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Social Security Handbook Index: Letter S

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S

Salespersons, §§828-829

Savings clauses, §731

Savings account of beneficiary, former representative payee, §1622

Schedule C (Profit (or Loss) from Business or Profession), §1416, §1735

Schedule F (Schedule of Farm Income and Expenses), §1416, §1735

Schedule H (Household Employment Taxes), §1409

Schedule SE, Computation of Social Security Self-Employment Tax, §1416, §1735

School attendance, evidence, §1715

School, college, or university, student employed in, §921

School, educational institution defined, §343

Scope of application, expanded or restricted, §1510

Secondary evidence of wages, §§1727-1733

Secretaries, Board of Trustees for the Social Security Trust Funds Labor, Treasury, HHS, §141

Section 218 agreements:

  • effective date, §1010
  • non-coverage, §1012
  • public transportation systems, §1013
  • purpose, §1002
  • Social Security and Medicare coverage, §1003
  • terms, defined, §1002
  • termination of agreement, §1020

Section 911 exclusions, §1246

Securities, dividends and interest, §§1206-1210

Selection of representative payee, §§1607-1610

Self-employment coverage (See Self-employment income):

  • allocation, §715
  • association as a corporation, §1112
  • Christian Science practitioners, §1130
  • church employees, §1136
  • court reporters, §1127
  • crew leaders, farm, §831
  • defined, §1100
  • estate income, §1116
  • exemption from self-employment tax contribution, §303, §§1128-1132
  • farm partnerships and joint ventures, §1121
  • fee-compensated positions, State and local employment, §1009, §1122, §1125
  • fiduciaries, §§1114-1116
  • fishing boat crews, §936, §1134
  • foreign government employees, §1124
  • hobbies, §1106
  • illegal activity, §1104
  • landowner/operator of business, §1118
  • mail carriers, §1117
  • ministers and members of religious orders, §932, §§1130-1133
  • multiple enterprises, §1105
  • newspaper or magazine vendors, §930, §1123
  • partnerships, §§1107-1112
  • public office holders, §1126
  • real estate agents and direct sellers, §1135
  • real estate broker, net earnings, §1215
  • religious group, tax exemption, §§1128-1132
  • retirement benefits, non-payable, §303
  • sharefarmer, §§1119-1121
  • Social Security and effective dates, §1100
  • trade or business defined, §1101
  • writers, royalties, §1113

Self-employment income (See Self-employment coverage):

  • allocated to taxable year, §715
  • association as a corporation, §1112
  • beneficiary of a trust, §1115
  • business expense deductions, §1205
  • capital interest, §1111
  • church employees, §1136
  • corrections, time limit, §1424
  • court reporters, §1127
  • crews on fishing boats, §1134
  • defined, §1100, §1201
  • earnings counted as wages, §1811
  • earnings records, revisions, §1424
  • evidence of unrecorded earnings, §§1734-1736
  • executors of deceased estate, §1116
  • exemptions, §1129
  • foreign work test, §§1823-1828
  • hobbies, §1106
  • illegal activity, §1104
  • Internal Revenue Service tax guides, §1418
  • landlord, §1118
  • limits, §1201
  • mail carriers, §1117
  • ministers and religious orders, §1130
  • multiple businesses, §1105
  • net earnings, net loss, for taxable year, §1809
  • newspaper vendors, §1123
  • noncovered remunerative activity, outside the U.S., §1825
  • non-professional fiduciaries, §§1114-1116
  • not counted in determining earnings for earnings test, §1812
  • notice of changes in earnings record, §1427
  • optional methods of computing net earnings from self-employment income on farm, §§1233-1244
  • partnership filing, Form 1065, Partnership Return of Income, §1417
  • partnerships or joint ventures, §§1108-1111
  • personal services, §1102
  • public office holders, §1126
  • quarters of coverage, §215
  • quarters of coverage, maximum creditable in year, §212
  • real estate agents, §1136
  • real estate agents and direct sellers, §1135
  • religious group tax exemptions, §1128
  • reporting, §1414
  • sale or exchange of a capital asset, §1211
  • sale or rental of properties, §1215
  • sharefarmer, §§1119-1121
  • social security coverage, §1100
  • special minimum PIA, §717
  • state and local government employees, §1125
  • substantial gainful activity, §621
  • tax exemption, §1129
  • tax rates, §1415
  • taxable net earnings, §1416
  • time period in trade or business, §1103
  • trade or business, defined, §1100
  • U.S. citizens working in U.S. for foreign governments, §938
  • writer's royalties, §1113

Separation of parent and child, child-in-care, §§315-319

Service member, wages, §§1305-1307

Sharefarmer, gross farm income, §1239

Sharefarmer, trade or business, §§1119-1121

Sick pay plan, wages, §1312

Signature by mark on application, §1511

Signature by mark on check, §124

Signature by mark on statement of evidence, §1702

Simplified old-start formula, §§707-710

Simultaneous entitlement:

  • child entitled on more than one earnings record, §§735-737
  • family maximum, child's benefits, §737
  • multiple benefit alowances, §§733-734
  • retirement or disability and another higher benefit, §734

Sliding Scale Tables, §2503

Social Security Act:

  • disability protection, §500
  • program administration, §109
  • programs, §100
  • purpose, §100

Social Security benefits, issuance, §120

Social Security Earnings Information, Form SSA-L987, §1726

Social Security information program and rights, §117

Social Security office functions, §110

Social Security numbers:

  • application, §101, §1401
  • definition, §101, §1401
  • lost, §101
  • obtaining a card, §101
  • penalty for falsifying information, §142
  • precautions, §1402
  • purpose, §101, §1401
  • replacement, §101
  • updating records, §101

Social Security program service centers, §§110-111

Social Security systems, coordination between U.S. and foreign country, §216

Social Security taxes, §136, §1405

Special age 72 payments:

  • application requirements, §347
  • cost-of-living increases, §719
  • entitlement requirements, §211, §346
  • reduced, other governmental pension, §348

Special minimum PIA, §717

Special occupations of employees, §§827-830

Special Veterans Benefits (SVB):

  • appeals council review, process, §2725
  • appeals, extension of time for filing, §2727
  • appeals, good cause for not filing timely, §2727
  • appeal process, general, §2722
  • definition and purpose, §§2700-2701
  • disqualification, §2708
  • entitlement, §2702, §2710
  • filing an application, §2710
  • filing for, §§2709-2710
  • final determinations, reopening, §2728
  • hearing, defined, §2724
  • hearing, request for, §2724
  • hearing, location, §2724
  • hearing, result after, §2724
  • initial determinations, defined, §2721
  • initial determinations, notification, §2721
  • initial determinations, appeal of, §2721
  • initial determinations, scope of appeal, §2721
  • other benefit income, §2707
  • payment computation, §2712
  • payment, date, §2713
  • payment restricted countries, §2715
  • qualifications, §2703
  • reconsideration, defined, §2723
  • reconsideration, request for, §2723
  • reconsideration, options, §2723
  • residing outside the United States, §2711
  • return to U.S. to live, §2720
  • SSI, eligibility, §2705
  • SSI, non-eligibility, §2706
  • State supplementaary payments-(California), §2714
  • Treasury Department regulations, §2715
  • U.S. District Court, filing for civil action, §2726
  • U.S. District Court, actions, §2726
  • visit to the U.S., §§2717-2719
  • World War II veteran, §2704

Special wage credits, military service, §212

Spouse's insurance benefits:

  • adjustment of reduction factor at ages 62 and FRA, §728
  • amount, §320
  • child-in-care, §312, §§1829-1831
  • defined, §306
  • divorced, §308, §311, §320
  • entitlement requirements, §119, §305
  • nonpayment or partial payment situations, §321
  • reduced, §320, §§723-729
  • separate payments, §131
  • simultaneously entitled to another benefit, §733
  • support, evidence, §1724
  • termination, §322
  • terminating events, benefit summary chart, §1851

