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Data processing, Office of Central Records Operations, §110, §§112-113

Dealer in stocks or securities, net earnings from self-employment, §1207, §1209

Death:

• accidental, §404
• benefits on behalf of deceased worker, §509
• evidence, §§1720-1721
• felonious homicide, claimant involved, §400, §1722
• incorrect report of death by Department of Defense, §1923
• missing person, §1721
• nine-month duration of marriage requirement, exceptions, §404
• partnership, effect on taxable year, §1204
• survivor of deceased insured worker, §400

Decision on reconsideration determination and notice, §2012

Decree of paternity, parent-child relationship, §1710

Deductions from benefits:

• annual report of earnings, §§1814-1822
• child-in-care requirement, §1829
• earnings test, §1801
• excess earnings, §1802
• failure to have child-in-care, §1833
• foreign work test, §§1823-1828
• good cause for failure to file required reports, §§1832-1833
• months not charged, excess earnings, §1805
• non-covered work for pay, defined, §1825
• non-payment of disability benefits, §505
• penalty, failure to report annual earnings on time, §§1820-1821
• penalty, failure to report foreign work, §1828
• receipt of periodic workers' compensation payment, §1835
• worker and auxiliary have excess earnings, §1804

Deemed military wage credits, §§953-960, §1306

Deeming of income and resources, SSI, §§2167-2171

Defeat the purpose of Social Security program, factor in waiving recovery of overpayment, §1918

Defeat the purpose of Social Security program, recovery of overpaid benefits, §1918

Delayed filing of benefit applications, §1504

Delayed retirement credits, §720

Dependency of child:

• child defined, Social Security purpose, §411
• dependent upon insured parent, §337
• grandchild, §325, §411
• natural or legally adopted, §334
• requirements, §337
• stepgrandchild, §325
• stepparent, §335
• surviving child, §410

Dependent care assistance, payments provided by employer, §1339

Deported worker, nonpayment of benefits, §303, §429, §505, §§1841-1842

Determination or decision:

• administrative actions, distinguished, §2003
• administrative review process, §2000
• disability, §115, §600, §§604-605
• dismissal of case by administrative law judge (ALJ), §2008
• extension of time for filing request for reconsideration, hearing, or review, §2015
• hearing by ALJ, §§2007-2012
• initial determination, §2002
• initial determinations, SSI, §2189
• reconsideration process, §§2004-2005
• review of the decision by the Appeals Council, §2000
• review of the final administrative decision, §2000
• request for reconsideration, §2004
• Social Security office assistance, §2011
• time limit for reopening, §2001, §2016

Direct deposit:

• outside the U.S., §122
• Social Security benefits, §122

Direct field office payments, SSI, §2187

Disability:

• cessation, §623
• continuing reviews, §622
• defined, §507
• determinations, §115, §600, §§604-605
• hearing, §2006
• medical evidence, §§606-607, §615
• medically determinable impairment, §601
• presumptive blindness and presumptive disability payments, SSI, §2188
• processing claims, §105
• SSI, §2102
• Ticket-to-work Program, §519
• trial work period, §520
• types, under Social Security, §500
• work incentives, SSI, §2173

Disability Determination Services (DDS), §115, §527

Disability evaluation:

• age, education and work experience, consideration, §§608-609
• cessation, §623
• child impairments, §607
• complete clinical and laboratory findings consistent with other evidence, §604
• condition does not meet medical impairment, §608
• consultative examination, §616
• continuing reviews, §622
• earnings, §620
• employment conditions, §611
• evidence, §614
• impairment, 12-month duration, §602
• independent of other decisions, §604
• initial decision, §527
• listing of impairments, §607
• medical evidence, §606, §§614-616
• medically determinable impairments defined, §601
• periodic review, required by law, §622
• qualifications, §600
• rating schedule not used, §605
• severe impairments, §613
• substantial gainful activity defined, §603
• substantial gainful activity, evidence, §§617-621
• terminating events, §623
• widow(er)s requirements, §612
• work availability, §§610-611

