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PUBLIC LAW 87-64-JUNE 30, 1961

[75 S T A T.

"(2)(A) If the first month for which an individual both is entitled to a wife's or husband's insurance benefit and has attained age 62 is a month for which such individual is also entitled to— " (i) an old-age insurance benefit (to which such individual was first entitled for a month before he attains age 65), or " (ii) a disability insurance benefit, then in lieu of any reduction under paragraph (1) (but subject to the succeeding paragraphs of this subsection) such wife's or husband's insurance benefit for each month shall be reduced as provided in subparagraph (B), (C), o r (D). " (B) For any month for which such individual is entitled to an old-age insurance benefit, such individual's wife's or husband's insurance benefit shall be reduced by the sum of— "(i) the amount by which such old-age insurance benefit is reduced under paragraph (1), and " (ii) the amount by which such wife's or hus:band's insurance benefit would be reduced under paragraph (1) if it were equal to the excess of such w'ife's or husband's insurance benefit (before reduction under this subsection) over such old-age insurance benefit (before reduction under this subsection). "(C) For any month for which such individual is entitled to a disability insurance benefit, such individual's wife's or husband's insurance benefit shall be reduced by the amount by which such benefit would be reduced under paragraph (1) if it were equal to the excess of such benefit (before reduction under this subsection) over such disability insurance benefit. " (D) For any month for which such individual is entitled neither to an old-age insurance benefit nor to a disability insurance benefit, such individual's wife's or husband's insurance benefit shall be reduced by the amount by which it would be reduced under paragraph (1). "(3) If— " (A) an individual is or was entitled to a benefit subject to reduction under this subsection, and " (B) such benefit is increased by reason of an increase in the primary insurance amount of the individual on whose wages and self-employment income such benefit is based, then the amount of the reduction of such benefit for each month shall be computed separately (under paragraph (1) or (2), whichever applies) for the portion of such benefit which constitutes such benefit before any increase described in subparagraph (B), and separately (under paragraph (1) or (2), whichever applies to the benefit being increased) for each such increase. For purposes of determining the amount of the reduction under paragraph (1) or (2) in any such increase, the reduction period and the adjusted reduction period shall be determined as if such increase were a separate benefit to which such individual was entitled for and after the first month for which such increase is effective. "(4)(A) No wife's insurance benefit shall be reduced under this subsection— "(i) for any month before the first month for which there is in effect a certificate filed by her with the Secretary, in accordance with regulations prescribed by him, in which she elects to receive wife's insurance benefits reduced as provided in this subsection, or "(ii) for any month in which she has in her care (individually or jointly with the person on whose wages and self-employment income her wife's insurance benefit is based) a child of such person entitled to child's insurance benefits.

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