A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the special dependency requirements for entitlement to husband's and widower's insurance benefits, to provide benefits for widower fathers with minor children, to make certain other changes so that benefits for husbands, widowers, and fathers will be payable on the same basis as benefits for wives, widows, and mothers, and to permit the payment of benefits to a married couple on their combined earnings record where that method of computation provides a higher combined benefit.

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Makes the following changes in title II of the Social Security Act (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) to: (1) eliminates the special dependency requirements for entitlement to husband's and widower's insurance benefits; (2) provides benefits for widowed fathers with minor children; (3) provides that benefits for husbands, widowers, and fathers will be payable on the same basis as benefits for wives, widows, and mothers; (4) permits the payment of benefits to a married couple on their combined earnings record where that method of computation provides a higher combined benefit; and (5) provides eligibility for unmarried divorced husbands of insured individuals.

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 13 May 1975

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