Sec. 3. Deemed wages for caregivers of dependent relatives
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Title II of the Social Security Act is amended by adding after section 234 ( 42 U.S.C. 434 ) the following new section: For purposes of this section— The term qualifying month means, in connection with an individual, a month during which such individual was engaged for not less than 80 hours in providing care to a dependent relative without monetary compensation. Such term does not include any month ending after the date on which such individual attains retirement age (as defined in section 216(l)).
The term dependent relative means, in connection with an individual— a child, grandchild, niece, or nephew (of such individual or such individual’s spouse or domestic partner), or a child to which the individual or the individual’s spouse or domestic partner is standing in loco parentis, who is under the age of 12, or a child, grandchild, niece, or nephew (of such individual or such individual’s spouse or domestic partner), a child to which the individual or the individual’s spouse or domestic partner is standing in loco parentis, a parent, aunt, or uncle (of such individual or his or her spouse or domestic partner), or such individual’s spouse or domestic partner, if such child, grandchild, niece, nephew, parent, aunt, uncle, spouse, or domestic partner is a chronically dependent individual.
The term chronically dependent individual means an individual who— is dependent on a daily basis on verbal reminding, physical cueing, supervision, or other assistance provided to the individual by another person in the performance of at least two of the activities of daily living (described in subparagraph (B)), and without the assistance described in clause (i), could not perform such activities of daily living. The activities of daily living referred to in subparagraph
(A)are the following: Eating. Bathing. Dressing. Toileting. Transferring in and out of a bed or in and out of a chair. For purposes of determining entitlement to and the amount of any monthly benefit for any month after December 2015, or entitlement to and the amount of any lump-sum death payment in the case of a death after such month, payable under this title on the basis of the wages and self-employment income of any individual, and for purposes of section 216(i)(3), such individual shall be deemed to have been paid during each qualifying month (in addition to wages or self-employment income actually paid to or derived by such individual during such month) at an amount per month equal to— in the case of a qualifying month during which no wages or self-employment income were actually paid to or derived by such individual, 50 percent of the national average wage index (as defined in section 209(k)(1)) for the second calendar year preceding the calendar year in which such month occurs; and in the case of any other qualifying month, the excess of the amount determined under clause
(i)over 1/2 of the wages or self-employment income actually paid to or derived by such individual during such month. In any case in which there are more than 60 qualifying months for an individual, only the last 60 of such months shall be taken into account for purposes of this section. Paragraph
(1)shall not be applicable in the case of any monthly benefit or lump-sum death payment if a larger such benefit or payment, as the case may be, would be payable without its application. A qualifying month shall not be taken into account under this section with respect to an individual unless such individual provides the Commissioner of Social Security with the name and identifying information of the dependent relative with respect to whom the individual was engaged in providing care during such month, and other information as the Commissioner may require to verify the status of the dependent relative, on whatever application may be required to obtain benefits under this section. . Section 209(k)(1) of such Act ( 42 U.S.C. 409(k)(1) ) is amended— by striking and before 230(b)(2) ; and by inserting and 235(b)(1)(A)(i), after 1977), .
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