V O
STAT.]
PUBLIC LAW 880-AUG. 1, 1956
first month for which she is so entitled (but not for any prior month) or for any later month occurring before the month in which she attains the age of sixt^-five, is entitled to a wife's insurance benefit to which paragraph (2) is applicable, the amount of such wife's insurance benefit for any month prior to the month in which she attains the age of sixty-five shall, in lieu of the reduction provided in paragraph (2), be reduced by the sum of— " (A) an amount equal to the amount by which such old-age insurance benefit for such month is reduced under paragraph (1), plus " (B) an amount equal to— " (i) the number equal to the number of months specified in clause (B) of paragraph (2), multiplied by "(ii) 25/36 of 1 per centum, and further multiplied by "(iii) the excess of such wife's insurance benefit prior to reduction under this subsection over the old-age insurance benefit prior to reduction under this subsection. "(4) I n the case of any woman who is or was entitled to a wife's insurance benefit to which paragraph (2) is applicable and who, for any month after the first month for which she is or was so entitled (but not for such first month or any earlier month) occurring before the month in which she attains the age of sixty-five, is entitled to an old-age insurance benefit, the amount of such old-age insurance benefit for any month prior to the month in which she attains the age of sixty-five shall, in lieu of the reduction provided in paragraph (1), be reduced by the sum of— " (A) an amount equal to the amount by which such wife's insurance benefit is reduced under paragraph (2) for such month (or, if she is not entitled to a wife's insurance benefit for such month, by an amount equal to the amount by which such benefit was reduced for the last month for which she was entitled thereto), plus " (B) if the old-age insurance benefit for such month prior to reduction under this subsection exceeds such wife's insurance benefit prior to reduction under this subsection, an amount equal to— " (i) the number equal to the number of months specified in clause (B) of paragraph (1), multiplied by " (ii) % of 1 per centum, and further multiplied by "(iii) the excess of such old-age insurance benefit over such wife's insurance benefit. . "(5) I n the case of any woman who is entitled to an old-age insurance benefit for the month in which she attains the age of sixtyfive or any month thereafter, such benefit for such month shall, if she was also entitled to such benefit for any one or more months prior to the month in which she attained the age of sixty-five and such benefit for any such prior month was reduced under paragraph (1) or (4), be reduced as provided in such paragraph, except that there shall be subtracted, from the number specified in clause (B) of such paragraph— " (A) the number equal to the number of months for which such benefit was reduced under such paragraph, but for which such benefit was subject to deductions under paragraph (1) or (2) of section 203(b), and except that, in the case of any such benefit reduced under paragraph (4), there also shall be subtracted from the number specified in clause (B) of paragraph (2), for the purpose of computing the amount referred to in clause (A) of paragraph (4)—
811
42 USC 403.
�
