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 PUBLIC LAW 95-216—DEC. 20, 1977 exempt amount" and inserting in lieu thereof "the applicable exempt amount". (e) The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to taxable years ending after December 1977.

91 STAT. 1531

Effective date. 42 USC 403 note.

REPEAL o r EARNINGS LIMITATION EOR INDIVIDUALS AGE 7 0 AND OVER

SEC. 302. (a) Subsections (c)(1), (d)(1), (f)(1)(B), and (j) of section 203 of the Social Security Act are each amended by striking 42 USC 403. out "seventy-two" and inserting in lieu thereof "seventy". (b) Subsection (f)(3) of section 203 of such Act is amended by striking out "age 72" and inserting in lieu thereof "age 70". (c) Subsection (h)(1)(A) of section 203 of such Act is amended by striking out "the age of 72" and "age 72" and inserting in lieu thereof in each instance "age 70". (d) The heading of subsection (j) of section 203 of such Act is amended by striking out "Seventy-two" and inserting in lieu thereof "Seventy". (e) The amendments made by this section shall apply only with Effective date. 42 USC 403 note. respect to taxable years ending after December 31, 1981. E L I M I N A T I O N OF M O N T H L Y EARNINGS TEST

SEC. 303. (a) Clause (E) of the last sentence of section 203(f) (1^ of the Social Security Act (as amended by section 301(d) of this Act) is further amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof the following: ", if such month is in the taxable year in which occurs the first month that is both (i) a month for which the individual is entitled to benefits under subsection (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), or (h) of section 202 (without having been entitled for the preceding month to a benefit under any other of such subsections), and (ii) a month in which the individual did not engage in self-employment and did not render services for wages (determined as provided in paragraph (5)) of more than the applicable exempt amount as determined under paragraph (8)". (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply only with respect to monthly benefits payable for months after December 1977.

Ante, p. 1530.

42 USC 402.

Effective date, 42 USC 403 note.

PART B—COVERAGE STUDY OF UNIVERSAL COVERAGE

SEC. 311. (a) The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare is 42 USC 902 note, directed to undertake, as soon as possible after the date of the enactment of this Act, a thorough study with respect to the extent of the coverage under the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance programs and under the programs established by title X VIII of the Social Security Act. The study shall examine the feasibility and desirability 42 USC 1395. of covering, under such social security programs, Federal employees. State and local governmental employees, and employees of non-profit organizations who are not now covered. The study shall include alternative methods of accomplishing such coverage together with any appropriate alternatives to extending coverage to such employees. (b) With respect to each major alternative method or proposal included in the study described in subsection (a), such study shall also include an analysis of the changes which would be required in the programs established by the Social Security Act and in any other systems 42 USC 1305. or programs (such as retirement, survivorship, disability, and health

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