[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: 20CFR404.271] [Page 88] 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. 404.271 When automatic cost-of-living increases apply. Besides increases in the primary insurance amounts of current beneficiaries, automatic cost-of-living increases also apply to-- (a) The benefits of certain uninsured people age 72 and older (see Sec. 404.380); (b) The special minimum primary insurance amounts (described in Sec. Sec. 404.260 through 404.261) of current and future beneficiaries; (c) The primary insurance amounts of people who after 1978 become eligible for benefits or die before becoming eligible (beginning with December of the year they become eligible or die), although certain limitations are placed on the automatic adjustment of the frozen minimum primary insurance amount (as described in Sec. 404.277); and (d) The maximum family benefit amounts in column V of the benefit table in appendix III. [47 FR 30734, July 15, 1982, as amended at 51 FR 12603, Apr. 14, 1986]