114 HR 6489 IH: Social Security Reform Act of 2016
U.S. House of Representatives
2016-12-08
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1.This Act may be cited as the Social Security Reform Act of 2016
. 2.The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
Title I—Modernizing Social Security for the 21st Century
Sec. 101. Modernize the benefit formula.
Sec. 102. Raise full retirement age.
Sec. 103. Use an accurate cost-of-living measure.
Sec. 104. Cap on nonworking spouse benefit.
Sec. 105. Cap on child’s benefit.
Sec. 106. Require child beneficiaries to attend school.
Title II—Rewarding work
Sec. 201. Strengthening Social Security for long career workers.
Sec. 202. Repeal of the Retirement Earnings Test.
Title III—Improving retirement security
Sec. 301. Phaseout of tax on Social Security benefits relating to the Social Security trust funds.
Sec. 302. Option to claim delayed retirement credit in partial lump sum.
Sec. 303. Strengthening Social Security for low-income seniors.
Sec. 304. End 7-year limitation for disabled surviving spouses.
Sec. 305. Benefits for disabled surviving spouses.
Sec. 306. Waive 2-year duration of divorce requirement.
<enum>I</enum><header>Modernizing Social Security for the 21st Century</header>
<section id="H371B8C121E0342778F7B05D6C77C64EF" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>101.</enum><header>Modernize the benefit formula</header>
<subsection id="H77C0396A7A9C4C1A866F5F1358D00D48"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Primary insurance amount computation</header><text>Section 215(a)(1) of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/415">42 U.S.C. 415(a)(1)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph commented="no" id="H2B8D8CE4C6FC421AB7C4DBE2FC857A76"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in subparagraph (B)(ii), by inserting <quote>and before 2023</quote> after <quote>after 1979</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H79E369F0DA0F4C2C962648E92D2D433C"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating subparagraph (D) as subparagraph (E); and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H80F052455A1A458DBA929CD8B19A0092"><enum>(3)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by inserting after subparagraph (C) the following new subparagraph:</text>
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<subparagraph id="H9729DD2F763047CBB9315C4D62CB5D19" indent="up2"><enum>(D)</enum>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H9932EC4416A04C5E91F6DC5C2C9833DE"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of an individual who initially becomes eligible for old-age or disability insurance benefits, or who dies (before becoming eligible for such benefits), in any calendar year after 2022, the primary insurance amount of the individual shall (except as provided in clause (vii)) be equal to the sum of the amounts determined under clause (ii) with respect to all of the individual’s benefit computation years (as defined in subsection (b)(2)(B)).</text>
</clause><clause commented="no" id="H65C21DB3FC764768A7529D346E468C81" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this subparagraph, the amount determined under this clause with respect to a benefit computation year of an individual shall be equal to the quotient derived by dividing—</text>
<subclause id="HD7F283C6B45842F59919601640FC12C3"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the product of the individual’s covered earnings ratio determined under clause (iii) for such benefit computation year and the sum of—</text>
<item id="H2AF1006950074C41A4239E428BF29F10"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">95 percent of the wages and self-employment income of such individual credited for such computation year (as adjusted under subsection (b)(3)) to the extent that such wages and self-employment income do not exceed the amount established for purposes of this item by clause (iv),</text>
</item><item id="HAE6EEC073BA940758621D281DECB3849"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">27.5 percent of such wages and self-employment income to the extent that such wages and self-employment income exceed the amount established for purposes of item (aa) but do not exceed the amount established for purposes of this item by clause (iv),</text>
</item><item id="H12E644894D974A2496D882D0019CCD67"><enum>(cc)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">5 percent of such wages and self-employment income to the extent that such wages and self-employment income exceed the amount established for purposes of item (bb) but do not exceed the amount established for purposes of this item by clause (iv), and</text>
</item><item commented="no" id="H52221A7AA167431EAF1D85CA4FFB7671"><enum>(dd)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">2 percent of such wages and self-employment income to the extent that such wages and self-employment income exceed the amount established for purposes of item (cc), by</text>
</item></subclause><subclause id="H3D83E7E9FD6A4BB3A268020864BC49C9"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the number of months in the individual’s benefit computation years (as defined in subsection (b)(2)(B)),</text>
</subclause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="clause" indent="subsection">rounded, if not a multiple of $0.10, to the next lower multiple of $0.10, and thereafter increased
as provided in subsection (i).</continuation-text></clause><clause commented="no" id="H50C7561393114AC1A3F68F1CBA630D07" indent="up1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>An individual’s covered earnings ratio for a benefit computation year is the ratio of—</text> <subclause commented="no" id="HC48549D18ED0460498B67CA625A50625"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the total (after adjustment under subsection (b)(3)) of his wages paid in and self-employment income credited to such benefit computation year (determined without regard to clause (v)), to</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" id="HB9356927E59A49CCAF5DDB5D5B28EA69"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the total (after adjustment under subsection (b)(3)) of his wages paid in and self-employment income credited to such benefit computation year (as determined under clause (v)).</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H4E3076565F834B3C984262CBAD099492" indent="up1"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>The amount established for purposes of items (aa), (bb), and (cc) of clause (ii)(I) shall be, respectively—</text>
<subclause id="H0C1452E21CA04EC6836066533C3AF06E"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">25 percent of the national average wage index (as defined in section 209(k)(1)) for the second calendar year preceding the calendar year for which the determination is made,</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H67BC8237147A45A9940EA52641A011A9"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">100 percent of the national average wage index (as so defined) for such calendar year, and</text> </subclause><subclause id="H3F45F0BEE8864A77A8202C42807B24E2"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">125 percent of the national average wage index (as so defined) for such calendar year.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H72B2DEA08C0E4CE6A8649F327F0AC53B" indent="up1"><enum>(v)</enum>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HD354DAF0240B4946B5FABBDCB69E3679"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of determining an individual’s primary insurance amount pursuant to clause (i), the total (after adjustment under subsection (b)(3)) of the individual’s wages paid in and self-employment income credited to a benefit computation year after 1977 shall be determined by treating all recorded noncovered earnings (as defined in subclause (II)(aa)) derived by the individual from noncovered service performed in such benefit computation year as <term>wages</term> (as defined in section 209 for purposes of this title), which shall be treated as included in the individual’s adjusted total covered earnings (as defined in subclause (II)(bb)) for such benefit computation year together with amounts consisting of <term>wages</term> (as so defined without regard to this subparagraph) paid in such benefit computation year and self-employment income (as defined in section 211(b)) credited to such benefit computation year.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H84FB1A25AE1541A5BC146861E1A61C94" indent="up1"><enum>(II)</enum><text>For purposes of this subparagraph—</text> <item id="H156A8415E0E84ED08512E241378AF2DB"><enum>(aa)</enum><text>the term <term>recorded noncovered earnings</term> means earnings derived from noncovered service (other than noncovered service as a member of a uniformed service (as defined in section 210(m))) for which satisfactory evidence is determined by the Commissioner to be available in the records of the Commissioner, and</text>
</item><item id="H81CEC265909C4439BC9D8C4CF08F1936"><enum>(bb)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <term>adjusted total covered earnings</term> means, in connection with an individual for a benefit computation year, the sum of the wages paid to the individual in such benefit computation year (as adjusted under subsection (b)(3)) plus the self-employment income derived by the individual credited to such benefit computation year (as adjusted under subsection (b)(3)).</text>
</item></subclause><subclause id="H51A653EB86A7459A87B02FC34E16CA4E" indent="up1"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The Commissioner of Social Security shall provide by regulation or other public guidance for methods for determining whether satisfactory evidence is available in the records of the Commissioner for earnings for noncovered service (other than noncovered service as a member of a uniformed service (as defined in section 210(m))) to be treated as recorded noncovered earnings. Such methods shall provide for reliance on earnings information which is provided to the Commissioner by employers and which, as determined by the Commissioner, constitute a reasonable basis for treatment of earnings for noncovered service as recorded noncovered earnings. In making determinations under this clause, the Commissioner shall also take into account any documentary or other evidence of earnings derived from noncovered service by an individual which is provided by the individual to the Commissioner and which the Commissioner considers appropriate as a reasonable basis for treatment of such earnings as recorded noncovered earnings.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H708E1118CE0842FE8B805B2C2C06275E" indent="up1"><enum>(vi)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of any individual whose primary insurance amount would be computed under this subparagraph who first becomes entitled after 1985 to a monthly periodic payment made by a foreign employer or foreign country that is based in whole or in part upon noncovered service, the primary insurance amount of such individual shall be determined under section 215 as such section was in effect on the day before the enactment of the <short-title>Social Security Reform Act of 2016</short-title> for months beginning with the first month of the individual’s initial entitlement to such monthly periodic payment.</text>
</clause><clause id="H27FDD56156E74CFFB5B58FE47A217BBB" indent="up1"><enum>(vii)</enum><text>In the case of an individual who initially becomes eligible for old-age or disability insurance benefits, or who dies (before becoming eligible for such benefits), in any year during the 9-year period beginning with 2023, the primary insurance amount of the individual shall be equal to the sum of—</text>
<subclause id="H212ABA22DCF14CFFB52FF8686E091C5C"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the applicable percentage (specified for such year in the table set forth in clause (viii)) of the individual’s primary insurance amount, as determined under this subparagraph (other than this clause and clause (viii)) with the application of clauses (i) through (vi) of this subparagraph, plus</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H8E50036370D54B9BBF698FD5530B77C8"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">a percentage, equal to the excess of 100 percent over the applicable percentage, of the individual’s primary insurance amount, as determined under this paragraph (other than this clause and clause (viii)) with the application of the preceding subparagraphs of this paragraph (as if such preceding subparagraphs applied for the individual and clauses (i) through (vi) of this subparagraph did not apply),</text>
</subclause><continuation-text continuation-text-level="clause">rounded to the nearest $1, except that any amount so established which is a multiple of $0.50 but
not of $1, shall be rounded to the next highest $1.</continuation-text></clause><clause id="H959356C92291490DB9E7940734D223B9" indent="up1"><enum>(viii)</enum><text>The table set forth in this clause is as follows:</text> <table align-to-level="section" blank-lines-before="1" colsep="0" frame="none" line-rules="no-gen" rowsep="0" rule-weights="0.0.0.0.0.0" table-template-name="Flush/hang, 1 text, 1 num, bold hds" table-type="Leaderwork"><tgroup cols="2" rowsep="0"><colspec coldef="txt" colname="column1" colwidth="182pts" min-data-value="55"></colspec><colspec align="justify" coldef="fig" colname="column2" colwidth="210pts" min-data-value="5"></colspec><thead><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" morerows="0" namest="column1" rowsep="0"></entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" morerows="0" namest="column2" rowsep="0"><bold>The applicable</bold></entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" morerows="0" namest="column1" rowsep="0"><bold>For the year:</bold></entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" morerows="0" namest="column2" rowsep="0"><bold>percentage is:</bold></entry></row></thead><tbody><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2023</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">10</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2024</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">20</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2025</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">30</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2026</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">40</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2027</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">50</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2028</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">60</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2029</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">70</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2030</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">80</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2031</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">90.</entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H07940DCCF29C44399A41E835E8FA2722"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Repeal of the windfall elimination provision</header> <paragraph id="H20BFD6E2E7AA46C59506A5A52BA6032B"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 215(a) of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/415">42 U.S.C. 415(a)</external-xref>) is amended by striking paragraph (7).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H306A2B19879F403B8336B01658732FAF"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header><text>Section 215 of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/415">42 U.S.C. 415</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="HEDB4BB5040524D62B67DA9784A84E9D1"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subsection (d), by striking paragraph (3); and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HAB4154DA499B451AA78B4E6ABE264730"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (f), by striking paragraph (9).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H7A780E3229B7489CAD11C1F05DA8EB48"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Computation of primary insurance amount for current beneficiaries</header><text>Section 215(a) of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/415">42 U.S.C. 415(a)</external-xref>) (as amended by subsections (a) and (b)) is further amended by inserting after paragraph (6) the following:</text>