Star route mail carriers and contract postal service workers, §1117

State and local employment:

  • agreement by State may not be terminated, §1020
  • chaplains, §1133
  • compulsory coverage, retirement system, §1005
  • contributions, reporting, and payment, §1019
  • court reporters, §1127
  • coverage agreements, §1000
  • coverage groups, §1000
  • divided coverage, retirement system, §1008, §1015
  • effectuation of Federal-State coverage agreements, §1017
  • employees covered by a State or local retirement system, §1010
  • employees transferred from one retirement system to another, §1015
  • employees whose positions are not covered by a retirement system, §1010
  • fee-compensated positions, §1009, §1125
  • governmental functions, §1003
  • hospital, employee coverage, §1002
  • ineligibles, §1015
  • interns, hospital, §923
  • optional coverage, retirement systems, §1015
  • optional exclusions, §1008
  • pension offset, §1836
  • police officers/firefighters retirement systems, §1007
  • police officers' and firefighters' positions under a retirement system, §§1012-1013
  • proprietary and governmental functions, §1003
  • public office holders, §1126
  • public transportation system, §1007
  • referendum, retirement system, §1010, §1012, §§1015-1016
  • retirement system coverage group, §1006
  • retirement systems defined, §1011
  • retroactive coverage, §1018
  • second chance coverage, §1015
  • Social Security coverage, §1000
  • States request for review of assessment, disallowance, credit, or refund, §1019
  • termination of agreement by State prohibited, §1020
  • Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), §947

State and local governments provide services to older Americans, §945

State court reporters, coverage, §1127

State data exchange system, SSI, §2107

State DDS, §115

State liability for FICA contribution, State and local employment, §1019

State plans, SSI, §2172

State Social Security Administrator, defined, §1018

State supplementation of SSI payments, §2181

Statement of Agricultural Employer, Form SSA-1002, §1726

Statement of Claimant or Other Person, Form SSA-795, §1732

Statement of Corrected Income and Tax Amounts, Form W-2c, §1409

Statement of Employer, Form SSA-7011, §1726

Statements by persons knowing about employment and wages, §1732

States authorized to extend coverage to employees under a retirement system, §§1013-1015

Statutory resources limitations, SSI, §2166

Step-child:

  • deemed, §320
  • termination of benefits, effect of divorce, §340

Stepchild-stepparent relationships, §§311-337, §1714

Stepgrandchild, dependent, §325, §336

Stepparent, benefits, §421

Stockbrokers, net earnings from self-employment, §1207, §1209

Stocks and bonds, dividends and interest, §1206

Stolen checks, §123

Strike benefits as wages, §1325

Student beneficiary:

  • confined in a jail, prison, or other penal institution, §344
  • full-time student defined, §344
  • nonattendance up to 4 months' duration, §345
  • paid by employer to attend an educational institution, §344
  • period of absence, §345
  • proof of full-time attendance, §1715
  • reentitlement, §341
  • terminating events, §§413-414

Student employment:

  • District of Columbia work, §941
  • domestic service, §§919-922
  • foreign exchange students, visitors and their families, §939
  • local college club, §§919-920
  • nonprofit auxiliary organization of school, §921
  • nurses in training, §922
  • work-study programs, §946

Substantial gainful activity:

  • ability to perform, §§617-621
  • continuing disability reviews, §622
  • defined, §603
  • earnings amount during period of disability, §620
  • effect on disabled worker's benefits, §505, §§617-621
  • evaluation of disability, §§608-609
  • exceptions to effect of substantial gainful activity, §617
  • medically determinable physical or mental impairment(s), §507
  • self-employment income, §621
  • special cash benefits, SSI, §2178
  • work availability, disability evaluation, §§610-611

