Old-Age Insurance Benefits: Eligibility

Old-Age Insurance Benefits: Eligibility. Every person who: (a) Is a fully insured individual; (b) Has attained age: (1) Sixty years on or before June 30, 1978; (2) Sixty and one-half years in the period beginning July 1, 1978, and ending February 28, 1979; (3) Sixty-one years in the period beginning March 1, 1979, and ending October 31, 1979; (4) Sixty-one and one-half years in the period beginning November 1, 1979, and ending June 30, 1980; or (5) Sixty-two years on or after July 1, 1980; and (c) Has filed application for old-age insurance benefits shall be entitled to an old-age insurance benefit for each month beginning with the month of January 1976, for which both subsections (a) and (b) of this section are satisfied and ending with the month preceding the month in which he dies, subject to the earnings test as provided in 3 CMC § 3312. Source: DL 5-12, § 1; amended by DL 5-25, § 3; PL 2-6, § 6. Commission Comment: The Commission inserted a colon in place of a dash in the heading of this section to conform the heading to the style used elsewhere in the code. According to PL 3-90, § 7(a) (reprinted in the preface material, prior to title 1), “section headings . . . do not in any manner affect the scope, meaning, or intent of the provisions of this Code.”