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<paragraph id="H5905DA47F0A5492A99777C2534EDA1B3"><enum>(7)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of any individual who initially becomes eligible for an old-age or disability insurance benefit before January 1, 2023, any computation or recomputation of the primary insurance amount of such individual shall be made under section 215 as such section was in effect on the day before the enactment of section 101 of the <short-title>Social Security Reform Act of 2016</short-title>.</text>
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</subsection><subsection commented="no" id="HB4500929A2044481AA94CF06F6B614EC"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 209(k)(1) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/409">42 U.S.C. 409(k)(1)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>215(a)(1)(D)</quote> and inserting <quote>215(a)(1)(D)(iii), 215(a)(1)(E)</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HD8111524960A4283B9154E5C7A33C111"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to monthly insurance benefits payable on or after January 1, 2023.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H631C8B1B42FF49F9ABEBD98BEAC79CE9"><enum>102.</enum><header>Raise full retirement age</header>
<subsection id="HBB14A45ED9EC4C03BCD5DA963645CA07"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 216(l) of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/416">42 U.S.C. 416(l)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H0E312FE8B1F64FF68B30DB7953515DEC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H0B190C848E684CF4B583A5E21EFA953B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (D), by striking <quote>and</quote> at the end;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H3A06B6CDF6B34D8E84EAD4471E84BA39"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (E), by striking <quote>67 years of age.</quote> and inserting <quote>and before January 1, 2023, 67 years of age;</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H56B9DB58E905415D88DDEEDCC04BDE91"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7AE71AC95FA945F48457E8143858D52D" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H32F704EBAA9E4C9F8D6C0B6DFD56EC88" indent="up1"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">with respect to an individual who attains early retirement age after December 31, 2022, and before January 1, 2030, 67 years of age plus the number of months in the age increase factor (as determined under paragraph (3)) for the calendar year in which such individual attains early retirement age; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD4373ED58661458BA49023012254B548" indent="up1"><enum>(G)</enum><text>with respect to an individual who attains early retirement age after December 31, 2029, 69 years of age.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HEE9213F6DA3B4BA5A53DD51B35B5CCB4"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H933D3E510D2E457EBECD47627B596433" style="OLC"> <subparagraph id="H07907B015509400D82C90F5A3656D148" indent="up1"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to an individual who attains early retirement age in the 7-year period consisting of the calendar years 2023 through 2029, the age increase factor shall be equal to three-twelfths of the number of months in the period beginning with January 2023 and ending with December of the year in which the individual attains early retirement age.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HB1567E076318423D987025714FFC9ED4"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Extension of maximum age for entitlement to delayed retirement credit</header><text>Section 202(w)(2)(A) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(w)(2)(A)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H039230E4712C4C3089DE73624E7A6167"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>prior to the month in which such individual attained age 70, and</quote> and inserting <quote>prior to the later of—</quote>; and</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAAA0DB600B0347DF98F087A845F04B86"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8BB57C65827A4819A9B01693083BBE48" style="traditional"> <clause id="H79EA464714CA48F9938B06A28C6941A8" indent="up1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the month in which such individual would attain age 70, or</text>
</clause><clause id="H6477BC0600484778943F7C2926DC5B62" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the month which ends 36 months after the end of the month in which such individual attained retirement age (as defined in section 216(l)), and</text></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HDBEFBC3FE7B943FE9CD8E49DFE66FF16" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>103.</enum><header>Use an accurate cost-of-living measure</header>
<subsection id="H601983B6666A4F65AFC755CAA66C8071"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 215(i)(1) of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/415">42 U.S.C. 415(i)(1)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subparagraph id="HBA56AE77D336414AA1AEB6718AC49504" indent="up1"><enum>(H)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the term <quote>Consumer Price Index</quote> means the Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (C–CPI–U, as published in its initial version by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor).</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HDD7EEE81CC64414AA2BFCD49A68454AA"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Application to pre-1979 law</header>
<paragraph id="HE49EDF7D9FAE4B0F928C4B11A1340C31"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 215(i)(1) of the Social Security Act as in effect in December 1978, and as applied in certain cases under the provisions of such Act as in effect after December 1978, is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subparagraph id="HD8389B0CABCC487C82CAA853F5F06AFA" indent="up1"><enum>(D)</enum><text>the term <quote>Consumer Price Index</quote> means the Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (C–CPI–U, as published in its initial version by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor).</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HBF2E26ADF2034A0FB39E05C840FD5FB8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming change</header><text>Section 215(i)(4) of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/415">42 U.S.C. 415(i)(4)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>and by section 103 of the <short-title>Social Security Reform Act of 2016</short-title></quote> after <quote>1986</quote>.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H9F14B753699146A2955C5E0AAB8A737A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>No effect on adjustments under other laws</header><text>Section 215(i) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/415">42 U.S.C. 415(i)</external-xref>), as amended by subsection (a), is further amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<paragraph commented="no" id="HFFEBF7BF459B41CD975A9CC9B7D5F5F9"><enum>(6)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any provision of law (other than in this title) which provides for adjustment of an amount based on a change in benefit amounts resulting from a determination made under this subsection shall be applied and administered without regard to the amendments made by section 103 of the <short-title>Social Security Reform Act of 2016</short-title>.</text></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H73C651877EDF497A987FCD195A07C42F"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Limit on COLA</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 215(i)(2)(A) of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/415">42 U.S.C. 415(i)(2)(A)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<clause id="H40FC7162D4764DCA94ABEEEBB6404C8B" indent="up3"><enum>(iv)</enum>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H9E00FDF448D548FE9CF0A3CB77BF43BC"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In any case in which (but for this clause) an increase would take effect with December of any calendar year after 2017 pursuant to clause (ii)(I) in the benefit amount to which an individual is entitled, any increase pursuant to clause (ii)(II) in an individual’s primary insurance amount, or any increase pursuant to clause (ii)(III) in the permitted amount of total monthly benefits based on an individual’s primary insurance amount, the applicable increase percentage with respect to the applicable cost-of-living computation quarter shall be deemed to be zero in the case of such individual if the modified adjusted gross income of such individual for such calendar year, as would be determined for purposes of section 1839(i), equals or exceeds the applicable base amount.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HE1D52C6A87F94B49BC9D5AF2ABECBD95" indent="up1"><enum>(II)</enum><text>For purposes of subclause (I), the applicable base amount is the threshold amount applicable for such calendar year under subparagraph (A) of section 1839(i)(2) (or, in the case of an individual filing a joint return, the threshold amount so applicable under subparagraph (B) of such section). Such threshold amount shall be subject to adjustments under section 1839(i)(5).</text></subclause></clause><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="HFD115D2D37384DCEB9A7CEF4FF818DFB"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Disclosure of return information</header>
<paragraph id="HCDEA40171CAD4672A1B574D3B867A898"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The first sentence of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/6103">section 6103(l)(20)(A)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by inserting <quote>, or whose increase in primary insurance amount may be limited under section 215(i)(2)(A)(iv) of such Act</quote> before the period at the end.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H1E4B4FC70E30408BAA5EA47CCC8720CB"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header>
<subparagraph id="H3BF5426F532140C0B854ABA8D05F6ADD"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 6103(l)(20)(A)(vii) of such Code is amended by inserting <quote>that the increase in the taxpayer’s primary insurance amount under section 215(i)(2)(A)(iv) may be limited, or</quote> after <quote>section 1839 of the Social Security Act</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB1D485B04AB3415485F92E372DB24C9B"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 6103(l)(20)(B)(i) of such Code is amended—</text> <clause id="H39F8EB600A6B4721BAD4B536D41F3ED2"><enum>(i)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>, any limitation in an increase in primary insurance amount under such section 215(i)(2)(A)(iv),</quote> after <quote>under such section 1860D–13(a)(7)</quote>, and</text>
</clause><clause id="H4BC56CFC94674A8A8B8CB8C53956C450"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>or any such limitation</quote> after <quote>adjustment or increase</quote>.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H89357B249DD74584B0FE569CCBFB00A7"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Effective date</header> <paragraph id="HBF0ADE76222841D49D9DCF1AD4A85065"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as provided in paragraph (2), the amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to adjustments effective with or after December 2018.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HB396EF22C295436DBD42E2E6A0BF579E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Subsection <enum-in-header>(e)</enum-in-header></header><text>The amendments made by subsection (e) shall apply to requests for information after the date of the enactment of this Act.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCF5BD56657B84E499AABA325F62ACB16" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>104.</enum><header>Cap on nonworking spouse benefit</header>
<subsection id="H90933EA2229A4D038CEA2AD6B4B3F7FB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Wife’s insurance benefits</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 202(b) of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(b)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph id="H3EC2C8DC5CCA4CF49C616DB674BBB28E"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="HC0974F5DBEC54BE3B7D8B046410AA8A4"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (D), by striking <quote>such individual,</quote> and inserting <quote>such individual or, if less, than the amount determined under paragraph (2)(B),</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD8C46018EC8342009218B6C431ACE2DF"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (J), by striking <quote>one-half of the primary insurance amount of such individual</quote> and inserting</text>
