A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide that a divorced spouse or surviving divorced spouse may qualify for benefits based on an insured individual's wage record in any case where they had been married for at least a year (rather than only if they had been married for 10 years as required under existing law), with the monthly amount of such benefits being proportionately reduced if the marriage lasted for less than 10 years.

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Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide that a divorced spouse or a surviving divorced spouse can qualify for benefits based on an insured's wage record if the marriage lasted for at least a year. (Current law requires the marriage to have lasted ten years.) Provides that such benefits shall be reduced to an amount equal to ten percent of such benefit, as otherwise determined, multiplied by the number of ten years of the marriage.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 28 February 1985

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