[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR404.240]

[Page 82-83]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
               CHAPTER III--SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 404_FEDERAL OLD-AGE, SURVIVORS AND DISABILITY INSURANCE (1950	 )
--Table of Contents
 
              Subpart C_Computing Primary Insurance Amounts
 
Sec. 404.240  Old-start method--general.

    If you had all or substantially all your social security earnings 
before 1951, your primary insurance amount computed under the ``1977 
simplified old-start'' method may be higher than any other primary 
insurance amount computed for you under any other

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method for which you are eligible. As explained in Sec. 404.242, if you 
reach age 62 after 1978, your primary insurance amount computed under 
the old-start method is used, for purposes of the guaranteed alternative 
described in Sec. 404.230, if the old-start primary insurance amount is 
higher than the one found under the average-monthly-wage method. We may 
use a modified computation, as explained in Sec. 404.243, if you are 
entitled to a pension based on your employment which was not covered by 
Social Security.

[47 FR 30734, July 15, 1982, as amended at 52 FR 47917, Dec. 17, 1987]