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<text>the lesser of—</text><clause id="HF108CF38B5FF4D84BB0A632EA176EB29" indent="up1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>one-half of the primary insurance amount of such individual, or</text> </clause><clause id="H683E6B89A2214A05A08E4DE26CC6F400" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the amount determined under paragraph (2)(B), or</text></clause><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC35AAA47A74D46B39941AB4C9BED6275"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)—</text> <subparagraph id="H681B96438CB84E93B535BF54660650EF"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(A)</quote> after <quote>(2)</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6B71A8706C7F4CF7BFBFA1EBED1EC83B"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>subparagraphs (B) and (C) and</quote> after <quote>Except as provided in</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H34168CE36EC349DA9128F95F0B5791EA"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subparagraphs:</text>
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<subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC87C3A6601A6457699C6F3388AE74257" indent="up2"><enum>(B)</enum>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H92792DD4798741DC8D68FA2E2DA2CE28"><enum>(i)</enum><text>Effective with respect to a wife or divorced wife of an individual entitled to old-age or disability insurance benefits who initially becomes eligible for such benefits after 2022, such wife’s insurance benefit for each month shall not exceed—</text>
<subclause id="H9BBAF8236BEF4A60A44FDC458FB5E73F" indent="up1"><enum>(I)</enum><text>if the month of such initial eligibility is before 2032, the transitional amount determined under subparagraph (C), or</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HB6B7A238569143DDBB583618BCA70802" indent="up1"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if the month of such initial eligibility is after 2031, 50 percent of the primary insurance amount determined for an individual who is an average wage index worker with respect to such month.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H59C3AD7E5AFD4B8DBE9E02D3BB084840" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of clause (i), the term <quote>average wage index worker</quote> with respect to a month means an individual who initially becomes eligible for old-age insurance benefits during such month with average indexed monthly earnings equal to <fraction>1/12</fraction> of the national average wage index (as defined in section 209(k)(1)) for the second calendar year preceding such month.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB7723E5156974E9B8BB5DC6F4EAB54C1" indent="up2"><enum>(C)</enum>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H17FC54A525B746BC8987B195AC8E7AD3"><enum>(i)</enum><text>The transitional amount determined under this subparagraph is the excess of—</text> <subclause id="H2CCE899858634D33984307756DB957F7" indent="up1"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the amount of the benefit determined under subparagraph (A), over</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H4E6721A1EEF84A04B32CBEF7DF3CEDA6" indent="up1"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the reduction amount determined under clause (ii) (if any).</text> </subclause></clause><clause id="HD7B849A8CEE243A2B9A8ECA24AF03F8B" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>The reduction amount determined under this clause is the applicable percentage specified in clause (iii) of the excess (if any) of—</text>
<subclause id="H576F944EF2B54A299B7DFCE4921ACAB6"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the amount of the benefit determined under subparagraph (A), over</text> </subclause><subclause id="H4FAE2F6984D5425A8E3334DC6A48DE68"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">50 percent of the primary insurance amount determined for an individual who is an average wage index worker (as defined in subparagraph (B)(ii)) with respect to the month in which the individual described in subparagraph (B)(i) initially becomes eligible for old-age or disability insurance benefits.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H0478D06495694C5EAA78E7C0738C9A68" indent="up1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of clause (ii), the applicable percentage specified in this clause is the percentage specified in connection with the year in which the individual described in subparagraph (B)(i) initially becomes eligible for old-age or disability insurance benefits, as set forth in the following table:</text>
<table align-to-level="section" blank-lines-before="1" colsep="0" frame="none" line-rules="no-gen" rowsep="0" rule-weights="0.0.0.0.0.0" table-template-name="Flush/hang, 1 text, 1 num, bold hds" table-type="Leaderwork"><tgroup cols="2" rowsep="0"><colspec coldef="txt" colname="column1" colwidth="297pts" min-data-value="55"></colspec><colspec align="justify" coldef="fig" colname="column2" colwidth="207.00pt" min-data-value="5"></colspec><thead><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" morerows="0" namest="column1" rowsep="0"><bold>If the year in which the individual first becomes eligible is:</bold></entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" morerows="0" namest="column2" rowsep="0"><bold>The applicable <linebreak></linebreak>percentage is:</bold></entry></row></thead><tbody><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2023</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">10</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2024</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">20</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2025</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">30</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2026</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">40</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2027</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">50</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2028</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">60</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2029</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">70</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2030</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">80</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2031</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">90.</entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCA8BFED025CC43ECAB1A8B0748C36C07" indent="up2"><enum>(D)</enum><text>For purposes of this paragraph, an individual shall be deemed eligible for a benefit for a month if, upon filing application therefor in such month, she would be entitled to such benefit for such month.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H93D6BED6BED64796A3F4BB74FCA7959A"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Husband’s insurance benefits</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 202(c) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(c)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HF57306FF2DAC433BB5BC573797DAC9FC"><enum>(1)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)—</text>
<subparagraph id="H3CE31D9AF9284F3AB0B62499AFE43F14"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in subparagraph (D), by striking <quote>such individual,</quote> and inserting <quote>such individual or, if less, than the amount determined under paragraph (2)(B),</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5D3DECB30A8A4A1BA84B1DBAFD3F63A8"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subparagraph (J), by striking <quote>one-half of the primary insurance amount of such individual</quote> and inserting</text>
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<text>the lesser of—</text><clause id="HA1678F3D188749C7A64EEBA046A60B8D" indent="up1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>one-half of the primary insurance amount of such individual, or</text> </clause><clause id="H9ACBB33F43D545FCB0BDB2FE9E848AD5" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the amount determined under paragraph (2)(B), or</text></clause><after-quoted-block>; and</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H7854F9CBFBA6465A998D70D29234B27A"><enum>(2)</enum><text>in paragraph (2)—</text> <subparagraph id="H9E9300B72AE74EB0B7CE70E57640F929"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>(A)</quote> after <quote>(2)</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H65DEF7ECED5E4C0C85CFE286528D1A98"><enum>(B)</enum><text>by inserting <quote>subparagraphs (B) and (C) and</quote> after <quote>Except as provided in</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H13742D7107104B3A91F60F4EB581CD64"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following new subparagraphs:</text>
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<subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HBE03CDC6E13844DE854459B12748908B" indent="up2"><enum>(B)</enum>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H950A5900A26A4CC19E97A0562865C1EE"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Effective with respect to a husband or divorced husband of an individual entitled to old-age or disability insurance benefits who initially becomes eligible for such benefits after 2022, such husband’s insurance benefit for each month shall not exceed—</text>
<subclause id="H818F37D692FD48AE9A5A9183DAE76731" indent="up1"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if the month of such initial eligibility is before 2032, the transitional amount determined under subparagraph (C), or</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H14C095C23C1E44469AA25FA3BC6AECC4" indent="up1"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if the month of such initial eligibility is after 2031, 50 percent of the primary insurance amount determined for an individual who is an average wage index worker with respect to such month.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H677C7CA085C740EB8C6FA92B8BE76BFC" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of clause (i), the term <quote>average wage index worker</quote> with respect to a month means an individual who initially becomes eligible for old-age insurance benefits during such month with average indexed monthly earnings equal to <fraction>1/12</fraction> of the national average wage index (as defined in section 209(k)(1)) for the second calendar year preceding such month.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0F74B348B36C46F785830A343C7B2539" indent="up2"><enum>(C)</enum>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H86E1CF1C30AC4A72B1EECFA73FC334DE"><enum>(i)</enum><text>The transitional amount determined under this subparagraph is the excess of—</text> <subclause id="HD69D363C185442E79C2F81F911A5FB2E" indent="up1"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the amount of the benefit determined under subparagraph (A), over</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HAE87101EE3E64C60A986CB9F1EF1B81E" indent="up1"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the reduction amount determined under clause (ii) (if any).</text> </subclause></clause><clause id="H6D606ADE86384C63836405A7D0822846" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>The reduction amount determined under this clause is the applicable percentage specified in clause (iii) of the excess (if any) of—</text>
<subclause id="H3F4971A9AB1D4ECB8BB48E5D1EDA7668"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the amount of the benefit determined under subparagraph (A), over</text> </subclause><subclause id="H4BB3822E02E941489886112F746402A4"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">50 percent of the primary insurance amount determined for an individual who is an average wage index worker (as defined in subparagraph (B)(ii)) with respect to the month in which the individual described in subparagraph (B)(i) initially becomes eligible for old-age or disability insurance benefits.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H016ED3CD77BC47769FB5A846DFC53B15" indent="up1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of clause (ii), the applicable percentage specified in this clause is the percentage specified in connection with the year in which the individual described in subparagraph (B)(i) initially becomes eligible for old-age or disability insurance benefits, as set forth in the following table:</text>
<table align-to-level="section" blank-lines-before="1" colsep="0" frame="none" line-rules="no-gen" rowsep="0" rule-weights="0.0.0.0.0.0" table-template-name="Flush/hang, 1 text, 1 num, bold hds" table-type="Leaderwork"><tgroup cols="2" rowsep="0"><colspec coldef="txt" colname="column1" colwidth="297pts" min-data-value="55"></colspec><colspec align="justify" coldef="fig" colname="column2" colwidth="207.00pt" min-data-value="5"></colspec><thead><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" morerows="0" namest="column1" rowsep="0"><bold>If the year in which the individual first becomes eligible is:</bold></entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" morerows="0" namest="column2" rowsep="0"><bold>The applicable <linebreak></linebreak>percentage is:</bold></entry></row></thead><tbody><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2023</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">10</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2024</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">20</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2025</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">30</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2026</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">40</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2027</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">50</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2028</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">60</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2029</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">70</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2030</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">80</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2031</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">90.</entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2DA899259C7F427E825B9D8AE7ADA59B" indent="up2"><enum>(D)</enum><text>For purposes of this paragraph, an individual shall be deemed eligible for a benefit for a month if, upon filing application therefor in such month, he would be entitled to such benefit for such month.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HDDC5278FF82545DA9C83D0D243B59078"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 209(k)(1) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/409">42 U.S.C. 409(k)(1)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>202(b)(2)(B), 202(c)(2)(B),</quote> before <quote>203(f)(8)(B)(ii)</quote>.</text> </subsection></section><section id="H4992955271B54758B41FC2721417DC33" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>105.</enum><header>Cap on child’s benefit</header> <subsection id="H1EEC7FBBE0254928868A5D96CC52E1C7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Child’s insurance benefits</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 202(d)(2) of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(d)(2)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<paragraph id="H9CC6524DF25D4F3CA963FF127DD3601F"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by striking <quote>Such</quote> in the first sentence and inserting <quote>(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), such</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HDBB2AF5DA2D74A35B3AE854CD128DB2D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by adding at the end the following:</text>
