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PUBLIC LAW 880-AUG. 1, 1956

[70 S T A T.

A n individual shall not be considered to be under a disability unless he furnishes such proof of the existence thereof as may be required. . " (3) The term 'waiting period' means, in the case of any application for disability insurance benefits, the earliest period of six consecutive calendar months— " (A) throughout which the individual who files such application has been under a disability, and " (B)(i) which begins not earlier than with the first day of the sixth month before the month in which such application is filed if such individual is insured for disability insurance benefits in such sixth month, or (ii) if he is not so insured in such month, which begins not earlier than with the first day of the first month after such sixth month in which he is so insured. Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this paragraph, no waiting period may begin for any individual before January 1, 1957; nor may any such period begin for any individual before the first day of the sixth month before the month in which he attains the age of fifty. "REDUCTION OF BENEFITS BASED ON DISABILITY

224. (a) If-;"(1) any individual is entitled to a disability insurance benefit for any month, or to a child's insurance benefit for the month in which he attained the age of eighteen or any subsequent month, and "(2) either (A) it is determined by any agency of the United States under any other law of the United States or under a system established by such agency that a periodic benefit is payable by such agency for such month to such individual, and the amount of or eligibility for such periodic benefit is based (in whole or in part) on a physical or mental impairment of such individual, or (B) it is determined that a periodic benefit is payable for such month to such individual under a workmen's compensation law or plan of the United States or of a State on account of a physical or mental impairment of such individual, then the benefit referred to in paragraph (1) shall be reduced (but not below zero) by an amount equal to such periodic benefit or benefits for such month. If such benefit referred to in paragraph (1) for any month is a child's insurance benefit and the periodic benefit or benefits referred to in paragraph (2) exceed such child's insurance benefit, the monthly benefit for such month to which an individual is entitled gj^"**' PP* 8^3, under subsection (b) or (g) of section 202 shall also be reduced (but not below zero) by the amount of such excess, but only if such individual (i) did not attain retirement age in such month or in any prior month, and (ii) would not be entitled to such monthly benefit if she did not have such child in her care (individually or jointly with her husband, in the case of a wife). "(b) If any periodic benefit referred to in subsection (a)(2) is determined to be payable on other than a monthly basis (excluding a benefit payable in a lump sum unless it is a commutation of, or a substitute for, periodic payments), reduction of the benefits under this section shall be made at such time or times and in such amounts as the Secretary finds will approximate, as nearly as practicable, the reduction prescribed in subsection (a). "(c) In order to assure that the purposes of this section will be carried out, the Secretary may, as a condition to certification for payment of any monthly insurance benefit payable to an individual under this title (if it appears to him that such individual may be eligible for a periodic benefit which would give rise to a reduction under this section), require adequate assurance of reimbursement to the Federal "SEC.

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