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Social Security Handbook Index: Letter M

Excerpted from "Social Security Handbook". See the up-to-date, official Social Security Handbook at ssa.gov.

M

Magazine distribution, §§929-930

Maintenance services by landlords, rental income under Social Security, §§1217-1218

Mandatory payment, State supplement, SSI, §2181

Marketing of farm commodities, agricultural labor, §913

Marriage:

  • ceremonial, proof, §1716
  • common-law, §307, §1717
  • divorce, effect, §308
  • duration, 9-month requirement, §404
  • restrictions on remarriage, State-imposed, §309
  • spouse, defined, §306
  • SSI benefit affect, §2122
  • State-imposed restrictions on remarriage, §309
  • terminating events, benefit summary chart, §1851
  • termination evidence, §§1718-1719
  • validity of prior marriage, §310
  • voidable and annulled, benefits reinstated, §1853
  • widower's entitlement to benefits, §401

Material participation by landlord (farm):

  • advice and consultation, periodic inspections, §§1228-1229
  • decisions affecting success of enterprise, §1230
  • determination criteria, §§1223-1224, §§1230-1232
  • periodic inspection, §1228
  • production costs, §§1226-1227
  • rental agreements, §1225
  • rental arrangement, §1222
  • total activities, consideration, Test I-III, §1232

Maximum yearly earnings:

  • computation of average monthly earnings, §714
  • self-employment income, §1201
  • quarters of coverage, crediting, §212

Meals and lodging as wages, §1343

Medicaid application, SSI, §2107

Medicaid, extended eligibility, SSI, §2179

Medical evidence of disability:

  • condition does not meet a listing, §608
  • consultative examinations, §616
  • furnished by claimant, §§614-615
  • impairments or combination of impairments is not severe, §606
  • improvement in the individual's impairment(s), §623
  • inclusions, §615
  • listing of impairments, §607
  • medical evidence inclusive, §615

Medical evidence of incapability, §1604, §1606

Medical insurance benefits:

  • disability, under age 65, §500
  • enrollment, §2400
  • funding sources, §138
  • Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amount, §§2500-2508
  • overpayment, §1909
  • premium collection, §127, §138
  • reporting events affecting eligibility, §106

Medically determinable physical or mental impairments, §601, §615

Medicare (see Extra Help with Medicare Prescription Drug Costs; Hospital insurance benefits, Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amount, Medical insurance benefits, Medicare Advantage, Medicare prescription drug benefit)

Medicare:

  • appeals process, Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amount, §2508
  • appeals process, prescription drug cost, §2614
  • application for benefits, §103
  • defined, §127
  • health insurance, §128
  • prescription drug cost plan, §2600
  • tax rates, §1405

Medicare Advantage, §127, §2400

Medicare prescription drug benefit:

  • application, §2400
  • benefit, §2400
  • entitlement, §128
  • extra help with, §2600
  • financing the program, §139

Members of uniformed services, coverage, §§948-960, §§1305-1307

Mental impairments, §601, §615

Military service:

  • active duty defined, §950
  • active duty for training, §951
  • allied countries, service with wage credits, §957, §1307
  • armed services components listed, §949, §955
  • auxiliary organizations, §955
  • chaplains, §1133
  • Coast and Geodetic Survey, commissioned officers, §958
  • coverage after 1956, §948, §1305
  • coverage before 1957, §948, §954, §1307
  • death, presumptive findings of armed services department, §1720
  • deemed insured status of deceased veteran, §960
  • deemed wage credits, §§953-960, §1306
  • defined, §955
  • dishonorable or conditional discharge, §956
  • earnings record corrections, time limit suspension, §1426
  • incorrect report of death, overpayment, §1923
  • member defined, §949
  • noncontributory wage credits, §§953-960, §1306
  • Public Health Service, commissioned officers, §958
  • quarters of coverage, period of disability, §210
  • special wage credits, §212
  • wage credits, §948
  • wage credits after 1956, §948, §953, §1305
  • wage credits before 1957, §954, §1307
  • wage credits not payable, §959
  • work creditable for Social Security purposes, §952
  • work performed, amount of member's wages, §952

Minimum benefits, §716

Minimum pay test (see Cash-pay test)

Minimum PIA provisions, §716

Ministers and members of religious orders:

  • covered employment, §932
  • exercise of the ministry defined, §935
  • minister, definition of ordained, licensed or commissioned, §934
  • net earnings inclusions, §1212
  • self-employment, §1100, §§1130-1133
  • work not in exercise of the order, §933

Misrepresentation of material fact, criminal prosecution and penalties, §143

Missing person, evidence of death, §§1720-1721

Missing reports of earnings, §1420

Modification to Federal-State agreements, §1000

Modified adjusted gross income, §§2500-2504, §2507

Money gifts and bequests, §140

Monthly exempt amount, §§1807-1808

Monthly premiums for medical benefits, general, §138

Mother's insurance benefits (See also Parent's insurance benefits):

  • benefit rate, §418
  • entitlement requirements, §415, §421
  • non-payment situations, §419, §426
  • reduction, family maximum applies, §418
  • remarriage, effect, §417
  • terminating events, §420

Moving expenses as wages, §1333

Multiple enterprises as trade or business, §1105

Murder of worker, claimant involved, §400, §1722


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