A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide that certain persons, who have innocently entered into a legally defective marriage to an insured individual and have lived with such individual as his husband or wife for at least 5 years, shall be treated, for benefit purposes, as if such marriage had been legally valid.

Summary

Amends Title II (Old-Age, Survivors', and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to provide that, for benefit purposes, an individual who has innocently entered into a legally defective marriage to an insured individual and has lived with such individual for at least five years shall be deemed to be the husband or wife, or widow or widower of the insured even though another individual is or has been deemed to be the husband or wife, or widow or widower of the insured. Directs that the insured's old-age insurance shall be reduced by an amount equal to the wife's insurance benefit whenever this Act allows two persons to receive benefits as the insured's spouse.

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 10 January 1977

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