[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: 20CFR404.260]

[Page 87]
 
                      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. 404.260  Special minimum primary insurance amounts.

    Regardless of the method we use to compute your primary insurance 
amount, if the special minimum primary insurance amount described in 
Sec. 404.261 is higher, then your benefits (and those of your 
dependents or survivors) will be based on the special minimum primary 
insurance amount. Special minimum primary insurance amounts are not 
based on a worker's average earnings, as are primary insurance amounts 
computed under other methods. Rather, the special minimum primary 
insurance amount is designed to provide higher benefits to people who 
worked for long periods in low-paid jobs covered by social security.