reimbursement of trust fund for cost of wage credits for certain military service

reimbursement of trust fund for cost of wage credits for certain military service Sec. 406. Section 217 of the Social Security Act is amended by adding after subsection (f), (as added by section 404 (b) of this Act) the following new subsection: “(g) (1) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Trust Fund annually, as benefits under this title are paid after June 1956, such sums as the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare determines to be necessary to meet the additional costs, resulting from subsections (a), (b), and (e), of such benefits (including lumpsum death payments). “(2) The Secretary shall, before October 1, 1958, determine the amount which would place the Trust Fund in the same position in which it would have been at the close of June 30, 1956, if section 210 of this Act, as in effect prior to the Social Security Act Amendments of 1950, and section 217 of this Act (including amendments thereof), had not been enacted. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Trust Fund annually, during the first ten fiscal years 70 Stat. 876 beginning after such determination is made, sums aggregating the amount so determined, plus interest accruing on such amount (as reduced by appropriations made pursuant to this paragraph) for each fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1956, at a rate for such fiscal year equal to the average rate of interest (as determined by the Managing Trustee) earned on the invested assets of the Trust Fund during the preceding fiscal year.”