Determinations respecting any portion of period July 1, 1980 , through June 30, 1981
The Commissioner of Social Security shall not find that a State has failed to meet the requirements imposed by paragraph (4) of subsection (a) with respect to the levels of its supplementary payments for any portion of the period July 1, 1980 , through June 30, 1981 , if the State’s expenditures for such payments in that twelve-month period were not less than its expenditures for such payments for the period July 1, 1976 , through June 30, 1977 (or, if the State made no supplementary payments in the period July 1, 1976 , through June 30, 1977 , the expenditures for the first twelve-month period extending from July 1 through June 30 in which the State made such payments).