Disability Insurance Reform Act of 1979

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Disability Insurance Reform Act of 1979 - Title I: Entitlement and Benefit Amount - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to set, for individuals who attain age 62 after 1978 and become entitled to disability benefits after August 1979, a limit of 80 percent of the individual's average indexed monthly earnings as the maximum amount of total title II benefits that may be paid for any month. Stipulates that this reduction shall not apply to reduce the monthly benefits of such individual or such individual's beneficiaries, on the basis of the wages and self-employment income of such individual, for any month following the month preceding the month in which such individual dies. Amends the procedure for computing the primary insurance amount of a disabled worker by stipulating that, in determining the number of benefit computation years, one year of low earnings shall be dropped for every five working years. Limits the maximum number of years which may be dropped to five. Title II: Elimination of Disincentives to Engage in Substantial Gainful Activities - Eliminates the requirement that the 24 months which an individual must be disable…