benefits in case of members of the uniformed services

benefits in case of members of the uniformed services Sec. 106. Title II of the Social Security Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: “benefits in case of members of the uniformed services “Sec. 229. (a) For purposes of determining entitlement to and the amount of any monthly benefit for any month after December 1967, or entitlement to and the amount of any lump-sum death payment in case of a death after such month, payable under this title on the basis of the wages and self-employment income of any individual, and for purposes of section 216 (i)(3), such individual shall be deemed to have been paid, in each calendar quarter occurring after 1967 in which he was paid wages for service as a member of a uniformed service (as defined in section 210(m)) which was included in the term ‘employment’ as defined in section 210(a) as a result of the provisions or sec-81 Stat. 834tion 210(1), wages (in addition to the wages actually paid to him for such service) of— “(1) $100 if the wages actually paid to him in such quarter for such services were $100 or less, “(2) $200 if the wages actually paid to him in such quarter for such services were more than $100 but not more than $200, or “(3) $300 in any other case. “(b) There are authorized to be appropriated to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund, and the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund annually, as benefits under this title and part A of title XVIII are paid after December 1967, such sums as the Secretary determines to be necessary to meet (1) the additional costs, resulting from subsection (a), of such benefits (including lump-sum death payments), (2) the additional administrative expenses resulting therefrom, and (3) any loss in interest to such trust funds resulting from the payment of such amounts. Such additional costs shall be determined after any increases in such benefits arising from the application of section 217 have been made.”