Special Extra Earnings for Military Service

[Gregable]

Military service between 1957 and 2001 can result in up to $1,200 per year being added to one's earnings record prior to the calculation of AIME: https://www.ssa.gov/benefits/retirement/planner/military.html ssa.tools does not currently account for this.

User reports indicate that the earnings record in ssa.gov's online report does not include the extra $1,200 per year nor is there anywhere obvious from the website where one can find these data points to enter. Instead the user would likely need to input which quarters of which years were periods of active duty.

For 1978-2001, the user would also need to indicate the amount of active duty pay. Given that the maximum benefit for these years would be capped after a pay of $3,600, it may be "close enough" to just prompt the user for the time periods and assume that the pay was $3,600 or more if the earnings were $3,600 or more in that year. That would avoid the need for the user to find and enter the values from 40 year old pay stubs at the cost of being less accurate in a small percentage of cases.

[Gregable]

Not actually fixed, just added some text.