H.R. 8273 · 119th Congress
Catching Up Family Caregivers Act of 2026
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This bill allows qualified family caregivers to make catch-up contributions to a retirement account for up to five years.
What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in House · Apr 14, 2026
Catching Up Family Caregivers Act of 2026
This bill allows qualified family caregivers to make catch-up contributions to a retirement account for up to five years. A qualified family caregiver is an unemployed or severely underemployed adult who provides 500 hours or more of in-home care, monitoring, management, supervision, or treatment of an adult with special needs or a child during one tax year and has less than 500 hours of paid employment during the same tax year.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov
About this bill and sources
Official title: Catching Up Family Caregivers Act of 2026
Latest action (Apr 14, 2026): Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Policy area: Taxation · Origin: House · Introduced: Apr 14, 2026
Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)
No recorded floor vote found.