TN 7 (11-24)

DI 60075.055 Promoting Opportunity Demonstration (POD) Benefit Rate Increase (BRI)

SSA performs a BRI run, usually each December, to update Title II benefits by applying a cost of living adjustment (COLA) to the primary insurance amount (PIA) and the monthly benefit amount (MBA). A POD participant whose benefits were in offset during the BRI run will not get the full COLA increase because SSA applies the COLA to the offset MBA and not the full MBA amount.

Therefore, the POD Automated System (PAS) recalculated the MBA by applying the COLA increase to the full MBA and then refigured the POD offset amount. The PAS triggered a manual adjustment credit and award data entry (MACADE) action to process the new MBA and issued a notice explaining the increase in benefits. The PAS conducted the POD BRI process approximately one (1) week after the national BRI process.

PAS has been decommissioned and no longer runs a POD BRI process. All POD offset in the participation period is final and should not be adjusted.