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<subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAC6962E1F4984AB5A17CD8EDBDF7A474" indent="up2"><enum>(B)</enum>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HFB78B65AE64C4DCE87C03E7CE413AD36"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Such child's insurance benefit for each month, with respect to a child of an individual entitled to old-age or disability insurance benefits who initially becomes eligible for such old-age or disability insurance benefits after 2022 and has not died prior to the end of such month, shall not exceed—</text>
<subclause id="H574989E457184179913582FF02D66B9C" indent="up1"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if the month of such initial eligibility is before 2032, the transitional amount determined under subparagraph (C), or</text>
</subclause><subclause id="HF5F4088FB48B43BCB229586D60247987" indent="up1"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">if the month of such initial eligibility is after 2031, 50 percent of the primary insurance amount determined for an individual who is an average wage index worker with respect to such month.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H73C8B1BF73DA463690C85C0C5EE9E57B" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of clause (i), the term <quote>average wage index worker</quote> with respect to a month means an individual who initially becomes eligible for old-age insurance benefits during such month with average indexed monthly earnings equal to <fraction>1/12</fraction> of the national average wage index (as defined in section 209(k)(1)) for the second calendar year preceding such month.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5AAE1AA46270488EA4C763F79EBB4DF6" indent="up2"><enum>(C)</enum>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H49508FFC28D0412CB09D8980587D7A73"><enum>(i)</enum><text>The transitional amount determined under this subparagraph is the excess of—</text> <subclause id="H97CA619CBFAF4362ADA5546D5F505882" indent="up1"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the amount of the benefit determined under subparagraph (A), over</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H6BCE81D2419144DA99BA9722667FAAA4" indent="up1"><enum>(II)</enum><text>the reduction amount determined under clause (ii) (if any).</text> </subclause></clause><clause id="H4CB2930E846349D994E28BFB2DE36360" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>The reduction amount determined under this clause is the applicable reduction percentage specified in clause (iii) of the excess (if any) of—</text>
<subclause id="H4C3C001207D7486B87203830E78A8AF0"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the amount of the benefit determined under subparagraph (A), over</text> </subclause><subclause id="HF2AB3987615B4A2BB5680E90692593BB"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">50 percent of the primary insurance amount as determined for an individual who is an average wage index worker (as defined in subparagraph (B)(ii)) with respect to the month in which the individual described in subparagraph (B)(i) initially becomes eligible for old-age or disability insurance benefits.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H6D07B5CED0F742FFBEA447D349E6C846" indent="up1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of clause (ii), the applicable reduction percentage specified in this clause is the percentage specified in connection with the year in which the individual described in subparagraph (B)(i) becomes entitled to old-age or disability insurance benefits, as set forth in the following table:</text>
<table align-to-level="section" blank-lines-before="1" colsep="0" frame="none" line-rules="no-gen" rowsep="0" rule-weights="0.0.0.0.0.0" table-template-name="Flush/hang, 1 text, 1 num, bold hds" table-type="Leaderwork"><tgroup cols="2" rowsep="0"><colspec coldef="txt" colname="column1" colwidth="297pts" min-data-value="55"></colspec><colspec align="justify" coldef="fig" colname="column2" colwidth="207.00pt" min-data-value="5"></colspec><thead><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" morerows="0" namest="column1" rowsep="0"><bold>If the year in which the individual first becomes eligible is:</bold></entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" morerows="0" namest="column2" rowsep="0"><bold>The applicable reduction<linebreak></linebreak>percentage is:</bold></entry></row></thead><tbody><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2023</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">10</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2024</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">20</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2025</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">30</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2026</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">40</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2027</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">50</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2028</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">60</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2029</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">70</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2030</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">80</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2031</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">90.</entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HC1A4B877A6A846F5AD27B17AC5BC7DB0" indent="up2"><enum>(D)</enum><text>For purposes of this paragraph, an individual shall be deemed eligible for a benefit for a month if, upon filing application therefor in such month, he would be entitled to such benefit for such month.</text></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HC1F8297D3ABB498E98E7D73BF0B0C597"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 209(k)(1) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/409">42 U.S.C. 409(k)(1)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>202(d)(2)(B),</quote> before <quote>203(f)(8)(B)(ii)</quote>.</text> </subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2DD8EEC947CB46EDA1360F8ED95F9283" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>106.</enum><header>Require child beneficiaries to attend school</header> <subsection id="H48932F26A88E49828FB4CEE076899A82"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Child’s benefits under title II</header> <paragraph id="H64A6A24A0249470E9A91B0B792A25213"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 202(d)(1)(B)(i) of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(d)(1)(B)(i)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>age of 18</quote> and inserting <quote>applicable full-time attendance age</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H8D910BBF937E43A5AD7FA0A674AC756E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Applicable full-time attendance age</header><text>Section 202(d)(7) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(d)(7)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H2E38396AA06C47BBA5B6C7C7F07D02D8" style="traditional"> <subparagraph id="H758D59D9371A41BA97DD7CEAF82101F9" indent="up1"><enum>(E)</enum><text>The <quote>applicable full-time attendance age</quote> is—</text>
<clause id="HAD2FAC302B544F4A8F6D9588330B0AD1"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the age of 18 (in the case of an individual who becomes entitled to child’s insurance benefits before 2019), and</text>
</clause><clause id="H0BC859442B3E446EA00D2BF25940725A"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the age of 15 (in the case of an individual who becomes entitled to child’s insurance benefits in or after 2019).</text></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H9666BCA87E454C659127A3FD97DC82B4"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header>
<subparagraph id="H645541A6AC2A4C5E894F9B1801D64A79"><enum>(A)</enum><header>Termination</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 202(d)(1) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(d)(1)</external-xref>) is amended in each of subparagraphs (E), (F), and (G) by striking <quote>age of 18</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>applicable full-time attendance age</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H03126B00F352423DA84FF634D658D3A7"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Reentitlement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 202(d)(6) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(d)(6)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>age of 18</quote> and inserting <quote>applicable full-time attendance age</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection></section><enum>II</enum><header>Rewarding work</header> <section id="H43E10D99D1B3413582D3CF2398BC8733"><enum>201.</enum><header>Strengthening Social Security for long career workers</header> <subsection display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3531F1B060484E019C2099B4EA429F01"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 215(a)(1) of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/415">42 U.S.C. 415(a)(1)</external-xref>) (as amended by section 101) is further amended—</text>
<paragraph id="HDE96C22C173E4121AC9D1944BE5657D5"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating subparagraph (E) (as redesignated by section 101) as subparagraph (F); and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HC78125CE4B494C0DBC3CA6CBC2647783"><enum>(2)</enum><text>by inserting after subparagraph (D) (as redesignated by section 101) the following new subparagraph:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H657965C842E344AA86A9FB832BAC6E1C" style="traditional">
<subparagraph id="HE88B122A7E24435E9C59B4FA8587054D" indent="up2"><enum>(E)</enum>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H060A222BAF8245A2A7EAE5BAEF621B09"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of an individual who initially becomes eligible for old-age or disability insurance benefits, or who dies (before becoming eligible for such benefits), in any calendar year after 2022, the primary insurance amount computed under subparagraph (A) with respect to the individual shall not be less than the greater of—</text>
<subclause id="H3A2CBFB674C7422EAF634DA887E4603D" indent="up1"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the minimum amount computed under subparagraph (C), or</text> </subclause><subclause id="H138BB6554EE746228CF23009769B40C3" indent="up1"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">except as provided in clause (iv), in the case of an individual who has at least 10 years of work (as defined in clause (iii)), the minimum amount determined under clause (ii).</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H681E51A30DCB4B06A6ED612068424495" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H544FEBF6C6554F7EBDF3275A709A336C"><enum>(I)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The minimum amount determined under this clause is the dollar amount equal to <fraction>1/12</fraction> of the applicable percentage of the national average wage index (as defined in section 209(k)(1)) for the second year prior to the year for which the amount is computed.</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H099034A71B514B86A76491B94EF83D3C" indent="up1"><enum>(II)</enum><text>For purposes of subclause (I), the applicable percentage is the percentage specified in connection with the number of years of work, as set forth in the following table:</text>
