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42 U.S.C. § 429 — Benefits in case of members of uniformed services

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42 U.S.C. § 429 — Benefits in case of members of uniformed services

For purposes of determining entitlement to and the amount of any monthly benefit for any month after December 1972, or entitlement to and the amount of any lump-sum death payment in case of a death after such month, payable under this subchapter on the basis of the wages and self-employment income of any individual, and for purposes of [section 416(i)(3) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section416/i/3&num=0&edition=prelim), such individual, if he was paid wages for service as a member of a uniformed service (as defined in [section 410(m) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section410/m&num=0&edition=prelim)) which was included in the term “employment” as defined in [section 410(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section410/a&num=0&edition=prelim) as a result of the provisions of section 410(l)(1)(A) of this title, shall be deemed to have been paid— (1) in each calendar quarter occurring after 1956 and before 1978 in which he was paid such wages, additional wages of $300, and (2) in each calendar year occurring after 1977 and before 2002 in which he was paid such wages, additional wages of $100 for each $300 of such wages, up to a maximum of $1,200 of additional wages for any calendar year.

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For purposes of determining entitlement to and the amount of any monthly benefit for any month after December 1972, or entitlement to and the amount of any lump-sum death payment in case of a death after such month, payable under this subchapter on the basis of the wages and self-employment income of any individual, and for purposes of [section 416(i)(3) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section416/i/3&num=0&edition=prelim), such individual, if he was paid wages for service as a member of a uniformed service (as defined in [section 410(m) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section410/m&num=0&edition=prelim)) which was included in the term “employment” as defined in [section 410(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section410/a&num=0&edition=prelim) as a result of the provisions of section 410(l)(1)(A) of this title, shall be deemed to have been paid— (1) in each calendar quarter occurring after 1956 and before 1978 in which he was paid such wages, additional wages of $300, and (2) in each calendar year occurring after 1977 and before 2002 in which he was paid such wages, additional wages of $100 for each $300 of such wages, up to a maximum of $1,200 of additional wages for any calendar year.

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42 U.S.C. § 418 — Voluntary agreements for coverage of State and local employees

**(a) Purpose of agreement** (1) The Commissioner of Social Security shall, at the request of any State, enter into an agreement with such State for the purpose of extending the insurance system established by this subchapter to services performed by individuals as employees of such State or any political subdivision thereof. Each such agreement shall contain such provisions, not inconsistent with the provisions of this section, as the State may request. (2) Notwithstanding [section 410(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section410/a&num=0&edition=prelim), for the purposes of this subchapter the term “employment” includes any service included under an agreement entered into under this section. **(b) Definitions** For the purposes of this section— (1) The term “State” does not include the District of Columbia, Guam, or American Samoa. (2) The term “political subdivision” includes an instrumentality of (A) a State, (B) one or more political subdivisions of a State, or (C) a State and one or more of its political subdivisions. (3) The term “employee” includes an officer of a State or political subdivision. (4) The term “retirement system” means a pension, annuity, retirement, or similar fund or system established by a State or by a political subdivision thereof. (5) The term “coverage group” means (A) employees of the State other than those engaged in performing service in connection with a proprietary function; (B) employees of a political subdivision of a State other than those engaged in performing service in connection with a proprietary function; (C) employees of a State engaged in performing service in connection with a single proprietary function; or (D) employees of a political subdivision of a State engag

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26 U.S.C. § 3101 — Rate of tax

**(a) Old-age, survivors, and disability insurance** In addition to other taxes, there is hereby imposed on the income of every individual a tax equal to 6.2 percent of the wages (as defined in section 3121(a)) received by the individual with respect to employment (as defined in section 3121(b)). **(b) Hospital insurance** (1) **In general** — In addition to the tax imposed by the preceding subsection, there is hereby imposed on the income of every individual a tax equal to 1.45 percent of the wages (as defined in section 3121(a)) received by him with respect to employment (as defined in section 3121(b)). (2) **Additional tax** — In addition to the tax imposed by paragraph (1) and the preceding subsection, there is hereby imposed on every taxpayer (other than a corporation, estate, or trust) a tax equal to 0.9 percent of wages which are received with respect to employment (as defined in section 3121(b)) during any taxable year beginning after December 31, 2012, and which are in excess of— (A) in the case of a joint return, $250,000, (B) in the case of a married taxpayer (as defined in section 7703) filing a separate return, ½ of the dollar amount determined under subparagraph (A), and (C) in any other case, $200,000. **(c) Relief from taxes in cases covered by certain international agreements** During any period in which there is in effect an agreement entered into pursuant to section 233 of the Social Security Act with any foreign country, wages received by or paid to an individual shall be exempt from the taxes imposed by this section to the extent that such wages are subject under such agreement exclusively to the laws applicable to the social security system of such foreign country.

