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65 and 72 because of work. The increase is effective for workers who reach 62 after 1978. The credit, which previously applied only to the worker’s benefit, will now be added to widows’ and widowers’ benefits beginning with June 1978.
—Reduces to 70 from the present 72 the age at which a worker’s earnings do not reduce benefits. The change is effective beginning in 1982.
—Changes the measure used to determine whether a person receives a quarter of coverage. Beginning with 1978, a worker will receive one quarter of coverage for each $250 of annual earnings up to a maximum of 4 quarters for annual earnings of $1,000 or more.
—Reduces from 20 to 10 years the length of time a marriage must have lasted for a divorced woman to get benefits on her former husband’s record. The change is effective beginning January 1979.
—Provides that benefits to a widow or widower who remarries after age 60 will not be reduced as they are under present law. The change is effective beginning January 1979.
These and the other changes made in the social security law will be described more fully in a leaflet that will soon be available at any social security office, Israel said.
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