To be eligible to receive benefits, a worker must achieve insured status.A Social Security beneficiary acquires this status once forty credits of coverage are earned, or when the beneficiary has a minimum of six credits of coverage and, if greater, at least as many quarters of coverage as there are years elapsing after 1950, or after age twenty-one.Identify this insured status.
A)Currently insured status
B)Partially insured status
C)Fully insured status
D)Disability insured status
E)Exclusively insured status

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The described insured status is "Fully insured status," which requires a worker to have earned forty credits of coverage or a minimum of six credits and quarters of coverage proportional to the years since 1950 or after turning twenty-one, to be eligible for benefits.

To Be Eligible to Receive Benefits, a Worker Must Achieve