Pub. L. 90-257, tit. I, sec. 107

Sec. 107. All pensions under section 6 of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937, and all annuities under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1935, are increased as provided in that part of section 3(a)(2) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937 which precedes the provisos (deeming for this purpose (in the case of a pension) the monthly compensation to be the earnings which would be used to compute the basic amount if the pensioner were to die); joint and survivor annuities shall be computed under section 3(a) of the Railroad Retirement Act and reduced by the percentage determined in accordance with the election of such annuity; all survivor annuities deriving from joint and survivor annuities under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937 in cases where the employee died before the month following the month in which the increases in annuities provided by section 104(a) of this Act are effective are. increased by the same amount they would have been increased by this Act if the employee from whose joint and survivor annuity the survivor annuity is derived had been alive during all of the month in which the increases in annuities provided by section 104(a) of this Act are effective; and all widows and widowers’ insurance annuities which began to accrue before the month following the month in which the increases in annuities provided by section 104(a) of this Act are effective and which, in accordance with the proviso in section 5(a) or section 5(b) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1937, are payable in the amount of the spouse’s annuity to which the widow or widower was entitled are increased by the amount by which the spouse’s annuity would have been increased by this Act had the individual from whom the annuity is derived been alive during all of the month in which the increases in annuities provided by section 104(a) of this Act are effective: Provided, however, That in eases where the individual entitled to such a pension or annuity (other than an individual who has made a joint and survivor election) is entitled to a benefit under title II of the Social Security Act, the additional amount payable by reason of this subsection shall be reduced by 11.5 per centum of such benefit (disregarding any increases in such benefit based on recomputations other than for the correction of errors after such reduction is first applied and any increases derived from legislation enacted after the Social Security Amendments of 1967): And provided further, That (i) such an annuity under the Railroad Retirement Act of 1935 or a pension shall be increased by not less than $10, (ii) such a survivor annuity derived from a joint and survivor annuity shall be increased by not less than $5, and (iii) such a widow’s or widower’s annuity in an amount formerly received as a spouse’s annuity shall be increased by not less than $5, but not to an amount above the maximum of the spouse’s annuity payable in the month in which the increases in annuities provided by section 104(a) of this Act are effective.