Elimination of Requirement of Filing Application in Certain Cases

Elimination of Requirement of Filing Application in Certain Cases Sec. 110. (a) Section 202 (e) (1) (C) of the Social Security Act is amended to read as follows: “(C) (i) has filed application for widow’s insurance benefits or was entitled, after attainment of retirement age, to wife’s insurance benefits, on the basis of the wages and self-employment income of such individual, for the month preceding the month in which he died, or “(ii) was entitled, on the basis of such wages and self-employment income, to mother’s insurance benefits for the month preceding the month in which she attained retirement age,”. (b) Section 202 (g) (1) (D) of such Act is amended to read as follows: “(D) has filed application for mother’s insurance benefits, or was entitled to wife’s insurance benefits on the basis of the wages and self-employment income of such individual for the month preceding the month in which he died,”. (c) The third sentence of section 202 (i) of such Act is amended by inserting immediately before the period at the end thereof the following: “, or unless such person was entitled to wife’s or husband’s insurance benefits, on the basis of the wages and self-employment income of such insured individual, for the month preceding the month in which such individual died”.