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Cafeteria plan: 209(a)(4)

Cancer center: 1886(b)(3)(E), (d)(1)(B)(v)

Capital Expenditures: 1122

Capital Gain or Loss

Net earnings from self-employment exclusion:   211(a)(3)
Provider; renal disease:  1881(b)(2)(C)

Carrier

Determination:  1834(a)(15)
Employee:  1866(a)(1)(D)
Function:  1842
Report:  1862(b)(5)

Case-management system: 1915(b)(1)

Cemetery lot: 1613(a)(2)(B)

Censorship: 202(u)(1)(A)

Certificate of Election: 202(q)

Certification

Actuary; techniques and methodologies:   201(c)(end); 1817(b)(end); 1841(b)(end)
Alien; absence from U.S.:  202(t)(8)
Care needed:  1814(a)(end); 1835(a)(2), (a)(end); 1902(a)(26), (a)(31), (a)(44); 1903(g)(1)
Child support for IRS collection:  452(b)
Coverage; foreign government:  210(a)(12)(B)
Elimination of Lesser-of-Cost-or-Charge Provision:  1814(j)(1)
Home and community care providers:  1929(i)(1)
Home health agency; physician-owner:  1814(a)(end); 1835(a)(end)
Hospice care:  1861(dd)(4)(A)
Illness:  1814(a)(7)(A)
Information
Title II administration:  205(p)(2)
Veteran:  217(a)(3), (e)(3)
Internee (Japanese) credit period:  231(b)(3)
Medicare supplemental policy:  1882(c), (i)(2)(A)
Nursing facility:  1919(b)(3)(B), (c)(1)(B)(end), (g), (h)
Public Health Service wages:  215(h)(1)
Rural health clinic:  1910
Secretary HHS; civil action for support:  460
Secretary of Labor:  1202(b)(8)(B)(ii)(I)
Self-employment income to Secretary of Treasury:   201(a)(4), (b)(2)
Skilled nursing facility:  1819(b)(3)(B)
Spouse entitlement:  216(h)(1)(B)
State to Secretary; funds not used for pilot study:   1620(b)(3)
Surveys:  1861(dd)(4)(A)
Transfer of trust funds:  201(g)(1)(B)
Unemployment Compensation Funds:  303; 304(d)(1)
Wages to Secretary of Treasury:  201(a)(3), (b)(1)

Check

Delivery:  708(a)
Joint Payment:  205(n)
Negotiation:  201(m); 204(a)(1)(B); 205(q)(5); 1631(i)
Payment, expedited:  205(q)

Chief Actuary

SSA:  702(c)
HCFA:  1117

Chief Financial Officer: 702(d)

Child

Abuse:  425(a)(1); 471(a)(9)
Adoption:  470-471; 476
Custody:  463; 1101(d)
Deemed relationship:  216(h)(3)
Definition:  216(e); 1614(c); 1905(n)
Disability:  1614(a)(3)(H)
Medical assistance:  1902(e)(4)
Paternity establishment:  454(4)(A)
Reentitlement:  202(d)(6)
Separation from family:  425(a)(1)
Special health care needs:  1915(c)(8)
Stepchild:  216(e), (k)
Stepgrandchild:  216(e)
Supplemental security income outreach program:  1635

Child and Spousal Support Program

Allotment; uniformed services:  465
Appropriation:  451
Audit of State program:  452(a)(4)
Distribution of support collected:  457
Enforcement:  454(16); 459
Federal Parent Locator Service:  452(a)(9); 453; 454(17)
Garnishment:  459
Jurisdiction:  460
Late payment fee:  454(21)
Laws:  454(20)
Payments to States:  454(22); 455; 458; 459(e)
Publicity:  454(23)
Recordkeeping:  452
Reports
Congress:  452(a)(10)
HHS:  454(15)(A)
State plan requirements:  452; 454; 466
Unemployment compensation:  303(e)

Child in Care

Alien suspension provision:   202(t)(7)
Deductions:  203(c)
Father benefits:  202(g)(1)
Husband benefits:  202(c)(1); (q)(5)(A)(ii)
Mother benefits:  202(g)(1)
Penalty for failure to report timely:  203(g)
Report obligation:  203(g); 208
Student child:  202(s)(1)
Widow/widower; amount of benefit:  202(q)(5)(D)
Wife:  202(b)(1), (q)(5)(A)(ii)

