[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: 20CFR404.251]

[Page 86]
 
                      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. 404.251  Subsequent entitlement to benefits less than 12 months 
after entitlement to disability benefits ended.

    (a) Disability before 1979; second entitlement after 1978. In this 
situation, we compute your second-entitlement primary insurance amount 
by selecting the highest of the following:
    (1) The primary insurance amount to which you were entitled when you 
last received a benefit, increased by any automatic cost-of-living or ad 
hoc increases in primary insurance amounts that took effect since then;
    (2) The primary insurance amount resulting from a recomputation of 
your primary insurance amount, if one is possible; or
    (3) The primary insurance amount computed for you as of the time of 
your second entitlement under any method for which you are qualified at 
that time, including the average-indexed-monthly-earnings method if the 
previous period of disability is disregarded.
    (b) Disability and second entitlement after 1978. In this situation, 
we compute your second-entitlement primary insurance amount by selecting 
the highest of the following:
    (1) The primary insurance amount to which you were entitled when you 
last received a benefit, increased by any automatic cost-of-living or ad 
hoc increases in primary insurance amount that took effect since then;
    (2) The primary insurance amount resulting from a recomputation of 
your primary insurance amount, if one is possible (this recomputation 
may be under the average-indexed-monthly-earnings method only); or
    (3) The primary insurance amount computed for you as of the time of 
your second entitlement under any method (including an old-start method) 
for which you are qualifed at that time.
    (c) Disability before 1986; second entitlement after 1985. When 
applying the rule in paragraph (b)(3) of this section, we must consider 
your receipt of a monthly pension based on noncovered employment. (See 
Sec. 404.213). However, we will disregard your monthly pension if you 
were previously entitled to disability benefits before 1986 and in any 
of the 12 months before your second entitlement.

[47 FR 30734, July 15, 1982, as amended at 52 FR 47918, Dec. 17, 1987]