coverage (as so defined), the percent specified in the 
applicable subdivision of subparagraph (E)(ii) shall 
(if such percent is smaller than the applicable per-
cent specified in the following table) be deemed to be 
the applicable percent specified in the following 
table: 
‘‘If the number of the 
individual’s years of 
The applicable 
coverage (as so defined) is: 
percent is: 
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45. 
‘‘(ii) For purposes of clause (i), the term ‘year of cov-
erage’ shall have the meaning provided in paragraph 
(1)(C)(ii), except that the reference to ‘15 percent’ therein 
shall be deemed to be a reference to ‘25 percent’. 
‘‘(H) An individual’s primary insurance amount de-
termined under this paragraph shall be deemed to be com-
puted under paragraph (1) of this subsection for the pur-
pose of applying other provisions of this title. 
‘‘(I) This paragraph shall not apply in the case of 
an individual whose eligibility for old-age or disability in-
surance benefits is based on an agreement concluded pur-
suant to section 233 or an individual who on January 1, 
1984— 
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‘‘(i) is an employee performing service to which 
social security coverage is extended on that date 
solely by reason of the amendments made by section 
101 of the Social Security Amendments of 1983; or 
‘‘(ii) is an employee of a nonprofit organization 
which (on December 31, 1983) did not have in effect 
a waiver certificate under section 3121(k) of the In-
ternal Revenue Code of 1954 and to the employees 
of which social security coverage is extended on that 
date solely by reason of the amendments made by 
section 102 of the Social Security Amendments of 
1983, unless social security coverage had previously 
extended to service performed by such individual as 
an employee of that organization under a waiver cer-
tificate which was subsequently (prior to December 
31, 1983) terminated.’’. 
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(A) Section 215(d)(3) of such Act (42 
U.S.C. 415(d)(3)) is amended— 
(i) by striking ‘‘subsection (a)(7)(C)’’ 
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘sub-
section (a)(7)(F)’’; 
(ii) by striking ‘‘subparagraph (E)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘subparagraph (I)’’; and 
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