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    <CFRTITLE>20</CFRTITLE>
    <CFRTITLETEXT>Employees' Benefits</CFRTITLETEXT>
    <VOL>2</VOL>
    <DATE>2004-04-01</DATE>
    <ORIGINALDATE>2004-04-01</ORIGINALDATE>
    <COVERONLY>false</COVERONLY>
    <TITLE>Publication of notice of increase.</TITLE>
    <GRANULENUM>404.276</GRANULENUM>
    <HEADING>Section 404.276</HEADING>
    <ANCESTORS>
      <PARENT HEADING="Title 20" SEQ="4">Employees' Benefits</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="CHAPTER III" SEQ="3">SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="PART 404" SEQ="2">FEDERAL OLD-AGE, SURVIVORS AND DISABILITY INSURANCE (1950- )</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="Subpart C" SEQ="1">Computing Primary Insurance Amounts</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="" SEQ="0">Cost-Of-Living Increases</PARENT>
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    <SECTNO>§ 404.276</SECTNO>
    <SUBJECT>Publication of notice of increase.</SUBJECT>

    <P>When we determine that an automatic cost-of-living increase is due, we publish in the <E T="04">Federal Register</E> within 45 days of the end of the measuring period used in finding the amount of the increase—</P>
    <P>(a) The fact that an increase is due;</P>
    <P>(b) The amount of the increase;</P>
    <P>(c) The increased special minimum primary insurance amounts; and</P>
    <P>(d) The range of increased maximum family benefits that corresponds to the range of increased special minimum primary insurance amounts.</P>
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