1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Social Security Caregiver Credit Act of 2017 . 2. Findings and Sense of the Senate (a) Findings Congress finds that: (1) Caregiving is an essential element of family life and a vital service for children, the ill, the disabled, and the elderly. (2) The establishment of a caregiver credit would bolster the economic prospects of unpaid caregivers and would provide them with vital retirement security. (3) The 2015 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Federal Disability Insurance Trust Funds concluded that the combined Trust Funds will be able to pay scheduled benefits in full until 2034. (4) While there is no immediate crisis, policy options should be considered to extend OASDI solvency, including by eradicating the gender wage gap, increasing overall employment, or increasing the minimum wage. (b) Sense of the Senate It is the sense of Senate that the United States Congress must address the unfair exclusion of professional and hardworking home care providers who are not eligible to receive Social Security or Medicare because they provide paid care to a family member with a disability under programs operated at the State and local level for general health and welfare protection. 3. Deemed wages for caregivers of dependent relatives (a) In general Title II of the Social Security Act is amended by adding after section 234 ( 42 U.S.C. 434 ) the following new section: 235. Deemed wages for caregivers of dependent relatives (a) Definitions For purposes of this section— (1) (A) Subject to subparagraph (B), the term qualifying month means, in connection with an individual, any month— (i) beginning after the date which is 60 months prior to the date of the enactment of the Social Security Caregiver Credit Act of 2017 , and (ii) during which such individual was engaged for not less than 80 hours in providing care to a dependent relative without monetary compensation. (B) The term qualifying month does not include any month