Disability insurance, Office of Disability Operations (ODO), §110, §115

Disability insurance benefits:

• administration of program, §115
• applications (See Applications)
• base years, §705
• benefit computation, §507
• certification of election, husband/wife, §729
• cessation, §623
• childhood, §§516-518
• dependent child, §337
• deported worker, §1841
• disability insured status requirements, §207
• disabled adult child, §518
• disabled widow(er)'s, §§513-515
• disabled worker defined, §505
• elapsed years, §704
• entitlement of underpayment due a deceased person, §1902
• entitlement requirements, §§501-507
• entitlement to other benefits, §734
• felony affect, §507
• financing the program, §136
• listing of insured status requirements for Social Security benefits, §211
• overpayment, adjustment, §§1908-1910
• overpayment liability, §§1905-1906
• period of disability, §209, §§508-512
• periodic workers' compensation payments, §1835
• reduced, §§723-729
• reduction for age, §726
• terminating events, §623
• trial work period, §§519-520, §522
• types of protection, §500
• unfavorable decision, §529
• VR services, §518
• wages, disabled former employee, §1335
• waiting period, §502
• without fault situations, overpayment, §§1915-1916

Disability insured status, exclusions, §209, §§508-510

Disability, period of (see Period of disability)

Disability Operations, Office of, §110, §115

Disabled son or daughter age 18 or over, §517

Disabled widow(er)'s benefits:

• benefit rate, §407
• date of entitlement, §514
• disability defined, entitlement purposes, §515, §612
• disability determinations, §600
• disability protection, types, §500
• entitlement requirements, §513, §612
• impairments related to the commission of a felony, §515
• medical evidence, §607
• terminating events, §409
• trial work period not possible, §520

Disabled worker's benefits:

• amount, §503
• appeals, §525
• application, §1502
• benefit rate, §503, §711
• dedicated account, defined, §1621
• definition, §507
• disability determination, worker's impairment(s), §507
• entitlement requirements, §§500-501
• events to report, §523
• felony affect, §507
• fully favorable decision, §528
• impairments related to a felony, §515
• last month of entitlement, §506
• lump-sum payments, §504
• medical evidence, §607
• medicare coverage, qualifications, §506
• nonpayment situations, §505
• offset determination, §504
• period of disability, §§508-512
• reduction to offset workers' compensation, §504
• substantial gainful activity, effect, §505, §§617-621
• terminating events, §506
• trial work period, §§519-520
• types of disability protection, §500
• unreduced, §504
• waiting period, §502
• when trial work period begins and ends, §521
• worker convicted of a felony, §505, §1850

Disaster, exclusions from resources, SSI, §2162

Disasters, major or personal, exclusions from income, SSI, §2138

Disclosure of official information:

• confidentiality of evidence, §1701
• Freedom of Information Act, §117
• Privacy Act, §117

Dishonorable discharge, effect of, §956

Dismissal of case by ALJ, §2008

Dismissal pay as wages, §1324

Disposal of resources, uncompensated value, SSI, §2165

Disposition of preferred investments, representative payee, §§1619-1622

Disposition of underpayment, §§1901-1902

Distributive shares of ordinary net income (or loss) from partnerships, §1200, §1204

District of Columbia employees, §941

Divided retirement system coverage group, §1015, §1017

Dividends or interest as earnings, §§1206-1210

Divorce decree, §308

Divorced spouse's insurance benefits:

• entitlement, §311, §403
• lump-sum death benefits, §431
• termination, §322

Document or record as evidence, §§1702-1703, §1712

Document submitted as evidence, evaluation, §1703

Domestic service:

• cash-pay test, §915
• duties defined, §916
• local college club, §§919-920
• parent performing for son or daughter, §§926-928
• private home or apartment, §917
• student, §§919-922
• wages, tax reporting, §918

Due dates for filing returns and paying balance of taxes due, §1410

Duty of claimant to report certain events, §106, §133, §522