<table align-to-level="section" blank-lines-before="1" colsep="0" frame="none" line-rules="no-gen" rowsep="0" rule-weights="0.0.0.0.0.0" table-template-name="Flush/hang, 1 text, 1 num, bold hds" table-type="Leaderwork"><tgroup cols="2" rowsep="0"><colspec coldef="txt" colname="column1" colwidth="182pts" min-data-value="55"></colspec><colspec align="justify" coldef="fig" colname="column2" colwidth="210pts" min-data-value="5"></colspec><thead><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" morerows="0" namest="column1" rowsep="0"><bold>If the number of years</bold></entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" morerows="0" namest="column2" rowsep="0"><bold>The applicable</bold></entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" morerows="0" namest="column1" rowsep="0"> <bold>of work is:</bold></entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" morerows="0" namest="column2" rowsep="0"><bold>percentage is:</bold></entry></row></thead><tbody><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">11</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">3</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">12</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">6</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">13</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">9</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">14</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">12</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">15</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">15</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">16</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">16</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">17</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">17</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">18</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">18</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">19</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">19</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">20</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">25</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">21</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">25<fraction>2/3</fraction></entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">22</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">26<fraction>1/3</fraction></entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">23</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">27</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">24</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">27<fraction>2/3</fraction></entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">25</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">28<fraction>1/3</fraction></entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">26</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">29</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">27</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">29<fraction>2/3</fraction></entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">28</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">30<fraction>1/3</fraction></entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">29</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">31</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">30</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">31<fraction>2/3</fraction></entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">31</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">32<fraction>1/3</fraction></entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">32</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">33</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">33</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">33<fraction>2/3</fraction></entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">34</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">34<fraction>1/3</fraction></entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">35 or greater</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">35.</entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H10AC603E28964934B780563A9DEFB2E4" indent="up1"><enum>(iii)</enum>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HEB7D4751AF14450C87C3C2656BE77BB4"><enum>(I)</enum><text>For purposes of this subparagraph, the term <quote>year of work</quote> means, with respect to an individual, a year to which there is credited wages and self-employment income earned or derived by such individual in an amount equal to not less than, in the case of any such year, $10,875, multiplied by the ratio that the national average wage index (as defined in section 209(k)(1)) for the second year prior to such year bears to the national average wage index (as so defined) for 2017.</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" id="H7D39355B6F2B497DAA658AE2B51E2EDD" indent="up1"><enum>(II)</enum><text>For purposes of applying the table in clause (ii) in the case of an individual entitled to disability insurance benefits under section 223, the number of years of work of such individual shall be deemed to be the product of 35 times the ratio of the actual number of years of work of such individual to the number of such individual’s benefit computation years. Any such product which is not a multiple of one shall be rounded to the next higher multiple of one.</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" id="H82EF8220129D47CFADE9B745442D26DB" indent="up1"><enum>(III)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of a widow, surviving divorced wife, widower, surviving divorced husband, or surviving divorced parent (hereinafter in this subclause referred to as the <quote>surviving beneficiary</quote>) of an individual whose primary insurance amount is otherwise determined, but for this subclause, under the preceding provisions of this subparagraph (hereinafter in this subclause referred to as the <quote>insured individual</quote>), for purposes of determining the widow’s, widower’s, mother’s, or father’s insurance benefit of the surviving beneficiary under subsection (e), (f), or (g) of section 202 on the basis of such primary insurance amount, such primary insurance amount shall be deemed to be equal to the primary insurance amount which would be determined under this subparagraph (before application of this subclause) if the number of years of work of the insured individual were equal to the product of 35 times the ratio (not greater than one) of the actual number of years of work of the surviving beneficiary to the number of the benefit computation years of the insured individual. Any such product which is not a multiple of one shall be rounded to the next higher multiple of one.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="HC8CCD7CB3F9547C9808DBE147DCBCC3D" indent="up1"><enum>(iv)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of an individual who initially becomes eligible for old-age or disability insurance benefits, or who dies (before becoming eligible for such benefits), in any year during the 9-year period beginning with 2023, the primary insurance amount computed under subparagraph (A) with respect to the individual shall not be less than the greater of—</text>
<subclause id="H2374D3ABC53E4EC88B5AA9C990C44CF4"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the minimum amount computed under subparagraph (C), or</text> </subclause><subclause id="H4CA0FA05E4B44158A81B2B0E5E502D6A"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the applicable phase-in percentage (specified for such calendar year in the table set forth in clause (v)) of the minimum amount determined under clause (ii).</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H5D1CA26CBFB3449287C1372BFF9EA79C" indent="up1"><enum>(v)</enum><text>The table set forth in this clause is as follows:</text> <table align-to-level="section" blank-lines-before="1" colsep="0" frame="none" line-rules="no-gen" rowsep="0" rule-weights="0.0.0.0.0.0" table-template-name="Flush/hang, 1 text, 1 num, bold hds" table-type="Leaderwork"><tgroup cols="2" rowsep="0"><colspec coldef="txt" colname="column1" colwidth="182pts" min-data-value="55"></colspec><colspec align="justify" coldef="fig" colname="column2" colwidth="210pts" min-data-value="5"></colspec><thead><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" morerows="0" namest="column1" rowsep="0"></entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" morerows="0" namest="column2" rowsep="0"><bold>The applicable phase-in</bold></entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" morerows="0" namest="column1" rowsep="0"><bold>For the calendar year:</bold></entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" morerows="0" namest="column2" rowsep="0"><bold>percentage is:</bold></entry></row></thead><tbody><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2023</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">10</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2024</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">20</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2025</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">30</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2026</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">40</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2027</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">50</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2028</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">60</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2029</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">70</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2030</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">80</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2031</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">90.</entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table></clause></subparagraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H15F7DF0CEB374A69AF54B63D41DCA1F3"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>Section 209(k)(1) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/409">42 U.S.C. 409(k)(1)</external-xref>) (as amended by section 101) is further amended by inserting <quote>215(a)(1)(F), </quote> after <quote>215(a)(1)(E),</quote>.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="HDD433456116043CAA68B941FB3E9F1B0" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>202.</enum><header>Repeal of the Retirement Earnings Test</header>
<subsection id="H036C8D7A7DF6473D8E20DE82A4378A9A"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subsections (b), (c)(1), (d), (f), (h), (j), and (k) of section 203 of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/403">42 U.S.C. 403</external-xref>) are repealed.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H3406AE1512CF45E19BE5F469B753EB4B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 203 of such Act (as amended by subsection (a)) is further amended—</text> <paragraph id="HAC00041D312E4E98BA91369B39A6F407"><enum>(1)</enum><text>by redesignating subsections (c), (e), (g), and (l) as subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e), respectively;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HC708D8E274FA47D1BF57C49D40524CCE"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (b) (as so redesignated)—</text> <subparagraph id="HDFF6189B32A54D6787B48F6FAC64DFB5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>by striking <quote><header-in-text level="subsection" style="traditional">Noncovered Work Outside the United States or</header-in-text></quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H774EA7B04653437B904B9007A5635235"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) as paragraphs (1), (2), and (3), respectively;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H47FA09DB1AD4465399E15B2E203C14CD"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by striking <quote>paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H23B84E91C08F4E749AE0A882BC60367F"><enum>(D)</enum><text>by striking the last sentence;</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HC2C6D19D2089469AAEA0A61625EE6A41"><enum>(3)</enum><text>in subsection (c) (as so redesignated), by striking <quote>subsections (c) and (d)</quote> and inserting <quote>subsection (b)</quote>;</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H82586093BDB54A5EBAFD0DEB87DBF553"><enum>(4)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (d) (as so redesignated), by striking <quote>subsection (c)</quote> each place it appears and inserting <quote>subsection (b)</quote>; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HA137E4690FF54044B3D304B225FDFD6A"><enum>(5)</enum><text>in subsection (e) (as so redesignated), by striking <quote>subsection (g) or (h)(1)(A)</quote> and inserting <quote>subsection (d)</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HE419549019B943F683C6FF1CDE7272C0"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Additional conforming amendments</header>
<paragraph id="HAA8427E0A73746FBB7D52332512A2E40"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Provisions relating to benefits terminated upon deportation</header><text>Section 202(n)(1) of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(n)(1)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>Section 203(b), (c), and (d)</quote> and inserting <quote>Section 203(b)</quote>.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H1CDFF9B3D41D4DC8A1EE4FE4158EA692"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Provisions relating to exemptions from reductions based on early retirement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 202(q) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(q)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H48BF54008ACD404BB0AFDE2F50B6AB13"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (5)(B), by striking <quote>section 203(c)(2)</quote> and inserting <quote>section 203(b)(1)</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H5771A71AD13A43A5A5CA4E39EA3BEA34"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (7)(A), by striking <quote>deductions under section 203(b), 203(c)(1), 203(d)(1), or 222(b)</quote> and inserting <quote>deductions on account of work under section 203 or deductions under section 222(b)</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HD8C72FCA4C5842CEB1ABCC55EB99710A"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Provisions relating to exemptions from reductions based on disregard of certain entitlements to
child’s insurance benefits</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 202(s) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(s)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H9423A1D66C984F1BA56FA9100DDC9ABC"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1), by striking <quote>paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of section 203(c)</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of section 203(b)</quote>; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H6E64CF5E7B854EEE9398B605EC54D353"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (3), by striking <quote>The last sentence of subsection (c) of section 203, subsection (f)(1)(C) of section 203, and subsections</quote> and inserting <quote>Subsections</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H0F7EAD12C56B4D0487EC1231C49AE0AF"><enum>(4)</enum><header>Provisions relating to suspension of aliens' benefits</header><text>Section 202(t)(7) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(t)(7)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>Subsections (b), (c), and (d)</quote> and inserting <quote>Subsection (b)</quote>.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HC76CA57A57864572AE6E7F160820BD01"><enum>(5)</enum><header>Provisions relating to reductions in benefits based on maximum benefits</header><text>Section 203(a)(3)(B)(iii) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/403">42 U.S.C. 403(a)(3)(B)(iii)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>and subsections (b), (c), and (d)</quote> and inserting <quote>and subsection (b)</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0EDBA34BF8924890AEB82388E9E1B203"><enum>(6)</enum><header>Provisions relating to penalties for misrepresentations concerning earnings for periods subject to