Subversive activities conviction:

  • additional penalty imposed, §1839
  • benefit forfeiture, §1837
  • dependents' benefits, effect on, §1839
  • lump-sum death payment, §1839
  • military wage credits not payable, §959
  • pardon of convicted person, §1840

Supplemental Security Income (SSI):

  • administrative actions, §2190
  • administration and funding, §§2100-2101
  • administration fees, §2106
  • administration of program, §121
  • affidavit of support, §2170
  • aged, blind or disabled, §2112
  • agents, §2146
  • alien, §2115
  • Appeals Council review, §2194
  • appeals process, §§2191-2196
  • application, where to file, §1505, §1507, §1513
  • applications, §2111, §2114
  • areas of operation, §2103
  • basic principles, §2102
  • benefits financed from general funds, §136, §2105
  • benefits paid at different rates, §2180
  • blind, disabled, 12-month duration requirement, §602
  • blind/disabled work incentives, §2173
  • burial funds, §2161
  • burial spaces, resource exclusion, §2160
  • categories of eligibility, §2112
  • change in circumstances affecting eligibility, §2126
  • check receipt, §123
  • child under age 18, disabled, §517
  • child under age 18, application, §607
  • child under age 18, subject to deeming, §2169
  • citizenship status, §2115
  • civil action in a Federal district court, §2195
  • claimants residing abroad, §115
  • computation of payments, §2182
  • conditional payments, §2164
  • continuing eligibility, §2125
  • conversions, Federal/State matching grant programs, §2109
  • converted recipient, §2172
  • COLA coordination, §2183
  • countable income, §§2131-2132
  • countable resources, §§2153-2155
  • day of the month benefits are payable, §2104
  • deeming of income and resources, §§2167-2171
  • defined, §126, §2100
  • definitions, §2110
  • determinations, appeals and reopenings, §§2189-2197
  • determinations, reopened or revised, §2197
  • direct payments, §2187
  • disabled, §500
  • disability determinations, §600
  • disability reviews, §622
  • disaster assistance excluded from resources, §2162
  • disaster assistance excluded from income, §2138
  • disaster, defined, §2138
  • disposal of resources at less than fair market value, §2165
  • earned income, §2133
  • eligibility, §§2111-2125
  • eligibility, absent from the U.S., §2116
  • eligibility based on need, §2113
  • eligibility requirements, §126, §2114
  • eligible couple, §2110, §§2122-2123
  • eligible individual, §2110
  • eligible spouse, §2110
  • emergency advance payments (EAP), §2187
  • essential person, §2110, §2172
  • evaluation of disability, §608
  • excluded resources, §2151, §§2156-2163
  • exclusions, earned income, §2135
  • exclusions, unearned income, §2137
  • Federal benefit rates, §2113, §2147
  • Federal program administered by SSA, §126, §§2100-2101
  • filing extension, reconsideration, §2196
  • filing requirements, §2117
  • Food stamp eligibility, §2108
  • Fugitive felons, §2119
  • hearing, appeal, §2193, §2196
  • hearing request, §2193
  • home energy or support and maintenance, §2139
  • how resources are counted, §2154
  • immediate payments, §2187
  • impairment related work expenses, §2175
  • impairments, 12-month duration, §602
  • impede effective or efficient administration, recovery of overpayment, §1914, §1920
  • income, effect, §§2128-2147
  • income and resource limits for eligible couples, §2123
  • ineligible spouse, §2110
  • initial determinations, §2189
  • in-kind income, §2140
  • in-kind income defined, §2129
  • in-kind support and maintenance, §2141
  • institutionalization affects, §2121
  • institutionalized resident, SSI, §2121
  • interim assistance reimbursement, §2186
  • life insurance, §2159
  • liquid and nonliquid resources, §2150, §2154
  • marriage, eligible couple, §2122
  • matching grant programs, §2109
  • Medicaid application, §2107
  • Medicaid, eligibility, §2107, §2179
  • medical evidence of disability, §§614-615
  • month of payment, §2104
  • one-third reduction rule, value on in-kind support and maintenance, §§2142-2147
  • other benefit effects, §2117
  • overpayment, adjustment, §§1909-1910
  • overpayment, liability, §1906
  • overpayment, waiver, §1914
  • ownership of resources, §2152
  • payment amount, §2180
  • penalties for fraud, §2127
  • persons outside the U.S., §2116
  • Plan to Achieve Self-Support (PASS), §2177
  • presumed maximum value rule, §§2142-2147
  • presumptive blindness/disability payments, §2188
  • principles of program, §2102
  • probation and parole violators, §2120
  • program of last resort, §2117
  • program operation, §2103
  • proration of benefits, §2184
  • purpose of program, §2102
  • qualifies under more than one of the three eligibility categories, §2124
  • rate of withholding, §1910
  • real property as resources, §2163
  • recipient reporting requirements, §2126
  • reconsideration, §2192
  • redeterminations, periodic, §2125
  • reduced, living in household of another, §§2143-2144
  • reduction rule value, §2147
  • referral to State VR agencies, §518
  • reopening determinations, §2197
  • reopening determinations, "at any time", rule, §2016
  • repayment liability, §1906
  • reporting responsibilities, §106
  • residents of public institutions, §2121
  • resource exclusions, §§2156-2163
  • resource limitations, §§2164-2166
  • resources, §§2148-2166
  • resources defined, §2149
  • retrospective monthly accounting, §2183
  • role of income, §2128
  • services and resources not counted as income, §2130
  • special cash benefits, substantial gainful activity, §2178
  • special provisions for converted recipients, §2172
  • sponsor, §2110
  • State supplementary payments, §2106, §2181
  • statutory resource limits, §2166
  • Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA), §2178
  • temporary absences and in-kind support and maintenance, §2145
  • timely reports, penalty reduction, §2126
  • unearned income, §§2136-2137
  • unpaid amount due a deceased person, persons entitled to the underpayment, §1902
  • valuation of in-kind support and maintenance, §2142
  • VR programs, §518, §2174
  • windfall offset, §2185
  • without fault situations, overpayment, §§1915-1916
  • work expenses of the blind, §2176
  • work incentives, §2173

