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- Primary Insurance Amount (PIA) as Basic Figure
- How are the Average Monthly Earnings (AME) or the Average Indexed Monthly Earnings (AIME) computed?
- When is the usual computation formula used?
- Computation Years Defined
- Elapsed Years Defined
- What are base years?
- Determining the PIA
- The Simplified Old-Start Formula
- When can the simplified old-start formula be used?
- Figuring the AME Under the Simplified Old-Start Formula
- How is the Primary Insurance Benefit (PIB) computed under the simplified old-start formula?
- Are established periods of disability excluded when benefits are computed?
- Figuring the PIA Under the 1990 Consolidated Methods
- What is included as "total earnings" when computing the AME or AIME?
- What are the maximum earnings that can be counted for any calendar year for computing AME or AIME?
- Allocation of Self-Employment Income
- Elimination of the Minimum Benefit
- Special Minimum PIA
- Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) - Modified Benefit Formula to Determine the PIA for Workers with Pensions from Non-covered Employment
- Cost-of-Living Increases
- Delayed Retirement Credit
- Recomputation of the PIA
- The Automatic Recomputation
- Reduction of Benefit Rate
- Basic Reduction Formulas
- How does SSA compute the number of reduction months?
- Disability Insurance Benefit Reduced for Age
- How is the reduction amount computed?
- Adjustment of Reduction Factor at FRA
- Certificate of Election for Husband or Wife Between Ages 62 and FRA-Child "In Care"
- Maximum Monthly Benefits Payable on One Earnings Record
- Adjustment of Individual Benefit Rates Because of Family Maximum
- How Adjustment for Family Maximum is Figured
- Entitlement to More Than One Social Security Benefit at the Same Time
- Entitlement to Retirement or Disability Insurance Benefits and Another Benefit
- What happens if a child is entitled to benefits on more than one earnings record at the same time?
- When is a child automatically entitled on a second earnings record?
- Family Maximum When Child is Entitled on More Than One Earnings Record
- Rounding of Benefit Rates
- How to compute your benefits.