deductions on account of work</header><text>Section 208(a)(1)(C) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/408">42 U.S.C. 408(a)(1)(C)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>under section 203(f) of this title for purposes of deductions from benefits</quote> and inserting <quote>under section 203 for purposes of deductions from benefits on account of work</quote>.</text> </paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H8E7A1D22B4144068B2C7EA9703EC382F"><enum>(7)</enum><header>Provisions taking into account earnings in determining benefit computation years</header><text>Clause (I) in the next to last sentence of section 215(b)(2)(A) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/415">42 U.S.C. 415(b)(2)(A)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>no earnings as described in section 203(f)(5) in such year</quote> and inserting <quote>no wages, and no net earnings from self-employment (in excess of net loss from self-employment), in such year</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HE35601ADCCD144629162E86B02A549D2"><enum>(8)</enum><header>Provisions relating to rounding of benefits</header><text>Section 215(g) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/415">42 U.S.C. 415(g)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>and any deduction under section 203(b)</quote>.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HE979EA3BA2194F038E55D3EF8DFEE60D"><enum>(9)</enum><header>Provisions defining income for purposes of SSI</header><text>Section 1612(a) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/1382a">42 U.S.C. 1382a(a)</external-xref>) is amended—</text>
<subparagraph id="H08A5B1A922F44E1E8FBAD561CFF972BA"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)(A), by striking <quote>as determined under section 203(f)(5)(C)</quote> and inserting <quote>as defined in the last two sentences of this subsection</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H19675BD78045450BA65848C06BF316BB"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">by adding at the end (after and below paragraph (2)(H)) the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H832C7022592847BE85F858B7BD69483F" style="traditional">
<quoted-block-continuation-text quoted-block-continuation-text-level="subsection">For purposes of paragraph (1)(A), the term <term>wages</term> means wages as defined in section 209, but computed without regard to the limitations as to
amounts of remuneration specified in paragraphs (1), (6)(B), (6)(C),
(7)(B), and (8) of section 209(a). In making the computation under the
preceding sentence, (A) services which do not constitute employment as
defined in section 210, performed within the United States by an
individual as an employee or performed outside the United States in the
active military or naval services of the United States, shall be deemed to
be employment as so defined if the remuneration for such services is not
includible in computing the individual's net earnings or net loss from
self-employment for purposes of title II, and (B) the term <term>wages</term> shall be deemed not to include (i) the amount of any payment made to, or on behalf of, an employee
or any of his or her dependents (including any amount paid by an employer
for insurance or annuities, or into a fund, to provide for any such
payment) on account of retirement, or (ii) any payment or series of
payments by an employer to an employee or any of his or her dependents
upon or after the termination of the employee’s employment relationship
because of retirement after attaining an age specified in a plan referred
to in section 209(a)(11)(B) or in a pension plan of the employer.</quoted-block-continuation-text><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H081F9EC2C6C145E78BF914AD13F5ECD7"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to taxable years ending after December 31, 2022.</text>
</subsection></section><enum>III</enum><header>Improving retirement security</header>
<section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H3E6D845B5CC94ACC85989F7AF4DEAF15" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>301.</enum><header>Phaseout of tax on Social Security benefits relating to the Social Security trust funds</header>
<subsection id="H54F7406F366148EFB6B3B52909CAA1DD"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline"><external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/86">Section 86</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H05036239457F46909DCF4ABF0CDE29DA" style="OLC">
<subsection id="H3CADAF414CA940A69CD937B236A9765B"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Phaseout of tax relating to the Social Security trust funds</header>
<paragraph id="H582B5484C60746CDBC4081117D940869"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>In the case of any taxable year beginning after December 31, 2044, and before January 1, 2054, the base amount shall be determined under subsection (c)(1) by—</text>
<subparagraph id="H2F6A61C59F4C48D29BAFB715B4ECCC46"><enum>(A)</enum><text>substituting for <quote>$25,000</quote> the amount determined in accordance with the following table:</text> <table align-to-level="section" blank-lines-before="1" colsep="0" frame="none" line-rules="no-gen" rowsep="0" rule-weights="0.0.0.0.0.0" subformat="S6211" table-template-name="Flush/hang, 1 text, 1 num, bold hds" table-type="Leaderwork"><tgroup cols="2" rowsep="0"><colspec coldef="txt" colname="column1" colwidth="258pts" min-data-value="55"></colspec><colspec coldef="fig" colname="column2" colwidth="194pts" min-data-value="7"></colspec><thead><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" morerows="0" namest="column1" rowsep="0"><bold>For taxable years beginning</bold></entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" morerows="0" namest="column2" rowsep="0"></entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" morerows="0" namest="column1" rowsep="0"><bold> in calendar year—</bold></entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" morerows="0" namest="column2" rowsep="0"><bold>The amount is—</bold></entry></row></thead><tbody><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2045</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">$32,500</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2046</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">$40,000</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2047</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">$47,500</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2048</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">$55,000</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2049</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">$62,500</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2050</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">$70,000</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2051</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">$77,500</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2052</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">$85,000</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2053</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">$92,500;</entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table> <continuation-text continuation-text-level="subparagraph">and</continuation-text></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HAA82EC7779874D168E618A489EB37714"><enum>(B)</enum><text>substituting for <quote>$32,000</quote> the amount determined in accordance with the following table:</text>
<table align-to-level="section" blank-lines-before="1" colsep="0" frame="none" line-rules="no-gen" rowsep="0" rule-weights="0.0.0.0.0.0" subformat="S6211" table-template-name="Flush/hang, 1 text, 1 num, bold hds" table-type="Leaderwork"><tgroup cols="2" rowsep="0"><colspec coldef="txt" colname="column1" colwidth="258pts" min-data-value="55"></colspec><colspec coldef="fig" colname="column2" colwidth="194pts" min-data-value="7"></colspec><thead><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" morerows="0" namest="column1" rowsep="0"><bold>For taxable years
beginning</bold></entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" morerows="0" namest="column2" rowsep="0"></entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" morerows="0" namest="column1" rowsep="0"><bold> in calendar year—</bold></entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" morerows="0" namest="column2" rowsep="0"><bold>The amount is—</bold></entry></row></thead><tbody><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2045</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">$65,000</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2046</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">$80,000</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2047</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">$95,000</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2048</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">$110,000</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2049</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">$125,000</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2050</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">$140,000</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2051</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">$155,000</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2052</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">$170,000</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" leader-modify="force-ldr" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">2053</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" leader-modify="clr-ldr" rowsep="0">$185,000.</entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H990566FDA753420482F91E64AF5FD4C8"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Termination after 2053 of tax relating to the Social Security trust funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of any taxable year beginning after December 31, 2053—</text> <subparagraph id="HE57B002A9B7A4D0A87D288AD4A0A9037"><enum>(A)</enum><text>subsection (a)(1) shall not apply, and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H17525B82A1D8458894906E9787F121A5"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the amount determined under paragraph (3)(A) shall be zero.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H8BD589895D8E4FC78B31B01C1BBA76C8"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Preservation of tax relating to the hospital insurance trust fund</header><text>In the case of any taxable year beginning after December 31, 2044, the amount determined under subsection (a)(2) shall be equal to the sum of—</text>
<subparagraph id="H1C26DDCE39064BB7AA7A3A723B32E16A"><enum>(A)</enum><text>the amount determined under subsection (a)(1) (after the application of paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection), plus</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2244D25CA5A94B959B5C9E640EF4A99D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>the excess of—</text> <clause id="H62839CC13ACE46F3BBEA31C9D1582989"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the amount determined under subsection (a)(2)—</text>
<subclause id="H16125721568540D8B9CE68D44B2891FC"><enum>(I)</enum><text>without regard to this paragraph, and</text> </subclause><subclause id="H0DC6DE33BDE44A45B426C7A0FBB8CDEA"><enum>(II)</enum><text>by determining the base amount, and the amount determined under subsection (a)(1), without regard to paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection, over</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H698314F95BE64DE68C0EB0FB1153AF16"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the amount determined under subsection (a)(1) without regard to paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H4C26689DF9014590A72618D8CCC2C79F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>Section 871(a)(3)(A) of such Code is amended by inserting <quote>(35 percent in the case of taxable years beginning after December 31, 2053)</quote> after <quote>85 percent</quote>.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H143144AC37C540F8983DCFB91D1882A9"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Transfers to trust funds</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">With respect to tax liabilities determined for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2044, the aggregate increase in tax liabilities described in section 121(e)(1)(A)(ii) of the Social Security Amendments of 1983 (and referred to in section 121(e)(1)(B) of such Act) shall be equal to the aggregate increase in tax liabilities under <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/26/1">chapter 1</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 which is attributable to section 86(a)(2) of such Code (determined after application of section 86(g)(3) of such Code). With respect to tax liabilities for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2053, such aggregate shall be increased by the aggregate increase in such tax liabilities which is attributable to section 871(a)(3)(A) of such Code.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H09FD570964B34289A9561FC8616C11CD"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Effective dates</header>
<paragraph id="HFDEBEAA83CF64CBC985942D18859CBFC"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the amendments made by this section shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2044.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H0DF34C9BDCD240638BDE28A1A624C5EB"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>The amendment made by subsection (b) shall apply to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2053.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H42DCEF71BFC04AF094CDA9CF0E62898B"><enum>302.</enum><header>Option to claim delayed retirement credit in partial lump sum</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">Section 202(w) of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(w)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H6741409256284EF6AAF20970CD7D569E" style="traditional">
<paragraph id="H47E01604384443B38B1B8FDA5E6F09F1" indent="up1"><enum>(7)</enum>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H7B8DB0F539C146FE91480D913C9C3BBA"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In any case in which an individual becomes entitled to an old-age insurance benefit in a calendar year after 2022, and such benefit is subject to a monthly increase under paragraph (1), such individual may elect to receive, in lieu of the monthly increase under paragraph (1)—</text>
