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[CITE: 42USC1382f]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                       CHAPTER 7--SOCIAL SECURITY
 
   SUBCHAPTER XVI--SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME FOR AGED, BLIND, AND 
                                DISABLED
 
                    Part A--Determination of Benefits
 
Sec. 1382f. Cost-of-living adjustments in benefits


(a) Increase of dollar amounts

    Whenever benefit amounts under subchapter II of this chapter are 
increased by any percentage effective with any month as a result of a 
determination made under section 415(i) of this title--
        (1) each of the dollar amounts in effect for such month under 
    subsections (a)(1)(A), (a)(2)(A), (b)(1), and (b)(2) of section 1382 
    of this title, and subsection (a)(1)(A) of section 211 of Public Law 
    93-66, as specified in such subsections or as previously increased 
    under this section, shall be increased by the amount (if any) by 
    which--
            (A) the amount which would have been in effect for such 
        month under such subsection but for the rounding of such amount 
        pursuant to paragraph (2), exceeds
            (B) the amount in effect for such month under such 
        subsection; and

        (2) the amount obtained under paragraph (1) with respect to each 
    subsection shall be further increased by the same percentage by 
    which benefit amounts under subchapter II of this chapter are 
    increased for such month, or, if greater (in any case where the 
    increase under subchapter II of this chapter was determined on the 
    basis of the wage increase percentage rather than the CPI increase 
    percentage), the percentage by which benefit amounts under 
    subchapter II of this chapter would be increased for such month if 
    the increase had been determined on the basis of the CPI increase 
    percentage, (and rounded, when not a multiple of $12, to the next 
    lower multiple of $12), effective with respect to benefits for 
    months after such month.

(b) Publication in Federal Register of new dollar amounts

    The new dollar amounts to be in effect under section 1382 of this 
title and under section 211 of Public Law 93-66 by reason of subsection 
(a) of this section shall be published in the Federal Register together 
with, and at the same time as, the material required by section 
415(i)(2)(D) of this title to be published therein by reason of the 
determination involved.

(c) Additional increases

    Effective July 1, 1983--
        (1) each of the dollar amounts in effect under subsections 
    (a)(1)(A) and (b)(1) of section 1382 of this title, as previously 
    increased under this section, shall be increased by $240 (and the 
    dollar amount in effect under subsection (a)(1)(A) of section 211 of 
    Public Law 93-66, as previously so increased, shall be increased by 
    $120); and
        (2) each of the dollar amounts in effect under subsections 
    (a)(2)(A) and (b)(2) of section 1382 of this title, as previously 
    increased under this section, shall be increased by $360.

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XVI, Sec. 1617, as added Pub. L. 93-368, 
Sec. 6(b), Aug. 7, 1974, 88 Stat. 421; amended Pub. L. 97-248, title I, 
Sec. 182(a), Sept. 3, 1982, 96 Stat. 404; Pub. L. 98-21, title IV, 
Sec. 401, Apr. 20, 1983, 97 Stat. 138.)

                       References in Text

    Section 211 of Public Law 93-66, referred to in subsecs. (a)(1), 
(b), and (c)(1), is section 211 of Pub. L. 93-66, title II, July 9, 
1973, 87 Stat. 154, as amended, which is set out as a note under section 
1382 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1983--Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 98-21, Sec. 401(b), inserted provision 
that the amount obtained under par. (1) with respect to each subsection 
shall be further increased by the percentage by which benefit amounts 
under subchapter II of this chapter would be increased for such month if 
the increase had been determined on the basis of the CPI increase 
percentage, if greater, in any case where the increase under subchapter 
II of this chapter was determined on the basis of the wage increase 
percentage rather than the CPI increase percentage.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 98-21, Sec. 401(a)(2), substituted ``subsection 
(a) of this subsection'' for ``this section''.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 98-21, Sec. 401(a)(1), added subsec. (c).
    1982--Pub. L. 97-248 redesignated existing provisions as subsec. 
(a), revised method of computation into pars. (1) and (2) and among 
other changes increased base for rounding-off from a multiple of $1.20 
to a multiple of $12.00, and struck out provisions relating to 
publication of increased dollar amounts in the Federal Register, and 
added subsec. (b).


                    Effective Date of 1982 Amendment

    Section 182(b) of Pub. L. 97-248 provided that: ``The amendment made 
by this section [amending this section] shall become effective on 
October 1, 1982.''


      Cost-of-Living Increases; Cost-of-Living Computation Quarter 
                             Determinations

    Payment of increased benefits under program covered in subchapter II 
of this chapter, see section 1 of Pub. L. 98-604, set out as a note 
under section 415 of this title.


                 Application to Northern Mariana Islands

    For applicability of this section to the Northern Mariana Islands, 
see section 502(a)(1) of the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of 
America and Proc. No. 4534, Oct. 24, 1977, 42 F.R. 6593, set out as 
notes under section 1801 of Title 48, Territories and Insular 
Possessions.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 1382, 1382g of this title.
