crediting of quarters of coverage for years before 1951

crediting of quarters of coverage for years before 1951 Sec. 206. (a) Section 213(a)(2) of the Social Security Act is amended by striking out all that precedes “$3,600 in the case of a calendar year after 1950 and before 1955” in clause (ii) of subparagraph (B) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “(2) The term ‘quarter of coverage’ means a quarter in which the individual has been paid $50 or more in wages (except wages for agricultural labor paid after 1954) or for which he has been credited (as determined under section 212) with $100 or more of self-employment income, except that— “(i) no quarter after the quarter in which such individual died shall be a quarter of coverage, and no quarter any part of which was included in a period of disability (other than the initial quarter and the last quarter of such period) shall lie a quarter of coverage; “(ii) if the wages paid to any individual in any calendar year equal $3,000 in the case of a calendar year before 1951, or”. (b) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the amendment made by subsection (a) shall apply only in the case of monthly benefits under title II of the Social Security Act, and the lump-sum death payment, under section 202 of such Act, based on the wages and self-employment income of an individual— (A) who becomes entitled to benefits under section 202(a) or 223 of such Act on the basis of an application filed in or after the month in which this Act is enacted; or (B) who is (or would, but for the provisions of section 215(f)(6) of the Social Security Act, be) entitled to a recomputation of his primary insurance amount under section 215(f)(2)(A) of such Act on the basis of an application filed in or after the month in which this Act is enacted; or (C) who dies without becoming entitled to benefits under section 202(a) or 223 of the Social Security Act, and (unless he dies a currently insured individual but not a fully insured individual (as those terms are defined in section 214 of such Act)) without leaving any individual entitled (on the basis of his wages and self-employment income) to survivor’s benefits or a lump-sum death payment under section 202 of such Act on the basis of an application filed prior to the month in which this Act is enacted; or (D) who dies in or after the month in which this Act is enacted and whose survivors are (or would, but for the provisions of sec-74 Stat. 950tion 215(f)(6) of the Social Security Act, be) entitled to a recomputation of his primary insurance amount under section 215(f)(4)(A) of such Act; or (E) who dies prior to the month in which this Act is enacted and (i) whose survivors are (or would, but for the provisions of section 215(f)(6) of the Social Security Act, be) entitled to a recomputation of his primary insurance amount under section 215(f)(4)(A) of such Act, and (ii) on the basis of whose wages and self-employment income no individual was entitled to survivor’s benefits or a lump-sum death payment under section 202 of such Act on the basis of an application filed prior to the month in which this Act is enacted (and no individual was entitled to such a benefit, without the filing of an application, for any month prior to the month in which this Act is enacted); or (F) who files an application for a recomputation under section 102(f)(2)(B) of the Social Security Amendments of 1954 in or after the month in which this Act is enacted and is (or would, but for the fact that such recomputation would not result in a higher primary insurance amount, be) entitled to have his primary insurance amount recomputed under such subparagraph; or (G) who dies and whose survivors are (or would, but for the fact that such recomputation would not result in a higher primary insurance amount for such individual, be) entitled, on the basis of an application filed in or after the month in which this Act is enacted, to have his primary insurance amount recomputed under section 102(f)(2)(B) of the Social Security Amendments of 1954. (2) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall also be applicable in the case of applications for disability determination under section 216(i) of the Social Security Act filed in or after the month in which this Act is enacted. (3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subsection, in the case of any individual who would not be a fully insured individual under section 214(a) of the Social Security Act except for the enactment of this section, no benefits shall be payable on the basis of his wages and self-employment income for any month prior to the month in which this Act is enacted.