<clause id="H0DB75561E82647C09D75430E1F315776" indent="up1"><enum>(i)</enum><text>an alternate monthly increase as determined under subparagraph (E); and</text> </clause><clause id="HF8944CB6B24B4564B67746BDE923F067" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in addition to such monthly benefit as increased under clause (i), a one-time lump sum payment, payable at the time of such individual’s entitlement to such benefit, equal to the sum of the present values (as determined by the Commissioner of Social Security using reasonable assumptions) of the applicable percentage (determined under subparagraph (B)) of the amount of such monthly benefit (as determined before the application of such increase) for each month in the life expectancy period (determined under subparagraph (C)).</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H490F766FE8C547E1A26AFCB22F5E5300" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The applicable percentage determined under this subparagraph is the percentage equal to the product of—</text>
<clause id="H2A8E893EE8EF439F96817AC3833ED546"><enum>(i)</enum><text><fraction>1/6</fraction> of 1 percent, multiplied by</text> </clause><clause id="HD7D914CAB1A34D3A914DD62B62231678"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the number (if any) of the increment months for such individual.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HAB6DF8D63E3149388AF63487CAB52348" indent="up1"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The life expectancy period determined under this subparagraph is, with respect to an individual, the period—</text>
<clause id="H669C7E9F30264C84B234F803E04CC615"><enum>(i)</enum><text>beginning with the month in which the individual becomes entitled to an old-age insurance benefit; and</text>
</clause><clause id="HB4A2127F4A3545389167696CE1B8D0EC"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">ending with the month before the last month of life expectancy (as determined by the Commissioner of Social Security using reasonable actuarial assumptions) for the cohort of individuals who become eligible for an old-age insurance benefit in the same month as the individual.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H28B8FCAF59FC4A2C97AFE362E6DAC477" indent="up1"><enum>(D)</enum><text>The Commissioner of Social Security shall certify to the Managing Trustee of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund the amount of any lump sum payment payable to an individual under subparagraph (A) and, upon receipt of such certification, the Managing Trustee shall make payment of such lump sum payment to such individual from such Trust Fund.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H169F57603ECB40578AA97BA7DE2D6498" indent="up1"><enum>(E)</enum><text>An alternate monthly increase for an individual determined under this subparagraph shall be equal to the monthly increase for the individual that would be determined under paragraph (1) if such monthly increase were determined by substituting <quote><fraction>1/2</fraction></quote> for <quote><fraction>2/3</fraction></quote> in paragraph (6)(D).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD6457D1D30304289BD706D45E4C75E03" indent="up1"><enum>(F)</enum>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H135498146D7847F8800CD34DA4C6DA53"><enum>(i)</enum><text>For purposes of determining the amount of any benefit payable under this title on the basis of the wages and self-employment income of an individual who makes an election under this paragraph, the amount of any such benefit shall be determined as if such individual’s old-age benefit had been increased under paragraph (1) without regard to this paragraph.</text>
</clause><clause id="H86EDB90EAED540E0BBF84A273D2F248C" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of applying any reduction under subsection (k)(3)(A) to the monthly insurance benefit of an individual who makes an election under this paragraph, the amount of such individual’s old-age benefit shall be determined as if such old-age benefit had been increased under paragraph (1) without regard to this paragraph.</text></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</section><section id="H39F746AC595742A7851181E6CC7A9307" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>303.</enum><header>Strengthening Social Security for low-income seniors</header>
<subsection id="HE35085016B234F56A4C5B795A06E4F27"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 202 of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text>
<quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H45BB86920B4144A59F4F06909D621D27" style="traditional">
<subsection id="H929C6498BEA5410C981B13FBC45822EF"><enum>(aa)</enum><header>Increase in benefit amounts on account of long-Term eligibility</header>
<paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H0B328661A7814B60A88B5962EEC8516D"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of an individual who is a qualified beneficiary for a calendar year after 2022, the amount of any monthly insurance benefit of such qualified beneficiary under this section or section 223 for any month in such calendar year shall be increased in accordance with paragraph (3).</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="HAFC0B50CCBBD4077B7C0CDA7AEEFC1A1" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HC0B3BCD0BF6143E9B90079AFAB2EF3D8"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this subsection, the term <quote>qualified beneficiary</quote> for a calendar year means an individual in any case in which—</text> <clause id="HAB24A82997C44DD28CF1119ACE13EF49" indent="up1"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such calendar year begins at least 20 years after the applicable date of eligibility for such individual; and</text>
</clause><clause id="H15DCCAB3785845E68FB1E04758EBA549" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">such individuals’s modified adjusted gross income (applicable with respect to such calendar year as determined under subparagraph (C)) is less than (subject to subparagraph (D)) the applicable base amount for such calendar year, or in the case of a joint return (within the meaning of <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/26/7701">section 7701(a)(38)</external-xref> of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986), double such applicable base amount.</text>
</clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD8DCAAD8EA7644A49510BCC0C19F87C4" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">For purposes of this subsection, the applicable date of eligibility for an individual is the date on which the individual on whose wages and self-employment income the monthly insurance benefit is based initially became eligible (or died before becoming eligible) for old-age insurance benefits under subsection (a) or entitled to disability insurance benefits under section 223.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H78599E7CF6E742AF80B56BCFB3E20B3B" indent="up1"><enum>(C)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">An individuals’s modified adjusted gross income applicable with respect to a calendar year shall be as determined for purposes of section 1839(i)(4) with respect to premiums for a month in such year.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEC066711D92D4C958739EE7EBF03BA74" indent="up1"><enum>(D)</enum><text>For purposes of subparagraph (A)(ii), the applicable base amount for a calendar year is—</text> <clause id="HDAE0984AA2D746E0BD93BBE3716560CB"><enum>(i)</enum><text>in the case of calendar year 2023, $25,000; and</text>
</clause><clause display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H54C904EBADFA4B6DBA5578D9831B090B"><enum>(ii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of any calendar year beginning after 2023, the product (rounded to the nearest multiple of $1,000) of $25,000 and the percentage (if any) by which the average of the Chained Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (C–CPI–U, as published in its initial version by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor) for the 12-month period ending with August of the preceding calendar year exceeds such average for the 12-month period ending with August 2022.</text>
</clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HA4049DB987744288AD2BF006EF5C5D6D" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum>
<subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H1B304A9CF4C2408C80675F315BFF38F8"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The increase required under paragraph (1) with respect to the monthly insurance benefit of an individual who is a qualified beneficiary for a calendar year shall be equal to the applicable percentage (specified for such benefit in subparagraph (B)) of the full increase amount for such calendar year (determined under subparagraph (C)).</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HB37739E5DAF14A5395DB8B26A74CAA16" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text>The applicable percentage specified for a monthly insurance benefit under this subparagraph for a calendar year is the percentage specified, in connection with the number of years ending after the applicable date of eligibility for such individual and before such calendar year, in the following table:</text>
<table align-to-level="section" blank-lines-before="1" colsep="0" frame="none" line-rules="no-gen" rowsep="0" rule-weights="0.0.0.0.0.0" table-template-name="Flush/hang, 1 text, 1 num, bold hds" table-type="Leaderwork"><tgroup cols="2" rowsep="0"><colspec coldef="txt" colname="column1" colwidth="182pts" min-data-value="55"></colspec><colspec align="justify" coldef="fig" colname="column2" colwidth="210pts" min-data-value="5"></colspec><thead><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" morerows="0" namest="column1" rowsep="0"></entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" morerows="0" namest="column2" rowsep="0"><bold>The applicable</bold></entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" morerows="0" namest="column1" rowsep="0"><bold>If the number of years is:</bold></entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" morerows="0" namest="column2" rowsep="0"><bold>percentage is:</bold></entry></row></thead><tbody><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">20</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">20</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">21</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">40</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">22</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">60</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">23</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">80</entry></row><row><entry align="left" colname="column1" rowsep="0" stub-definition="txt-ldr">24 or more</entry><entry align="right" colname="column2" rowsep="0">100.</entry></row></tbody></tgroup></table>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE55EE7C46F41451E8505CBCF5964CF0D" indent="up1"><enum>(C)</enum>
<clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H27877E41AFA843DABB3E370A8E5C8E29"><enum>(i)</enum><text>Except as provided in clauses (ii) and (iii), the full increase amount determined under this subparagraph for a calendar year in connection with the monthly insurance benefit of a qualified beneficiary is a dollar amount equal to 5 percent of the primary insurance amount of a hypothetical individual if—</text>
<subclause id="HCED28BA85AF84F28AC044E92E56237E4" indent="up1"><enum>(I)</enum><text>such primary insurance amount is determined for January of such calendar year;</text> </subclause><subclause id="H67C9CE7CB10243CE9F877EDC209AE297" indent="up1"><enum>(II)</enum><text>on January 1 of the calendar year in which occurred the applicable date of eligibility with respect to such qualified beneficiary, such hypothetical individual were fully insured, attained retirement age (as defined in section 216(l)(2)) and were otherwise eligible for, and applied for, old-age insurance benefits; and</text>
</subclause><subclause id="H37B72CD0E9394073BE1EF4D0B206FAA0" indent="up1"><enum>(III)</enum><text>such hypothetical individual’s average indexed monthly earnings taken into account in determining such primary insurance amount were equal to <fraction>1/12</fraction> of the national average wage index (as defined in section 209(k)(1)) for the second year prior to such calendar year.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H4DAA8DF8A8D340B3B75E362D23D16840" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum>
<subclause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HEEDE8EB4D6F04BCDB0EB40DFA57B641F"><enum>(I)</enum><text>In the case of a monthly insurance benefit under subsection (b) or (c), the full increase amount determined under this subparagraph shall be one-half the amount determined under clause (i); or</text>
</subclause><subclause commented="no" id="H3852C91F5DB149B4A6F34B13EFF4CDB9" indent="up1"><enum>(II)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in the case of a monthly insurance benefit under subsection (d), (g), or (h), the full increase amount determined under this subparagraph shall be the percentage of the amount determined under clause (i) equal to the ratio which the amount of such benefit bears to the primary insurance amount (before the application of section 203(a)) of the individual on whose wages and self-employment income the monthly insurance benefit is based.</text>
</subclause></clause><clause id="H271010FA264841CEBE98584BA65708A3" indent="up1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">In the case of an individual whose applicable date of eligibility is before 2019, the full increase amount determined under this subparagraph shall be the product of—</text>
<subclause id="H203580594F574F72B1C4B95F13EBFA33"><enum>(I)</enum><text>the amount determined under clause (i) (after application of any reduction under clause (ii)); and</text> </subclause><subclause id="H69C66B83B71A4F348BC78D777F09C346"><enum>(II)</enum><text>a fraction—</text>
<item id="HE3BF17A9B3DD408A922997D449A82AFC"><enum>(aa)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the numerator of which is the number of calendar years in the period beginning with calendar year 2019 and ending with the first calendar year for which the individual is a qualified beneficiary; and</text>
</item><item id="H1AB6B22BF22C4BDE97D168D58F519A41"><enum>(bb)</enum><text>the denominator of which is 24.</text> </item></subclause></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H76A8648E211E4F6187A61F20E54B629D" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><text>In the case of a qualified beneficiary who is entitled to 2 or more monthly insurance benefits under this title for the same month—</text>
