retroactive payment of disability insurance benefits

retroactive payment of disability insurance benefits Sec. 202. (a) Section 223 (b) of such Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: “An individual who would have been entitled to a disability insurance benefit for any month after June 1957 had he filed application therefor prior to the end of such month shall be entitled to such benefit for such month if he files application therefor prior to the end of the twelfth month immediately succeeding such month.” (b) The first sentence of section 223 (c) (3) of such Act (defining the term “waiting period” for purposes of applications for disability insurance benefits) is amended to read as follows: “(3) The term ‘waiting period’ means, in the case of any application for disability insurance benefits, the earliest period of six consecutive calendar months— “(A) throughout which the individual who files such application has been under a disability which continues until such application is filed, and “(B) (i) which begins not earlier than with the first day of the eighteenth month before the month in which such application is filed if such individual is insured for disability insurance benefits in such eighteenth month, or (ii) if he is not so insured in such month, which begins not earlier than with the first day of the first month after such eighteenth month in which he is so insured.”