Elimination of Minimum Social Security Benefit Under Public Law 97-35: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Social Security of the Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, September 10, 1981U.S. Government Printing Office, 1981 - 57 páginas |
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1.3 million affected by elimination AHART ALDRICH amount ARCHER assets BAILEY become eligible benefit provision BILL GRADISON Chairman PICKLE committee computers Congress Congressional Budget Office cost covered earnings disabled dual beneficiaries dually entitled earnings record eligible for SSI eliminating the minimum estimates Federal pensions Federal records figure fiscal year 1983 going Government employee pension GRADISON GUARINI income characteristics J. J. PICKLE JACOBS Medicaid mini minimum beneficiaries minimum benefit recipients minimum social security minimum-benefit provision mum benefit MYERS OASDI benefits based overlap percent proposals Puerto Rico question receiving benefits receiving OASDI benefits receiving social security receiving SSI receiving the minimum reductions RIVLIN rolls ROUSSELOT sample savings Schweiker security minimum benefit SHANNON Social Security Administration social security benefits social security minimum social security system special SSI spouse's spouses SSI participation SSI payments SSI program Supplemental Security Income testimony welfare windfall
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Página 42 - Only 6 percent of the minimum beneficiaries had covered earnings of as much as $4,000 during any single year in that time period, and only one-third had covered earnings of as much as $2,000 in any one of those years.
Página 42 - Many persons had not worked in covered employment for several years before receiving social security. Nearly half had not worked in covered employment for 5 years, and about one-third for 10 years. For these people, social security was a new source of income upon becoming eligible...
Página 42 - Also, about 23 percent of our sampled minimum beneficiaries were "dually entitled." That is, they were entitled to social security on either their own or their spouse's account, and their spouse's account provided a higher payment. Under the law, the dually entitled person is paid the higher of the two entitlements. Consequently, the minimum benefit provision does not increase the benefits of the dually entitled person.
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