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42 U.S.C. § 401 — Trust Funds

**(a) Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund** There is hereby created on the books of the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the “Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund”. The Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund shall consist of the securities held by the Secretary of the Treasury for the Old-Age Reserve Account and the amount standing to the credit of the Old-Age Reserve Account on the books of the Treasury on January 1, 1940, which securities and amount the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transfer to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, and, in addition, such gifts and bequests as may be made as provided in subsection (i)(1), and such amounts as may be appropriated to, or deposited in, the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund as hereinafter provided. There is hereby appropriated to the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, and for each fiscal year thereafter, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, amounts equivalent to 100 per centum of— (1) the taxes (including interest, penalties, and additions to the taxes) received under subchapter A of chapter 9 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 (and covered into the Treasury) which are deposited into the Treasury by collectors of internal revenue before January 1, 1951; and (2) the taxes certified each month by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue as taxes received under subchapter A of chapter 9 of such Code which are deposited into the Treasury by collectors of internal revenue after December 31, 1950, and before January 1, 1953, with respect to assessments of such taxes made before January 1, 1951; and (3) the taxes imposed by

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42 U.S.C. § 417 — Benefits for veterans

**(a) Determination of benefits** (1) For purposes of determining entitlement to and the amount of any monthly benefit for any month after August 1950, or entitlement to and the amount of any lump-sum death payment in case of a death after such month, payable under this subchapter on the basis of the wages and self-employment income of any World War II veteran, and for purposes of [section 416(i)(3) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section416/i/3&num=0&edition=prelim), such veteran shall be deemed to have been paid wages (in addition to the wages, if any, actually paid to him) of $160 in each month during any part of which he served in the active military or naval service of the United States during World War II. This subsection shall not be applicable in the case of any monthly benefit or lump-sum death payment if— (A) a larger such benefit or payment, as the case may be, would be payable without its application; or (B) a benefit (other than a benefit payable in a lump sum unless it is a commutation of, or a substitute for, periodic payments) which is based, in whole or in part, upon the active military or naval service of such veteran during World War II is determined by any agency or wholly owned instrumentality of the United States (other than the Department of Veterans Affairs) to be payable by it under any other law of the United States or under a system established by such agency or instrumentality. The provisions of clause (B) of this paragraph shall not apply in the case of any monthly benefit or lump-sum death payment under this subchapter if its application would reduce by $0.50 or less the primary insurance amount (as computed under [section 415 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req

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26 U.S.C. § 3121 — Definitions

**(a) Wages** For purposes of this chapter, the term “wages” means all remuneration for employment, including the cash value of all remuneration (including benefits) paid in any medium other than cash; except that such term shall not include— (1) in the case of the taxes imposed by sections 3101(a) and 3111(a) that part of the remuneration which, after remuneration (other than remuneration referred to in the succeeding paragraphs of this subsection) equal to the contribution and benefit base (as determined under section 230 of the Social Security Act) with respect to employment has been paid to an individual by an employer during the calendar year with respect to which such contribution and benefit base is effective, is paid to such individual by such employer during such calendar year. If an employer (hereinafter referred to as successor employer) during any calendar year acquires substantially all the property used in a trade or business of another employer (hereinafter referred to as a predecessor), or used in a separate unit of a trade or business of a predecessor, and immediately after the acquisition employs in his trade or business an individual who immediately prior to the acquisition was employed in the trade or business of such predecessor, then, for the purpose of determining whether the successor employer has paid remuneration (other than remuneration referred to in the succeeding paragraphs of this subsection) with respect to employment equal to the contribution and benefit base (as determined under section 230 of the Social Security Act) to such individual during such calendar year, any remuneration (other than remuneration referred to in the succeeding paragraphs of this subsection) with respect to employment paid (or considered under this paragraph as h

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22 U.S.C. § 4056 — Creditable service

**(a) Applicability of civil service provisions** (1) 11 See Amendment of Section note below. Except as otherwise specified by law, all periods of civilian and military and naval service, and all other periods through the date of final separation of a participant from the Service that the Secretary of State determines would be creditable toward retirement under the Civil Service Retirement and Disability System (as determined in accordance with [section 8332 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section8332&num=0&edition=prelim)), shall be creditable for purposes of this part. Conversely, any such service performed after December 31, 1976, that would not be creditable under specified conditions under [section 8332 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section8332&num=0&edition=prelim), shall be excluded under this part under the same conditions. (2) The service of an individual who first becomes a participant on or after October 17, 1983, without any credit under this section for civilian service performed prior to October 1, 1982, shall include credit for: (A) each period of military or naval service performed before January 1, 1957, and (B) each period of military or naval service performed after December 31, 1956, and before the separation on which the entitlement to annuity under this part is based, only if a deposit (with interest if any is required) is made with respect to that period, as provided in [section 4045(e) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section4045/e&num=0&edition=prelim). (3) The service of an individual who first became a participant on or after October 17, 1983, with credit under this section for civilian s

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22 U.S.C. § 4067 — Compatibility between retirement systems