Child's Insurance Benefit

Age:  202(d)(1)
Alien nonpayment:  202(t)
Amount of Benefit:  202(d)(2)
Application:  202(d)(1)(A), (d)(6), (o)
Child; definition:  216(e)
Deductions:  203, 222(b)
Dependency:  202(d)
Disability
Cessation:  202(d)(1)(G); 223(e); 225(a)
Definition:  216(i)
Entitlement factor:  202(d)(1)(B)
Investigation:  221(i)
Payment during appeal:  223(g)
Period of trial work:  222(c)
Reconsideration:  205(b)(2)
Termination:  202(d)(6)(E)
Time:  202(d)
Entitlement
Requirements
Initial:  202(d)(1)
Reentitlement:  202(d)(6)
Marital Status:  202(d)
Payment
Alien outside U.S.:  202(t)
Felony conviction:  202(x)
Worker's substantial gainful activity:  223(a)(1)
Railroad insured status:  202(l)
Rehabilitation services refusal:  222(b)
Relationship:  202(d), 216
Report obligation:  203(g), (h)(1)(A), (h)(3); 208
Simultaneous entitlement:  202(k); 203(a)(3)(A)
Steprelationship duration requirement:  216(k)
Student:  202(d)(7)
Substantial gainful activity:  202(d)(1)(end)
Suspension of benefit:  225
Termination Event
Age 18:  202(d)
Cessation of disability:  202(d)(1)(G)
Death of beneficiary:  202(d)
Deportation of worker:  202(n)
Disabled child; marriage:  202(d)(5)
Entitlement to OAIB/DIB:  202(k)(3)(A)
Marriage:  202(d)(1), (d)(5), (s)
Student; not full-time:  202(d)(1)(F)
Termination of entitlement of worker:  202(d)(1)
Termination month:  202(d)(1)

Child Support

Collection:  452; 456
Definition:  462(b)
Disclosure of information:  303(e)(1), (h); 459(c)
Enforcement:  454(9); 469
Garnishment:  459
Late payment fee:  454(21)
One-third exclusion:  1612(b)(9)
Regulations:  452(f)

Child Welfare Services

Definition:  425(a)(1)

Chiropractor: 1861(r); 1905(g)

Christian Science

Practitioner:  211(c)

Church or Church-controlled Organization

Employee income:  211(i)
Employment:  210(a)(8)(B)
Trade or business exclusion:  211(c)(2)(G)

Citizenship

Eligibility requirement:  2(b)(3); 4(1); 1002(b)(2); 1004(1); 1402(b); 1404(1); 1602(b)(3)*; 1614(a)(1)(B)
Employer:  210(a)
Self-employment income:  211(b)
Special age 72 benefits:  228(a)(3)
State; violation:  4; 1004; 1404

Civil Service

Annuity; effect on veteran benefits:   217(f)(1)
Offset; governmental benefit:  202(b)(4)(A), (c)(2)(A), (e)(7), (f)(2), (g)(4); 228(c)

Claim

Adjudication authority:  205(b)
Definition:  1128A(i)(2)
Payment:  1902(a)(37)
Provider of services:  1835(a)

Clergy

Employment:  210(a)(8)(A)
Self-employment:  211(a)(7)
Trade or business:  211(c)

Coast and Geodetic Survey: 210(m)

Coinsurance
See Deductibles and Coinsurance

College: 218(d)(6)(B); 707(d)(3)

Commission-driver: 210(j)(3)(A)

Commissioner of Social Security

Administrative duties:  704
Appointment:  702

Commodities Futures Trading Commission:  211(h)(2)(B)

Commodities dealer: 211(h)(2)(B)

Communist organization: 210(a)(17)

Community Service Aide

Child welfare services:  422(b)(4)
Recipient:  2(a)(5); 1002(a)(5)(B); 1402(a)(3); 1602(a)(5)(B)*

Compensation: 1201(a)(3)(C)
See Unemployment Compensation
Workmen's Compensation

Comptroller General of U.S.

