UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING
OFFICE:
SOCIAL SECURITY
?PROPOSED TOTALIZATION AGREEMENT WITH MEXICO PRESENTS UNIQUE CHALLENGES?
http://www.numbersusa.com/hottopic/GAOtotalizationMexico.pdf
(See primarily, Appendix II, beginning on page 25)
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