<subparagraph id="HBECC4EA2DC704034B277E00EDAA8E2AC"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the earliest applicable date of eligibility for such beneficiary with respect to such benefits shall be treated as the applicable date of eligibility for such beneficiary for the purposes of this subsection; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE0BD302B9F5D4847903108001E218385"><enum>(B)</enum><text>such beneficiary shall be entitled to an increase with respect only to one such benefit.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HB47E2DA462D1426F9DA088E68AEDC930" indent="up1"><enum>(5)</enum><text>This subsection shall be applied to monthly insurance benefits after any increase under subsection (w) and any applicable reductions and deductions under this title.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H63F0561C7F4B4F05B23C01E263FC9919" indent="up1"><enum>(6)</enum><text>In any case in which an individual is entitled to benefits under both this section and section 223, the increase under this subsection shall be paid from the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund.</text></paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block>
</subsection><subsection id="H1A466A3CAAF94567B2092B1B210736EF"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header>
<paragraph id="H46B51002263B4D6A8B54763FD6850838"><enum>(1)</enum><text>Section 202 of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="HEB24EAF52B4D42538303A12B88135D79"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in the last sentence of subsection (a), by striking <quote>subsection (q) and subsection (w)</quote> and inserting <quote>subsections (q), (w), and (aa)</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H370BCEB22E024E75BD63238FC06E6A3D"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in subsection (b)(2), by striking <quote>subsections (k)(5) and (q)</quote> and inserting <quote>subsections (k)(5), (q), and (aa)</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H2F1B627D310F4DA7A2AA739ED031AC39"><enum>(C)</enum><text>in subsection (c)(2), by striking <quote>subsections (k)(5) and (q)</quote> and inserting <quote>subsections (k)(5), (q), and (aa)</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H90D1548D7E79454FB79D766EA64B99C2"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in subsection (d)(2), by adding at the end the following: <quote>This paragraph shall apply subject to subsection (aa).</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HCB114F747DB2485DA805B8FEE6EEAAA7"><enum>(E)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (e)(2)(A), by striking <quote>subsection (k)(5), subsection (q), and subparagraph (D) of this paragraph</quote> and inserting <quote>subsection (k)(5), subsection (q), subsection (aa), and subparagraph (D) of this paragraph</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H472568E5648E4AE585556902D6DA667A"><enum>(F)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in subsection (f)(2)(A), by striking <quote>subsection (k)(5), subsection (q), and subparagraph (D) of this paragraph</quote> and inserting <quote>subsection (k)(5), subsection (q), subsection (aa), and subparagraph (D) of this paragraph</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H08CB47D479C741DDA069E53BC57F80DC"><enum>(G)</enum><text>in subsection (g)(2), by striking <quote>Such</quote> and inserting <quote>Except as provided in subsections (k)(5) and (aa), such</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H0A8EA58966B340B2B5B751252D143531"><enum>(H)</enum><text>in subsection (h)(2)(A), by inserting <quote>and subsection (aa)</quote> after <quote>subparagraphs (B) and (C)</quote>; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H27A22EE76FCB4EE29B9893063B7F2826"><enum>(I)</enum><text>in section 223(a)(2), by striking <quote>section 202(q)</quote> and inserting <quote>sections 202(q) and 202(aa)</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HA84AE40743BE40B7BA05C6C42014EAA0"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Section 203(a)(4) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/403">42 U.S.C. 403(a)(4)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting after <quote>section 222(b)</quote> the following: <quote>and before any increase under section 202(aa)</quote>.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H43C7CC1BF24E415AB2B80D119976544E"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Section 209(k)(1) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/409">42 U.S.C. 409(k)(1)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>202(aa)(2)(D)(i), 202(aa)(3)(C)(i)(II),</quote> before <quote>203(f)(8)(B)(ii)</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection></section><section id="H40E8C47AF6ED43B18103550EE00394AB" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>304.</enum><header>End 7-year limitation for disabled surviving spouses</header>
<subsection id="H2C6703F848AF474EA26491C096059F7C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Widow’s insurance benefits</header>
<paragraph id="H61A894A0710245E9BC28FAAE5BA13622"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 202(e) of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(e)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="HDC63D2F64D994D4BA91C0BA2191DA9C5"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)(B)(ii), by striking <quote>which began before the end of the period specified in paragraph (4)</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H168C125BF5E04022A37411E41CCC6618"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)(F)(ii), by striking <quote>(I) in the period specified in paragraph (4) and (II)</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H15B19FD4F88D4010BCD5E53427D871A5"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (4) and by redesignating paragraphs (5) through (8) as paragraphs (4) through (7), respectively; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HEC37B6817DB24CB3B310FF7C26C2710F"><enum>(D)</enum><text>in paragraph (4)(A)(ii) (as redesignated by subparagraph (C)), by striking <quote>whichever</quote> and all that follows through <quote>begins</quote> and inserting <quote>the first day of the seventeenth month before the month in which her application is filed</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H6ADDD17A69B74FF880A91C8758C5D92F"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header> <subparagraph id="HA863FA0F6A8849F7BAE0371A04B3B0B8"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Section 202(e)(1)(F)(i) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(e)(1)(F)(i)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>paragraph (5)</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph (4)</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="H8918AB5F83F940869478220B6ACEE176"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Section 202(e)(1)(C)(ii)(III) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(e)(2)(C)(ii)(III)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>paragraph (8)</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph (6)</quote>.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1CF28F2DF1644CAE8A74BF0E52235A29"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Section 226(e)(1)(A)(i) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/426">42 U.S.C. 426(e)(1)(A)(i)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>202(e)(4),</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H7AEDBFDEEA16404FAFE30A8A04A98B9B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Widower’s insurance benefits</header>
<paragraph id="HD12A33149CFE491BAE0A3A1210B88B82"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Section 202(f) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(f)</external-xref>) is amended—</text> <subparagraph id="H370CEBBF2C024C4F93D4D2CF9C2F5915"><enum>(A)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)(B)(ii), by striking <quote>which began before the end of the period specified in paragraph (4)</quote>;</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HE937CBEECCA948CBA648B4D7E70BF7A3"><enum>(B)</enum><text>in paragraph (1)(F)(ii), by striking <quote>(I) in the period specified in paragraph (4) and (II)</quote>;</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H535CF30C3B4C4F1DAFEF58F859BBB9E0"><enum>(C)</enum><text>by striking paragraph (4) and by redesignating paragraphs (5) through (8) as paragraphs (4) through (7), respectively; and</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFF249025798C43F59DF34F6F1E47DB69"><enum>(D)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">in paragraph (4)(A)(ii) (as redesignated by subparagraph (C)), by striking <quote>whichever</quote> and all that follows through <quote>begins</quote> and inserting <quote>the first day of the seventeenth month before the month in which his application is filed</quote>.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H6AE9DF7BDEDF4C489F9065F57D4B63C6"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Conforming amendments</header> <subparagraph id="HE651ABD10B934D77946A87176C0A5A8B"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Section 202(f)(1)(F)(i) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(f)(1)(F)(i)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>paragraph (5)</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph (4)</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph><subparagraph id="HFEA86B1440004A14BDBB9B0DD227E575"><enum>(B)</enum><text>Section 202(f)(1)(C)(ii)(III) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(f)(2)(C)(ii)(III)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>paragraph (8)</quote> and inserting <quote>paragraph (6)</quote>.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H4ADC7D002608418892204CA1824CF045"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Section 226(e)(1)(A)(i) of such Act (as amended by subsection (a)(2)(C)) is further amended by striking <quote>202(f)(1)(B)(ii), and 202(f)(4)</quote> and inserting <quote>and 202(f)(1)(B)(ii)</quote>.</text>
</subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HE0197945BF484B8A936A0E3B145F00A4"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to benefits payable for months after December 2022 and for which applications are filed after December 2022.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H20E8D87924E74C298C94C8B3BD02B76F" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>305.</enum><header>Benefits for disabled surviving spouses</header>
<subsection id="HD21D78D0A40646BC8B9086472F4657B2"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header>
<paragraph id="HA41C67A0412044D4A74948A871BA82FA"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Eligibility for widow’s insurance benefits</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 202(e)(1)(B)(ii) of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(e)(1)(B)(ii)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>has attained age 50 but has not attained age 60 and</quote>.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph id="H7325A77EF4A44FAEA1730CB29D6E8465"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Eligibility for widower’s insurance benefits</header><text>Section 202(f)(1)(B)(ii) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(f)(1)(B)(ii)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>has attained age 50 but has not attained age 60 and</quote>.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H2EDBB49247084B7C8A571D0381194B85"><enum>(3)</enum><header>Conforming amendment</header><text>Section 202(q)(3)(A) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(q)(3)(A)</external-xref>) is amended by striking <quote>If the first month</quote> and all that follows through <quote>widow’s or widower’s insurance benefit)</quote> and inserting <quote>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 or for which an individual is entitled to a widow’s or widower’s insurance benefit</quote>.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HDEA4F3FD85CF4EC2AD0FFE830B00692F"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Preclusion of entitlement after early remarriage</header>
<paragraph id="H2C6DC576094A4D5685D3702FE7D9E3F4"><enum>(1)</enum><header>Widow’s insurance benefits</header><text>Section 202(e)(1)(B)(ii) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(e)(1)(B)(ii)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>and has not remarried prior to attaining the age which is 12 years less than early retirement age (as defined in section 216(l)(2))</quote> before the comma.</text>
</paragraph><paragraph display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H7FB85FC9A45E4558B8719BC4BDA0C87E"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Widower’s insurance benefits</header><text>Section 202(f)(1)(B)(ii) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(f)(1)(B)(ii)</external-xref>) is amended by inserting <quote>and has not remarried prior to attaining the age which is 12 years less than early retirement age (as defined in section 216(l)(2))</quote> before the comma.</text>
</paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H77BCAD634750449FA3A59D20AB00BA19"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to benefits payable for months after December 2022 and for which applications are filed after December 2022.</text>
</subsection></section><section id="H35948E4AEBAA4B3BA5D543F2DBBC76C4"><enum>306.</enum><header>Waive 2-year duration of divorce requirement</header>
<subsection id="H591288BD14BC46E78BC1FF0C142124A3"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Wife’s insurance benefits</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 202(b)(4)(A) of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(b)(4)(A)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: <quote>The criterion for entitlement under clause (ii) shall be deemed met upon the remarriage of the insured individual to someone other than the applicant during the 2-year period referred to in such clause.</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="H913C9502EAAA44A1B61A39C690A172F9"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Husband’s insurance benefits</header><text>Section 202(c)(4)(A) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/402">42 U.S.C. 402(c)(4)(A)</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: <quote>The criterion for entitlement under clause (ii) shall be deemed met upon the remarriage of the insured individual to someone other than the applicant during the 2-year period referred to in such clause.</quote>.</text>
</subsection><subsection id="HB88F6FC80606455C949A14ADD33DBB5A"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Effective date</header><text>The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to benefits payable for months after December 2022 and for which applications are filed after December 2022.</text>
</subsection></section>