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71. Q. When the primary insurance benefit is to be subtracted only in part from the Pilots' System annuity how large is the part to be subtracted?
    A. The part of the benefit to be subtracted is to be equal to what that benefit would be if air line employer wages credited under Social Security had been the total of such credited wages, except that such part is not to be less than the fraction which the credited wages from air lines is of total wages credited under Social Security.
72. Q. Maybe I understand all of this and maybe I don't. It would help if you would work out a few examples. What information is necessary to work out some examples?
    A. Except for the limit on creditable wages, the process of working out a primary insurance benefit is exactly the same as the process of calculating the insurance amount for an air line pilot. (See Questions 36 to 42.) The information required to work out examples therefore includes: (a) date of birth - elapsed time begins to run from the quarter in which the pilot is 22 or with the first quarter of 1937, whichever is later; (b) wages paid to the pilot after 1936 by air line employers - not over $3000 in a calendar year is creditable; (c) wages paid to the pilot after 1936 by employers other than air line, same limit; (d) the number of years in which more than $200 was paid to the pilot; (e) the date of retirement on primary insurance benefit. 
73. Q. Please work out the following examples. In these examples it can be assumed that the pilot was paid $3000 or more in wages