A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that entitlement to wife's insurance benefits, in the case of a wife who has in her care a child of the insured individual entitled to child's insurance benefits on such individual's wage record, shall continue after her divorce from such individual even though she has not attained age 62 (assuming they had been married to each other for the required period) if she continues to have such child in her care.

Summary

Amends Title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide that entitlement to wife's insurance benefits, in the case of a wife who has in her care a child of the insured individual entitled to child's insurance benefits based on such individual's wage record, shall continue after her divorce from such individual even though she has not attained age 62, if she continues to have such child in her care.

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 1 May 1978

  Open at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.