**(a) Civil Service and Foreign Service Retirement Systems** In order to maintain existing conformity between the Civil Service Retirement and Disability System under subchapter III of chapter 83 of title 5, and the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System, whenever a law of general applicability is enacted which— (1) affects the treatment of current or former participants, annuitants, or survivors under the Civil Service Retirement and Disability System; and (2) affects treatment which, immediately prior to the enactment of such law, was substantially identical to the treatment accorded to participants, former participants, annuitants, or survivors under the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System; such law shall be extended in accordance with subsection (b) to the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System so that it applies in like manner with respect to participants, former participants, annuitants, or survivors under that System. **(b) Regulations to implement prescribed by Executive order** The President shall by Executive order prescribe regulations to implement this section and may make such extension retroactive to a date no earlier than the effective date of the provision of law applicable to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability System. Any provision of an Executive order issued under this section shall modify, supersede, or render inapplicable, as the case may be, to the extent inconsistent therewith— (1) all provisions of law enacted prior to the effective date of that provision of the Executive order, and (2) any prior provision of an Executive order issued under this section. **(c) Federal Employees’ Retirement and Foreign Service Pension Systems** The President shall maintain, under the same conditions and in the same m

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42 U.S.C. § 415 — Computation of primary insurance amount

For the purposes of this subchapter— **(a) Primary insurance amount** (1) (A) The primary insurance amount of an individual shall (except as otherwise provided in this section) be equal to the sum of— (i) 90 percent of the individual’s average indexed monthly earnings (determined under subsection (b)) to the extent that such earnings do not exceed the amount established for purposes of this clause by subparagraph (B), (ii) 32 percent of the individual’s average indexed monthly earnings to the extent that such earnings exceed the amount established for purposes of clause (i) but do not exceed the amount established for purposes of this clause by subparagraph (B), and (iii) 15 percent of the individual’s average indexed monthly earnings to the extent that such earnings exceed the amount established for purposes of clause (ii), rounded, if not a multiple of $0.10, to the next lower multiple of $0.10, and thereafter increased as provided in subsection (i). (B) (i) For individuals who initially become eligible for old-age or disability insurance benefits, or who die (before becoming eligible for such benefits), in the calendar year 1979, the amount established for purposes of clause (i) and (ii) of subparagraph (A) shall be $180 and $1,085, respectively. (ii) For individuals who initially become eligible for old-age or disability insurance benefits, or who die (before becoming eligible for such benefits), in any calendar year after 1979, each of the amounts so established shall equal the product of the corresponding amount established with respect to the calendar year 1979 under clause (i) of this subparagraph and the quotient obtained by dividing— (I) the national average wage index (as defined in [section 409(k)(1) of this title]

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5 U.S.C. § 8332 — Creditable service

**(a)** The total service of an employee or Member is the full years and twelfth parts thereof, excluding from the aggregate the fractional part of a month, if any. **(b)** The service of an employee shall be credited from the date of original employment to the date of separation on which title to annuity is based in the civilian service of the Government. Except as provided in paragraph (13) 11 So in original. Probably should be paragraph “(14)”. of this subsection, credit may not be allowed for a period of separation from the service in excess of 3 calendar days. The service includes— (1) employment as a substitute in the postal field service; (2) service in the Pan American Sanitary Bureau; (3) subject to sections 8334(c) and 8339(i) of this title, service performed before July 10, 1960, as an employee of a county committee established under [section 590h(b) of title 16](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title16-section590h/b&num=0&edition=prelim) or of a committee or an association of producers described by [section 610(b) of title 7](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title7-section610/b&num=0&edition=prelim); (4) service as a student-employee as defined by [section 5351 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5351&num=0&edition=prelim) only if he later becomes subject to this subchapter; (5) a period of satisfactory service of a volunteer or volunteer leader under chapter 34 of title 22 only if he later becomes subject to this subchapter; (6) employment under [section 709 of title 32](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title32-section709&num=0&edition=prelim) or any prior corresponding provision of law; (7) a period of service of

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50 U.S.C. § 2082 — Prior service credit

**(a) In general** A participant may, subject to the provisions of this section, include in the participant’s period of service— (1) civilian service in the Government before becoming a participant that would be creditable toward retirement under subchapter III of chapter 83 of title 5 (as determined under section 8332(b) of such title); and (2) honorable active service in the Armed Forces before the date of the separation upon which eligibility for an annuity is based, or honorable active service in the Regular or Reserve Corps 11 See Change of Name note below. of the Public Health Service after June 30, 1960, or as a commissioned officer of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration after June 30, 1961. **(b) Limitations** (1) **In general** — Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), the total service of any participant shall exclude— (A) any period of civilian service on or after October 1, 1982, for which retirement deductions or deposits have not been made, (B) any period of service for which a refund of contributions has been made, or (C) any period of service for which contributions were not transferred pursuant to subsection (c)(1); unless the participant makes a deposit to the fund in an amount equal to the percentages of basic pay received for such service as specified in the table contained in [section 8334(c) of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section8334/c&num=0&edition=prelim), together with interest computed in accordance with section 8334(e) of such title. The deposit may be made in one or more installments (including by allotment from pay), as determined by the Director. (2) **Effect of retirement deductions not made** — If a participant has not paid a deposit for civilian servic

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