Social Security Manual 2001

by Stenken, Joseph F.

• ISBN13: 9780872182769
• ISBN10: 0872182762
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Natl Underwriter Co

Table of Contents

General Information
Coverage (OASDI)
Employee	4	(10)
Self-Employed Persons	14	(10)
Members of the U.S. Armed Forces	24	(1)
Federal Government Employees	25	(1)
Railroad Employees	26	(1)
Family Employment	27	(1)
Employees of State and Local Governments	28	(1)
Ministers, Members of Religious Orders and Christian Science Practitioners	29	(1)
Employees of Non-Profit Organizations	30	(1)
Hospital Interns	31	(1)
Student Nurses	32	(1)
Domestic Workers	33	(1)
Non-Business or Casual Employment	34	(1)
Agricultural Labor	35	(1)
Students Working for a College or for a College Club	36	(1)
Distributors and Vendors of Newspapers or Magazines	37	(2)
Americans Employed Outside the U.S.	39	(1)
Farmers	40	(1)
Religious Sects	41	(1)
Nonresident Aliens	42
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
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
Filing for Benefits
General Information	1	(5)
Proof 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	(291)
Tables	301	(58)
Social Security Tables
Benefits as percentage of PIA	301	(1)
Quarters of coverage required to be fully insured for retirement benefits	302	(1)
Year in which person reaches age 21	302	(1)
Minimum number of quarters of coverage needed to be fully insured	302	(1)
Number of years earnings that must be used in computing retirement benefits	302	(1)
Insured status needed for social security benefits	303	(1)
Maximum AIME for retirement, survivor and disability benefits (for workers earning $80,400 or above in 2001)	303	(1)
AIME for workers earning $5,000-$40,000 in 2001	304	(1)
AIME for workers earning $41,000-$80,000 in 2001	305	(2)
Worker's and spouse's retirement benefits	307	(6)
Survivor's benefits	313	(6)
Disability benefits	319	(6)
Table of benefits in effect in December 1979	325	(12)
Federal Employee Tables
General pay schedule for federal government workers	337	(2)
Basic monthly retirement annuity for CSRS employees	339	(2)
Basic monthly retirement annuity for FERS employees	341	(1)
Amount of insurance protection under the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance Act of 1980	342	(7)
Servicemembers and Veterans Tables
Comparable ranks	349	(1)
Basic monthly pay rates	350	(3)
CSRS military monthly retirement pay	353	(2)
Rates of dependency and indemnity compensation--surviving spouse and children of veteran who died before January 1, 1993	355	(2)
Rates of dependency and indemnity compensation--parents	357	(2)
Index	359