A bill to amend the Social Security Act to make certain technical and conforming changes.

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Social Security Amendments - Makes clerical and conforming changes in the Social Security Act to correct errors and oversights in the Social Security Amendments of 1972.

Increases Social Security cash benefits under title II (Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act by eleven percent.

Increases the wages taxable for title II benefits under social security to $13,200.

Directs the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to study the various programs under the Social Security Act to determine the feasibility of relating eligibility criteria and benefit amounts to the cost-of-living differentials among the States or among different areas within a State.

Authorizes the President to enter into agreements establishing totalization arrangements between the social security system established by this title and the social security system of any foreign country, for the purposes of establishing entitlement to and the amount of old-age, survivors, disability, or derivative benefits based on a combination of an individual's periods of coverage under the social security system established under this title and the social security system of such foreign country.

Authorizes the President to delegate any of his functions under this section to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.

Provides that widows at age 55 (not age 60) shall be entitled to actuarially reduced benefits under title II of the Social Security Act.

Directs the Secretary of Labor, through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, to prepare, as part of the Consumer Price Index published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a consumer price index (to be known as the "Consumer Price Index for the Aged") designed to reflect the relevant price information for individuals who are 65 years of age or older.

Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress not later than June 30, 1975, and June 30 of each year thereafter a report on social services programs.

Prescribes reporting requirements for States with respect to social services under the Act.

Prescribes child care standards under title IV-A of the Social Security Act.

Allows low-income workers with families a tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code equal to a percentage of the social security taxes payable on account of their employment during the tax year.

Makes Supplemental Security Income recipients eligible for food stamps.

Establishes a national adoption information exchange system. Directs the Secretary to establish, within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a separate organizational unit, under the direction of the Assistant Secretary for Child Support, who shall report directly to the Secretary and who shall among other things: (1) establish such standards for State programs for locating absent parents, establishing paternity, and obtaining child support as he determines to be necessary to assure that such programs will be effective; (2) establish minimum organizational and staffing requirements for State units engaged in carrying out such programs under plans approved under this part; (3) review and approve State plans for such programs; and (4) evaluate the implementation of State programs established pursuant to such plan, conduct such audits of State programs established under the plan approved under this part as may be necessary to assure their conformity with the requirements of this part, and, not less often than annually, conduct a complete audit of the programs established under such plan in each State.

Directs the Secretary to establish and conduct a Parent Locator Service under the direction of the Assistant Secretary for Child Support which shall be used to obtain and transmit to any authorized person information as to the whereabouts of any absent parent when such information is to be used to locate such parent for the purpose of enforcing support obligations against such parent.

Authorizes civil actions to enforce child support obligations, and authorizes a study to establish paternity through the analysis and classification of blood.

Increases benefits to recipients of aid to families with dependent children under the Social Security Act.

Sets forth standards for entitlement to payment under Medicaid to Health Maintenance Organizations.

Directs the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to conduct a study of, and submit to the Congress not later than six months after the date of enactment of this section a report containing his findings and recommendations with respect to, the appropriateness, of reimbursement, under the insurance program established by part B of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act, of services (but only to the extent any such services are presently not recognized for purposes of reimbursement) performed by doctors of optometry with respect to the provision of prosthetic lenses for patients with aphakia.

Establishes within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a Medicare Formulary Committee to compile, publish, and make available a Medicare Formulary.

Requires the Committee to periodically revise the Formulary and the listing of drugs so as to maintain currency in the contents thereof, and to contain an alphabetically arranged listing, by established name, of those drug entities within enumerated therapeutic categories.

Extends coverage under Medicare for the disabled spouse of an individual who is covered under Medicare by reason of disability.

Provides that none of the funds provided under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act may be used for the performance of abortions.

Provides that during any period during which any foreign country prohibits or limits the export of crude oil or refined petroleum products from such country to the United States, there shall be no export of articles, materials, and supplies used in the exploration for crude oil, the extraction or refining of crude oil, or the transportation of crude oil or refined petroleum products, from the United States to: (1) such country, or (2) any other foreign country which is exporting such articles, materials, or supplies to such country.