Audit standards:  506(b)(1)
Authority
Obtain documents:  1861(v)(1)(I)
Subpena:  1125(a)
State records:  506(d)(1)

Confidentiality
See Disclosure of Information

Conflict of Interest

Advisory Council on Public Welfare:   1114(h)
Certification of care needed:  1814(a)(end)
Contract:  1153(b)
Peer review:  1153(b)(2)
Physician:  1154(b)

Congressional

Appropriations:  1930(j)
Employment exclusion:  210(a)(5)(F)
Intent/Policy
Home dialysis or transplant:  1881(c)
Prompt referral - VR services:  222(a)
Protection-State employee's retirement system:  218(d)(2)
Notification
Annual earnings test; exempt amount:   203(f)(8)(B)
Cost-of-living increase:  215(i)(2)(C)
Reservation power:  1104
Totalization agreement:  233(e)
See Reports

Consumer Price Index

Cost-of-living adjustment:  215(i)(1)(D), (i)(1)(G); 1617(a)(2)

Contract

Carrier:  1842
Medicare
Administration:  1874(b)
Disbursement of funds:  1842(c)(3)
Federally qualified health center:  1861(aa)(4)(A)
Home health agency:  1861(v)(1)(H)
Hospice program:  1861(dd)(2)(B)
Medicare Integrity Program:  1816(l); 1893
Payment of premiums:  1818(e)
Providers of services:  1816(a), (f)
Reasonable cost reimbursement:  1861(v)(1)(I); 1876
Risk sharing:  1861(s)(2)(H); 1876; 1887
Utilization and peer review organizations:  1862(g)
Ownership or control information:  1124(a)(1)
Provider:  1861(dd)(4)(B)
Section 1256 contracts:  211(h)
Standards:  1816(f)
Utilization and QC Peer Review Organizations:  1153

Contribution and Benefit Base: 230

Cost

Average per capita cost:  1876(a)(4)
Hospital services; inpatient:  1886(a)(4), (b), (g)(1)
Medical Care
Income exclusion:  1903(f)(2)
Reimbursement:  1902(a)(11)
State plan requirement; charges:  1902(a)(10)
Method of Determining
Board of Trustees:  201(g)(4)
Model prospective rate methodology:  1135
Reasonable
Bonds:  1861(v)(1)(H)(i)
Carrier contract requirements:  1842(b)
Charity expense:  1861(v)(1)(M)
Definition:  1861(v)
Escrow account:  1861(v)(1)(H)(i)
Extended care services:  1883(a)(2)
Home health agency:  1861(v)
Medical service:  1814(b)
Nonprofit hospital; gifts:  1134
Percentage; applicable:  1886(a)(1)(A)
Provider:  1861(v)(1)(I), (v)(1)(R)
Regulations:  1861(v)(1)(M)
Salary cost differential:  1861(v)(1)(J)
Unionization:  1861(v)(1)(N)
Reduction experiment:  1881(f)
Regulations:  1833(a)(3); 1861(v)
Rehabilitation:  222(d)(4)
Reporting period:  1886
Sharing:  1902(a)(10)(end)(IV), (a)(14); 1916
SSI demonstration
projects:  1110(b)(1)

Cost-of-living adjustment: 215(a), (i); 227(a); 228(b); 230(a); 1617; 1618(e)

Cotton ginning: 210(f)(3)

Counseling: 502(a)(2); 1814(i); 1861(dd)(1)(H)

Court

Assignment; right to payment:  1815(c); 1842(b)(6); 1902(a)(32)(B); 1912(a)(1)(A)
Attorney fee award:  206(b)
Authority of court:  205(g)
Child placement agreement:  472(g)
Complaint:  205(g)
Contract termination:  1153(f)
Conviction; subversive activity:  202(u)(1)
See Judicial Review

Crew leader: 210(n)

Crime

Benefits misuse:  208(a)(5)
Bribe:  208; 1128B(b)
Compensation payments:  1613(a)(9); 1631(a)(9)
Concealment:  1128B
Conspiracy:  208
Counterfeiting:  208(a)(7)(C)
Disclosure of offenses:  1126
Disclosure of information:  1106(a); 1157; 1160(c)
Effect on civil proceeding:  1128A(c)(3)
Excess fees:  206(a)(5); 1631(d)(2)
Failure to report:  1128B(a)
Fraud or misrepresentation:  208; 507; 1107; 1128B; 1632(a); 1882(d)
Kickback:  1128B(b)
Perjury:  1128B(c)
Social Security number misuse, purchase, or sale:   208(a)

Custody: 463

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