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Earnings

Average current earnings:  224(a), (f)
Effect on benefits:  203(b)(1)
Evidence of:  205(c)(3), (c)(4)
Indexing:  215(a)(1)(D)
Report:  203(h)(1), (h)(2), (h)(3); 208; 1925
See Annual Earnings Test
Average Indexed Monthly Earnings

Net Earnings from Self-Employment

Substantial Gainful Activity

Earnings Record

Combination:  203(a)(3)(A)
Content requirements:  205(c)(2)(A)
Correction:  205(c)(4)
Crediting compensation under Railroad Retirement Act:   205(o)
Deletion; subversive activity conviction:  202(u)(1)
Disclosure of information; Parent Locator Service:   453(b)(1)
Events which remove bar to statute of limitations:   205(c)(5) 
Evidence; value:  205(c)(4)(A), (c)(4)(C)
Military exchange service; Secretary of Defense deemed head:  205(p)(3)
Notice of revision:  205(c)(5)(B), (c)(6)
Penalty for false identification of worker:  208(a)(6)
Restoration:  202(u)(3)
Revision after time limit:  205(c)(5)
Right to hearing:  205(c)(7)
Self-employment income:  205(c)(4)(C)
State access to Social Security Administration data:   1137(a)(2)
Statute of limitations:  205(c)(1)(B)
Tax statements processed for Treasury:  232
Time limitation:  205(c)(1)(B)
Totalization agreement:  233
Wages
Evidence:  205(c)(3)
Presumption:  205(c)(4)(B)

Earnings Record

Establish and maintain earnings records
Social Security Number

Education: 1886(d)(5)(B)(iv), (h)

Educational assistance: 209(a)(15)

Elective position: 218(c)(3)(A)

Eligibility

Limitation exception:  1611(e)(1)(G)
Verification system:  1137
See Hospital Insurance Benefits
Supplemental Security Income

Eligible Organization

Actuarial value:  1876(e)(1)
Administration:  1876(i)(1)(B)
Benefits:  1876(g)(3)
Capital expenditure:  1122(j)
Community rating system:  1876(e)(3)
Contract
General:  1876(c)(3)(F), (c)(3)(G), (i)
Reimbursement:  1876(a)(1)(A), (h)(1)
Risk-sharing contract:  1876(a)(1)(A), (g), (i)(4), (i)(6)
Secretary HHS:  1876(c)(2), (i)(5)
Court review:  1876(c)(5)(B)
Deductibles and coinsurance:  1876(e)(1)
Definition:  1876(b)
Disclosure of information:  1876(i)(3)
Distribution of profits:  1876(h)(4)(D)
Enrollment:  1876(c)(3), (d), (f)
Financial accounting:  1876(h)(4)
Hearing for aggrieved:  1876(c)(5)
Insurance:  1876(b)(2)(D), (e)(4)
Members enrolled:  1876(c)(1)
Optional coverage:  1876(e)(2)
Payment
Adjustment:  1876(a)(1)(E), (h)(3)
Advance:  1876(a)(1)(D)
Copayment:  1876(e)(1)
Hospital:  1876(h)(2)
Overpayment:  1876(h)(4)(B)
Peer review organization:  1876(i)(7)
Per capita:  1876(a)(1)(A)
Physician:  1876(j)
Reimbursement:  1876(a)(2)
Risk-sharing contract:  1876(g)(6), (i)(7)
Skilled nursing facility:  1876(h)(2)
Trust fund apportionment:  1876(a)(5)
Penalty:  1128A(b); 1876(i)(6)(B)
Quality assurance:  1876(c)(6)
Regulations:  1876(h)(4)(C)
Services; availability:  1876(c)(4)
Utilization:  1876(e)(3)
Waiting period:  1876(i)(4)
Weighted aggregate premium:  1876(e)(3)(B)
Workmen's compensation:  1876(e)(4)

Emergency case: 1861(aa)(2)(H)

Employee

Benefit plan:  209(a)(2)
Definition:  210(j); 218(b)(3)
Federal:  210(p)
HHS employee:  703
Managing employee:  1126(b)
State
Bonding:  454(14)
Federal hiring; disability determinations:  221(b)(3)
Referendum:  218(d)(3)
Training:  3(a)(4)(A); 705; 907; 1003(a)(3)(A); 1403(a)(3)(A); 1602(a)(5)(B)*; 1603(a)(4)(A)*; 2002(a)(2)(B)
Unionization:  1861(v)(1)(N)
United States
Civil service:  210(a)(5)
Executive Schedule employee:  210(a)(5)(D)(i)
Hospital resident, intern, student:  210(a)(6)(B)
Prison inmate:  210(a)(6)(A)
Temporary emergency:  210(a)(6)(C)
See Government Employee

Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974

Contribution and benefit base:  230(d)
Disclosure of information:  1106(c)

Employer

American:  210(a), (e)
Citizenship:  210(a)
Contributions: 209(i)
Foreign affiliate of U.S. employer:  210(a)
Report:  1862(b)(5)(C)
Residence:  210(a)
Tax return:  232
Withholding:  1101(c)

Employer-employee relationship: 210(j)(2)
See Employee

Employment

Agricultural labor; definition:  210(f)
American Aircraft
Definition:  210(d)
Inclusion conditions:  210(a)
American Employer
Definition:  210(e)
Inclusion conditions:  210(a)
American Samoa; employee:  210(a)(7)(C)
American Vessel
Definition:  210(c)
Inclusion conditions:  210(a)
Beginning 1937:  210(a)
Common law:  210(j)(2)
Crew leader; definition:  210(n)
Definition:  210(a); 218(a)(2)
Demonstration project participation:  1115(b)(5)
District of Columbia:  210(a)(7)(D)
Farm; definition:  210(g)
Fee-basis job:  211(c)(1), (c)(2)(E); 218(c)(3)(A), (m)(2)
Government employees:  218(n)
Guam; employee:  210(a)(7)(C), (a)(7)(E)
Hurricane labor:  210(f)(2)
Included-excluded rule:  210(b)
Minister:  210(a)(8)(A)
Office; public:  901(c)(1)(A)(ii), (c)(4); 903(c)(2)
One-half rule:  210(b)
Peace Corps volunteer:  210(o)
Public transportation service:  210(k)
Religious order:  210(a)(8)(A); 1862(b)(1)(D)
Security:  901--908
Service in uniformed services:  210(l)
State and local employees; contract coverage:   210(a)(7)(A)
Taxes; refund:  201(g)(2)
Totalization agreement:  210(a)(C)
Transportation service:  210(a)(7)(B), (k)
United States:  210(a), (i)
See State and Local Coverage

Employment Exclusion

Aircraft:  210(a)(4)
Alien nonresident:  210(a)(19)
Church or church- controlled organization:   210(a)(8)(B)
Communist organization:  210(a)(17)
Domestic work; student for college club:  210(a)(2)
Exclusion from coverage; mandatory:  218(c)(6)(D)
Family work:  210(a)(3)
Fishing:  210(a)(20)
Foreign agricultural workers:  210(a)(1)
Foreign government instrumentality (agency):   210(a)(12)
Foreign government:  210(a)(12)
Government employees; medicare:  210(p)
Included-excluded rule:  210(b)
International organization employee:  210(a)(15)
Minister:  210(a)(8)(A)
Newspaper delivery person:  210(a)(14)
Newspaper vendor:  210(a)(14)
One-half rule:  210(b)
Philippine resident in Guam:  210(a)(18)
Railroad employee or employee representative:   210(a)(9)
Real Estate
Agent:  210(q)
Direct seller:  210(q)
Sharefarmer:  210(a)(16)
State or local employment:  210(a)(7)
Student:  210(a)(10), (a)(13)
Tribal organization services:  210(a)(5)(B)(i)(V)
United States
Hospital resident, intern, student:   210(a)(6)(B)
Prison inmate:  210(a)(6)(A)
Temporary emergency:  210(a)(6)(C)
Vessel:  210(a)(4)

Energy; Home

Block grant:  2002(d)
Income exclusion:  1612(b)(13)
Regulations:  1612(b)(13)

Enforcement

Death termination:  205(r)
Home and community care provider:  1929(j)
Requirement; disability offset:  224(f)(1)
SSI unearned income:  1611(c)(4)

Entitlement Month

Child Benefits
Entitlement:  202(d)(1)
Reentitlement:  202(d)(6)
Disability benefits:  223(a)(1)
Father benefits:  202(g)(1)
Hospital insurance benefits:  226(a), (b)
Husband benefits:  202(c)(1)(D), (r)
Mother benefits:  202(g)(1)
Old-age benefits:  202(a)
Parent benefits:  202(h)(1)(end)
Special age 72 benefits:  228(a)(end)
Supplemental security income:  1611(c)(6)
Widow Benefits
Age 60 or over:  202(e)(1)(E)
Disabled:  202(e)(1)(F)
Widower Benefits
Age 60 or over:  202(f)(1)(E)
Disabled:  202(f)(1)(F)
Wife benefits:  202(b)(1), (r)

Entitlement on Own Earnings Record

Father benefits:  202(g)(1)
Husband Benefits
Entitlement factor:  202(c)(1)(D)
Termination event:  202(c)(1)(J)
Mother benefits:  202(g)(1)
Parent benefits:  202(h)(1)
Widow benefits:  202(e)(1)
Widower Benefits
Entitlement factor:  202(f)(1)(D)
Termination-event:  202(f)(1)(end)
Wife Benefits
Entitlement factor:  202(b)(1)(D)
Termination event:  202(b)(1)(J)