Support and maintenance, SSI, §2139

Support, evidence, §1724

Support requirement:

  • child, §335
  • evidence, §1724
  • grandchild, §325
  • parent's benefits, §§423-424

Surviving divorced spouse:

  • child-in-care, §§1829-1831
  • defined, §403
  • disabled widow(er)'s benefits, §513
  • entitlement requirements, §403
  • lump-sum death payment, not living in the same household, §431
  • lump-sum death payment, application, §433
  • mother's or father's benefits, entitlement, §416
  • mother's or father's benefits, remarriage, §417
  • remarriage, §406
  • 10-year marriage requirement, §119, §403
  • termination of benefits, §409, §420
  • widow(er)'s benefits, remarriage, §406

Survivor's insurance benefits:

  • 9-month duration of marriage, exception, §404
  • administration of program, §125
  • application, §1502
  • applicable law, defined, §402
  • auxiliaries or survivors of deported worker, §1842
  • benefit rates, §400
  • child's, §§410-414
  • felonious and intentional homicide, §1722
  • financing the program, §136
  • insured status requirements, §211
  • legal representatives, §1903
  • lump-sum death payment, §§428-433, §1842
  • mother's or father's benefits, §§416-417
  • overpayment adjustment, §§1908-1909
  • overpayment liability, §§1905-1906
  • parent's benefits, §§421-427
  • payable to survivors, §304, §400
  • stepchildren qualifying, §331
  • support requirements, §§423-424
  • underpayments, entitlement, §1902
  • wages paid in a year after worker's death, §1334
  • widow(er)'s, §§401-409
  • without fault situations, overpayment, §§1915-1916

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