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STAT.]
PUBLIC LAW 86-778-SEPT. 13, 1960
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SURVIVORS o r INDIVIDUALS W H O DIED PRIOR TO 1940 AND OF CERTAIN OTHER INDIVIDUALS
SEC. 205. (a) Subsections (d)(1), (e)(1), (g)(1), and (h)(1) of section 202 of the Social Security Act are each amended by striking out "after 1939". (b) That part of section 202(f)(1) of such Act which precedes subparagraph (A) is amended by striking out "after August 1950". (c) The primary insurance amount (for purposes of title II of the Social Security Act) of any individual who died prior to 1940, and who had not less than six quarters of coverage (as defined in section 213 of such Act), shall be computed under section 215(a)(2) of such Act. (d) The preceding provisions of this section and the amendments made thereby shall apply only in the case of monthly benefits under title II of the Social Security Act for months after the month in which this Act is enacted, on the basis of applications filed in or after such month.
^2it l'. Itt ^2 USC 402.
42 USC seq.
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^2 USC 413.
CREDITING OF QUARTERS OF COVERAGE FOR YEARS BEFORE 1951
SEC. 206. (a) Section 213(a)(2) of the Social Security Act is amended by striking out all that precedes "$3,600 in the case of a calendar year after 1950 and before 1955" in clause (ii) of subparagraph (B) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "(2) The term 'quarter of coverage' means a quarter in which the individual has been paid $50 or more in wages (except wages for agricultural labor paid after 1954) or for which he has been credited (as determined under section 212) with $100 or more of self- ' "^^ use 412. employment income, except that— "(i) no quarter after the quarter in which such individual died shall be a quarter of coverage, and no quarter any part of which was included in a period of disability (other than the initial quarter and the last quarter of such period) shall be a quarter of coverage; "(ii) if the wages paid to any individual in any calendar year equal $3,000 in the case of a calendar year before 1951, or". (b)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply only in the case of monthly benefits under title II of the Social Security Act, and the lump-sum death payment under section 202 of such Act, based on the wages and self-employment income of an individual— (A) who becomes entitled to benefits under section 202(a) or 223 of such Act on the basis of an application filed in or after "^^ ^^^ '^^^' the month in which this Act is enacted; or (B) who is (or would, but for the provisions of section 215(f)(6) of the Social Security Act, be) entitled to a recom- 42 USC 4is. putation of his primary insurance amount under section 2 1 5 (f)(2)(A) of such Act on the basis of an application filed in or after the month in which this Act is enacted; or (C) who dies without becoming entitled to benefits under section 202(a) or 223 of the Social Security Act, and (unless he dies a currently insured individual but not a fully insured individual (as those terms are defined in section 214 of such Act)) without leaving any individual entitled (on the basis of his wages and self-employment income) to survivor's benefits or a lump-sum death payment under section 202 of such Act on the basis of an application filed prior to the month in which this Act is enacted; or (D) who dies in or after the month in which this Act is enacted and whose survivors are (or would, but for the provisions of sec-
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