disability benefits affected by receipt of workmen’s compensation

disability benefits affected by receipt of workmen’s compensation Sec. 159. (a) (1) The last sentence of section 224(a) of the Social Security Act is amended by inserting after “his wages and self-employment income” where it first appears in clause (B) the following: “(computed without regard to the limitations specified in sections 209(a) and 211(b)(1))”. (2) Section 224(a) of such Act is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following: “In any case where an individual’s wages and self-employment income reported to the Secretary for a calendar year reach the limitations specified in sections 209(a) and 211(b)(1), the Secretary under regulations shall estimate the total of such wages and self-employment income for purposes of clause (B) of the preceding sentence on the basis of such information as may be available to him indicating the extent (if any) by which such wages and self-employment income exceed such limitations.” (b) (1) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply only with respect to monthly benefits under title II of the Social Security Act for months after January 1968. 81 Stat. 870 (2) For purposes of any redetermination which is made under section 224(f) of the Social Security Act in the case of benefits subject to reduction under section 224 of such Act, where such reduction as first computed was effective with respect to benefits for the month in which this Act is enacted or a prior month, the amendments made by subsection (a) of this section shall also be deemed to have applied in the initial determination of the “average current earnings” of the individual whose wages and self-employment income are involved.