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 72 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC LAW 86-840-AUG. 28, 1968

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Minimum Survivors or Dependents Benefit (e) Section 202(m) of the Social Security Act is amended by striking out "$30" wherever it occurs and inserting in lieu thereof "the first figure in column IV of the table in section 215(a) ".

enstmuion.

Maximum Benefits (f) Subsection (a) of section 203 of the Social Security Act is amended to read as follows:

42 USC 403.

"Maximum Benefits "(a) Whenever the total of monthly benefits to which individuals are entitled under sections 202 and 223 for a month on the basis of PoJtf^pJI'^foioI the wages and self-employment income of an insured individual is 1024. greater than the amount appearing in column V of the table in secAnte, pp. tion 215(a) on the line on which appears in column IV such insured lOlS, 1016. 1013, individual's primary insurance amount, such total of benefits shall be Po»t, pp. 1020, 1025. reduced to such amount; except that— "(1) when any of such individuals so entitled would (but for the provisions of section 202(k)(2)(A)) be entitled to child's insurance benefits on the basis of the wages and self-employment income of one or more other insured individuals, such total of benefits shall not be reduced to less than the smaller of: (A) the sum of the maximum amounts of benefits payable on the basis of the wages and self-employment income of all such insured individuals, or (B) the last figure in column V of the table appearing in section 215(a), or "(2) when any of such individuals was entitled (without the application of section 202(j)(1) and section 223(b)) to monthly benefits under section 202 or section 223 for December 1958, and the primary insurance amount of the insured individual on the basis of whose wages and self-employment income such monthly benefits are payable is determined under the provisions of section 215 (a)(2), then such total benefits shall not be reduced to less than the larger of— " (A) the amount determined under this subsection without regard to this paragraph, or " (B) the amount determined under this subsection as in effect prior to the enactment of the Social Security Amendments of 1958 or the amount determined under section 102 (h) of the Social Security Amendments of 1954, as the case 68 Stat. 1072. 42 USC 403 note. may be, plus the excess of— "(i) the primary insurance amount of such insured individual in column IV of the table appearing in section 215(a), over Anta, p. 1016. "(ii) his primary insurance amount determined under section 215(c), or "(3) when any of such individuals is entitled (without the application of section 202(j)(1) and section 223(b)) to monthly benefits based on the wages and self-employment income of an insured individual with respect to whom a period of disability (as defined in section 216(i)) began prior to January 1959 and 42 USC 416. Poat, pp. 1020, continued until— 1021. " (A) he became entitled to benefits under section 202 or 223, or

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