---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 404.373"
title: "20"
number: "404.373"
heading: "Parent's benefit amounts."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/404.373"
---

# §404.373. Parent's benefit amounts.


Your parent's monthly benefit before any reduction that may be made as explained in [§ 404.304](/cfr/20/404.304.md), is figured in one of the following ways:

- (a) **One parent entitled.** Your parent's monthly benefit is equal to 82 1/2 percent of the insured person's primary insurance amount if you are the only parent entitled to benefits on his or her earnings record.
- (b) **More than one parent entitled.** Your parent's monthly benefit is equal to 75 percent of the insured person's primary insurance amount if there is another parent entitled to benefits on his or her earnings record.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 202, 203(a) and (b), 205(a), 216, 223, 225, and 702(a)(5) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 402, 403(a) and (b), 405(a), 416, 423, 425, and 902(a)(5)).

### Source

Source: 44 FR 34481, June 15, 1979, unless otherwise noted.