Social Security Manual 2000

by Stenken, Joseph F.

• ISBN13: 9780872182585
• ISBN10: 0872182584
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-01
• Publisher: Natl Underwriter Co

Table of Contents

General Information
Coverage (OASDI)
Employee	4	(11)
Self-Employed Persons	15	(12)
Members of the U.S. Armed Forces	27	(1)
Federal Government Employees	28	(1)
Railroad Employees	29	(1)
Family Employment	30	(1)
Employees of State and Local Governments	31	(1)
Ministers, Members of Religious Orders and Christian Science Practitioners	32	(1)
Employees of Non-Profit Organizations	33	(1)
Hospital Interns	34	(1)
Student Nurses	35	(1)
Domestic Workers	36	(1)
Non-Business or Casual Employment	37	(1)
Agricultural Labor	38	(1)
Student Working for a College or for a College Club	39	(1)
Distributors and Vendors of Newspapers or Magazines	40	(2)
Americans Employed Outside the U.S.	42	(1)
Farmers	43	(1)
Religious Sects	44	(1)
Nonresident Aliens	45
Wages and Self-Employment Income
Self-Employment Income	15
Insured Status
Quarters of Coverage	2	(7)
Fully Insured	9	(7)
Currently Insured	16	(2)
Insured Status for Disability Benefits and Disability ``Freeze''	18	(1)
Alternate Method for Determining Quarters of Coverage Before 1951	19
Benefits
Retirement and Disability Benefits	1	(1)
Retirement Benefit	2	(10)
Disability Benefits	12	(17)
Spouse's Benefit	29	(9)
Child's Benefits (Child of Retired or Disabled Worker)	38	(16)
Survivor's Benefits	54	(1)
Mother's or Father's Benefit	55	(14)
Child's Benefit (Child of Deceased Worker)	69	(14)
Widow(er)'s Benefit	83	(11)
Disabled Widow(er)'s Benefit	94	(1)
Parent's Benefits	95	(10)
Lump-Sum Death Payment	105	(3)
Uninsured Persons Age 72	108	(1)
Suspension of Benefits for Inmates and War Criminals	109
Computing Benefits
The Simplified Old-Start Benefit Computation Method	2	(1)
Primary Insurance Amount	3	(1)
The ``Wage Indexing'' Benefit Computation Method	4	(11)
Maximum Family Benefits	15	(4)
Transitional Guarantee Benefit Method	19	(1)
Minimum and Maximum Single Benefits	20	(3)
Increase in Benefits	23	(3)
Year of Retirement	26	(3)
Reduction in Benefits	29	(5)
Recomputation of Benefits	34	(2)
Disability Freeze	36	(1)
Calculating the Exact Benefit Amount	37
Taxation of Social Security Benefits
Loss of Benefits Because of ``Excess'' Earnings
``Retirement Test''	1	(1)
Medicare
Hospital Insurance	2	(19)
Medical Insurance	21	(7)
Medicare+Choice	28	(5)
General	33
Social Security Taxes
Survivor Benefit Plan
Filing for benefits
General Information	1	(5)
Pfroof Required	6	(3)
Right to Appeal	9
Benefits for Federal Government Employees
Introduction	1	(1)
Federal Employees' Retirement System	2	(16)
Basic Annuity	4	(6)
Survivor Benefits	10	(5)
Disability Benefits	15	(1)
Thrift Savings Plan	16	(2)
Civil Service Retirement System	18	(22)
Computing the CSRS Annuity	28	(4)
Death Benefits	32	(1)
Annuity Eligibility Requirements	33	(1)
Computing the Survivor Annuity	34	(1)
Lump-Sum Death Benefit	35	(1)
Annuity Payments	36	(1)
Disability Retirement	37	(1)
Cost-of-Living Adjustments	38	(1)
Refund of Contributions	39	(1)
Life Insurance Benefits	40
Benefits for Servicemembers and Veterans
Military Retirement	1	(14)
Survivor Annuity	4	(5)
Disability Retirement	9	(2)
Social Security	11	(1)
Reservists' Retirement Pay	12	(3)
Veterans	15	(11)
Dependency and Indemnity Compensation	15	(3)
Disability Benefits---Service-Connected	18	(1)
Death Benefits---Service-Connected	19	(1)
Pension, Disability and Death Benefits Not Service-Connected	20	(6)
Government Life Insurance	26
Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance	26	(5)
Veterans' Group Life Insurance	31
Railroad Retirement
Employee and Spouse Annuities	1	(4)
Survivor Benefits	5	(5)
Railroad Retirement Taxes	10	(309)
Tables	319	(44)
Social Security Tables
Benefits as percentage of PIA	319	(1)
Quarters of coverage required to be fully insured for retirement benefits	320	(1)
Year in which person reaches age 21	320	(1)
Minimum number of quarters of coverage needed to be fully insured	320	(1)
Number of year earnings that must be used in computing retirement benefits	320	(1)
Insured status needed for social security benefits	321	(1)
Maximum AIME for retirement, survivor and disability benefits (for workers earning $76,200 or above in 2000)	321	(1)
AIME for workers earning $5,000-$40,000 in 2000	322	(1)
AIME for workers earning $41,000-$76,000 in 2000	323	(1)
Worker's and spouse's retirement benefits	324	(6)
Survivor's benefits	330	(5)
Disability benefits	335	(5)
Table of benefits in effect in December 1979	340	(5)
Federal Employee Tables
General pay schedule for federal government workers	345	(2)
Basic monthly retirement annuity for CSRS employees	347	(2)
Basic monthly retirement annuity for FERS employees	349	(1)
Amount of insurance protection under the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance Act of 1980	350	(7)
Servicemembers and Veterans Tables
Comparable ranks	357	(1)
Basic monthly pay rates	358	(2)
CSRS military monthly retirement pay	360	(1)
Rates of dependency and indemnity compensation---surviving spouse and children of veteran who died before January 1, 1993	361	(1)
Rates of dependency and indemnity compensation---parents	362	(1)
Index	363