Entitlement on Two Earnings Records
See Entitlement; Simultaneous

Entitlement Requirements

Aid to blind:  1002(a)(7)
Child Benefits
Entitlement:  202(d)(1)
Reentitlement:  202(d)(6)
Simultaneous entitlement:  202(k)(1)
Father benefits:  202(g)(1)
Hospital insurance benefits:  226(a), (b)
Husband benefits:  202(c)(1)
Lump sum:  202(i)
Mother benefits:  202(g)(1)
Old-age benefits:  202(a)
Parent benefits:  202(h)(1)
Renal disease; hospital benefits:  226A(a)
Special age 72 benefits:  228(a)
Widow benefits:  202(e)(1)
Widower benefits:  202(f)(1)
Wife benefits:  202(b)
See Insured Status
Insured Status Requirement

Entitlement; Simultaneous

Age; reduction for:  202(q)(11)
Benefit amount:  202(k); 203(a)(7)
Child benefits:  202(k)(1)
DIB and OAIB on same record:  202(k)(4)
Father benefits:  202(g)(1)(C)
General:  202(k)(2)(B), (k)(3)
Husband benefits:  202(c)(1)(D)
Mother benefits:  202(g)(1)(C)
Parent benefits:  202(h)(1)(D)
Widow benefits:  202(e)(1)(D)
Widower benefits:  202(f)(1)(D)
Wife benefits:  202(b)(1)(D)

Entity

Court review:  1128(f)
Crime:  1128
Disclosure; ownership or control:  1126(a)
Exclusion from participation in programs:  2005(a)(9)
Function:  1154(a)(4)(C)
Hearing:  1128(f)
Medical assistance:  1902(p)(2)
Nonpayment:  1862(e)
Payment:  1903(m)(2)(G)
See Health Maintenance Organization

Equipment

Braces:  1861(s)
Hearing aid:  1862(a)(7)
Income exclusion; disabled person:  1612(b)(4)(B)(ii)
Medical:  1814(k); 1832(a)(2)(G); 1833(a)(1)(I), (a)(5); 1834(a), (h); 1861(m)(5), (n), (s)(6); (dd)(1)(E); 1881(e)(3)
Renal dialysis:  1881(b)(8), (e), (f)
SGA earnings exclusion:  1614(a)(3)(D)
Supportive:  1862(a)(8); 1881(e)(3)
Wheelchair:  1842(b)(3)(end)

Error

Earnings record:  205(c)(5)(C)
Government error:  202(j)(5); 1837(h)
Payment rate:  403(i), (j)

Erroneous report of death: 204(a)(1)(A)

Escrow account: 1861(o)(7)

Espionage: 202(u)(1)(A)

Essential Person

Definition:  1905(a)(end)
Supplemental security income; payment:  1905(k)

Estate of Beneficiary

Overpayment liability:  204(a)(1)(A); 1631(b)(1)
Recovery of payment:  1917
Underpayment ineligibility:  1631(b)(1)

Evidence

Admissibility; claims:  205(b)(1)
Alien:  1621(d)
Disability
Cessation:  1614(a)(4)
Cost reimbursement:  223(d)(5)(A)
Proof:  223(d)(5)
Review:  221(h)
Earnings:  205(c)(3), (c)(4)
Earnings Record
Finality:  205(c)(4)
General:  205(c)(3)
Expedited payment requirement:  205(q)(3)
Immigration status:  1137(d)
Overpayment:  1876(h)(4)(B)
Rules and regulations:  205(a); 1631(d)(1)
Secretary receives:  205(b)(1)
Secretary's records:  205(c)(4)
Substantial evidence rule:  205(g); 304(b); 1116(a)(4); 1128A(e); 1631(c)(3)
Time limit for submittal:  202(j)(2)
See Proof

Exchanges; military: 205(p)(3)

Expenses

Administrative:  1817(h); 1841(g); 1844(b); 2002(a)(2)(B)(i)
Secretary:  703
Travel; disability claim:  201(j); 1631(h); 1817(i)
Traveltime:  1861(v)(5)(A)
Work:  2(a)(10)(A); 1402(a)(8); 1602(a)(14)*

Expert: 703

Extended care facility; eligibility limitation:  1611(e)(1)(B)
See Services

Eyes

Blindness determination:  1002(a)(10); 1602(a)(12)*
Examination:  1862(a)(7); 1902(a)(12)
Glasses and contact lenses:  1842(b)(11)
Intraocular lens:  1832(a)(2)(F)(i); 1833(i)(2)(A)(iii); 1862(a)(15)
Optometrist services:  1861(r)(4)
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