In determining your entitlement to, and the amount of, your monthly benefit or lump-sum death payment based on your active service during the World War II period or the post-World War II period, and for establishing a period of disability as discussed in §§404.132 and 404.133, we add the (deemed) amount of $160 for each month during a part of which you were in the active service as described in §404.1312 or §404.1322. For example, if you were in active service from October 11, 1942, through August 10, 1943, we add the (deemed) amount of $160 for October 1942 and August 1943 as well as November 1942 through July 1943. The amount of wage credits that are added in a calendar year cannot cause the total amount credited to your earnings record to exceed the annual earnings limitation explained in §§404.1047 and 404.1096(b).
20 CFR § 404.1340
Wage credits for World War II and post-World War II veterans
February 18, 2021