A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to provide full benefits for disabled wives, husbands, widows, and widowers without regard to age (subject to limited adjustments to reflect any previous reductions in their benefits), to liberalize the strict definition of disability which is presently applicable to widows and widowers, and to provide benefits for essential spouses of disability beneficiaries without regard to age or children in care.

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Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide full benefits under title II for disabled wives, husbands, widows, and widowers without regard to age. Makes the method for determining disability under title II applicable to widows, surviving divorced wives, and widowers as well as to all other individuals. (Under current law, a separate method is used for determining whether a widow, a surviving divorced wife, or a widower is under a disability.) Authorizes benefits for essential spouses of disability beneficiaries without regard to age.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 23 June 1983

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