A bill to amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 5-month waiting period for disability benefits, to repeal the earnings test, to provide widow's and widower's benefits at age 50 without regard to disability to permit adopted children to qualify for benefits without regard to time of adoption, to provide for the issuance of duplicate benefit checks where the initial checks are lost or delayed, to provide for expedited benefit payments to disablity beneficiaries, and to eliminate the workmen's compensation offset, and to eliminate the 24-month waiting period for disability beneficiaries under the medicare program.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Eliminates the five month waiting period required pursuant to title II of the Social Security Act before an eligible individual may receive Social Security disability insurance benefits. Redefines the term "period of disability" by eliminating the requirement that such disability be of five months duration. Repeals the authority of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to deduct Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance benefits payable to beneficiaries under the Social Security Act on account of wages or other compensation received by such beneficiaries. Entitles otherwise eligible widowers, widows, and surviving divorced wives to Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance benefits at age 50 without regard to disability, such benefits to be payable until such person remarries, dies, or becomes entitled to an old-age insurance benefit equal to or exceeding the primary insurance amount of such person's deceased spouse. Entitles the otherwise eligible adopted child of a deceased old-age or disability beneficiary to a child's insurance benefit without regard to whether such child was living with, and receiving at least one-half of his support from, such deceased…