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Under the Company plans the company annuity is supplemented by the social security benefit. Is this true of the ALPA Plan? For a pilot on retirement annuity, the answer is "NO." If he gets $200 from the time he's 45, at 65 he'll still get $200. Most of the $200 will come from the pilots' plan but a little part will come from Social Security. How much will come from the social security system and how much from the ALPA plan? If you never work except as an air pilot and your social security benefit is therefore based entirely on pilot pay, all of that benefit would be subtracted from the $200. For example, suppose you were 25 years old on January 1, 1937, when the Social Security and Old Age Insurance System began to operate. Suppose, that you worked as an air line pilot exactly 20 years and got $3000 or more each year, that you were then disqualified and did not work any more as an employee. At 65, you would be entitled to $33 per month. Beginning at 65, the pilot would draw $167 under the ALPA plan and $33 from social security. Suppose the pilot, after he is disqualified, gets another job which is under social security and gets $3000 or more each year for another 20 years, and then retires at 65. He will get $56 per month from social security, but only the $33 is set off against his $200 under the ALPA plan so his total retirement income is $223. When the fellow in the preceding question got another job did his $200 per month stop? No. The $200 is payable for life except under two conditions: (1) the recipient takes any job on an air line; (2) the disqualification is removed and the pilot is free to go back to flying. 15