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United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Law, Act

Defending Public Safety Employees' Retirement Act (P.L. 114-26). -

Adoption: 2015-06-29 | USA-2015-L-100302

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow Federal law enforcement officers, firefighters, and air traffic controllers to make penalty-free withdrawals from governmental plans after age 50, and for other purposes.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Law, Act

Cooperative and Small Employer Charity Pension Flexibility Act (P.L. 113-97) (128 STAT. 1101). -

Adoption: 2014-04-07 | USA-2014-L-96837

An Act to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for cooperative and small employer charity pension plans.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Law, Act

Safety of Seniors Act of 2007 Public Law 110-202 [S485]. -

Adoption: 2008-04-23 | USA-2008-L-80542

Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) oversee and support a national education campaign focusing on reducing falls among older adults and preventing repeat falls; and (2) award grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to design and carry out local education campaigns.

Allows the Secretary to conduct and support research to: (1) improve the identification of older adults who have a high risk of falling; (2) improve data collection and analysis to identify fall risk and protective factors; (3) design, implement, and evaluate the most effective fall prevention interventions; (4) tailor effective strategies to reduce falls to specific populations of older adults; (5) maximize the dissemination of proven, effective fall prevention interventions; (6) improve the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of elderly fall victims and older adults at high risk for falls; and (7) assess the risks of falls occurring in various settings.

Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) conduct research concerning the barriers to the adoption of proven fall prevention interventions; (2) conduct research to develop, implement, and evaluate the most effective approaches to reduce falls among high-risk older adults living in communities and long-term care and assisted living facilities; (3) evaluate the effectiveness of community programs; (4) provide professional education for physicians and allied health professionals in fall prevention; (5) oversee and support specified demonstration and research projects; (6) award grants to design, implement, and evaluate fall prevention programs using proven intervention strategies and carry out a multistate demonstration project; (7) give priority in awarding grants under this Act to entities that explore the use of cost-sharing to ensure the institutional commitment of the recipients of such assistance to the funded projects; and (8) report to Congress on the effects of falls on health care costs, the potential for reducing falls, and the most effective strategies for reducing associated health care costs.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Law, Act

The Pension Protection Act of 2006 (H.R. 4). -

Adoption: 2006-01-03 | USA-2006-L-77732

Title I - Reform of Funding Rules for Single-Employer Defined Benefit Pension Plans
Title II - Funding Rules for Multi-employer Defined Benefit Plans and Related Provisions
Title III - interest Rate Assumptions
Title IV - PGBC Guarantee and Related Provisions
Title V - Disclosure
Title VI - investment Advice, Prohibited Transactions, and Fiduciary Rules
Title VII - Benefit Accrual Standards
Title VIII - Pension Related Revenue Provisions
Title IX - Increase in Pension Plan Diversification and Participation and Other Pension Provisions
Title X - Provisions Relating to Spousal Pension Protection
Title XI - Administrative Provisions
Title X - Provisions Relating to Exempt Organizations
Title XIII - Other Provisions
Title XIV - Tariff Provisions

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Law, Act

Pension Funding Equity Act 2004 (Public Law 108-218). -

Adoption: 2004-04-10 | USA-2004-L-67564

Amends Employee Retirement Income Security Act 1974. Replaces 30-year Treasury rate with rate based on long-term corporate bonds for certain pension plan funding requirements. Also provides for some related matters.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Benefits Payable in Terminated Single-Employer Plans; Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans; Interest Assumptions for Valuing and Paying Benefits. Final rule (29 CFR Parts 4022 and 4044).

Adoption: 2003-06-13 | Date of entry into force: 2003-07-01 | USA-2003-R-64766

Amends Pension Benefit Corporation regulations on benefits payable in terminated single-employer plans and allocation of assets in single-employer plans to provide for new interest assumptions for plans with valuation dates from July 2003.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Benefits Payable in Terminated Single-Employer Plans; Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans; Interest Assumptions for Valuing and Paying Benefits. Final Rule (29 CFR Parts 4022 and 4044).

Adoption: 2002-01-15 | Date of entry into force: 2002-02-01 | USA-2002-R-61010

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's regulations on benefits payable in terminated single-employer plans and allocation of assets in single-employer plans prescribe interest assumptions for valuing and paying benefits under terminating single-employer plans. This final rule amends regulations to adopt interest assumptions for plans with valuation dates in February 2002.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Non-Discrimination Requirements for Certain Defined Contribution Retirement Plans. Final Regulations (26 CFR Part 1).

Adoption: 2001-06-29 | Date of entry into force: 2001-06-29 | USA-2001-R-59646

Permits certain defined contribution retirement plans to demonstrate compliance with non-discrimination requirements based on plan benefits rather than contributions. Defined contribution plan can test on a benefit basis if it provides broadly available allocation rates, age-based allocations, or passes a gateway requiring allocation rates for non-highly compensated employees to be at least 5 per cent of pay or at least one-third of the highest allocation rate for highly compensated employees.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Benefits Payable in Terminated Single-Employer Plans; Allocation of Assets to Single-Employer Plans; Interest Assumptions for Valuing and Paying Benefits. Final Rule (29 CFR Parts 4022 and 4044).

Adoption: 2001-06-15 | Date of entry into force: 2001-07-01 | USA-2001-R-59645

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's regulations on benefits payable in terminated single-employer plans and allocation of assets in single-employer plans prescribe interest assumptions for valuing and paying benefits under terminating single-employer plans. This final rule amends the regulations to adopt interest assumptions for plans with valuation dates in July 2001.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Supplemental Security Income; Determining Disability for a Child Under Age 18 (20 CFR Parts 404 and 416).

Adoption: 2001-01-02 | Date of entry into force: 2001-01-02 | USA-2001-R-57376

Revises and makes final the interim final rules published on February 11, 1997 to implement the childhood disability provisions of Public Law 104-193 (62 FR 6408). Continues to define the statutory standard of "marked and severe functional limitations" in terms of marked limitations in two areas of functioning or extreme limitation in one such area. Also makes a number of changes concerning rules on functional equivalences and "other factors".

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Disclosure to Participants; Benefits Payable in Terminated Single-Employer Plans. Final Rules (29 CFR Parts 4011 and 4022).

Adoption: 2000-11-17 | Date of entry into force: 2001-01-01 | USA-2000-R-58109

Amends appendix to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's regulation on Benefits Payable in Terminated Single-Employer Plans by adding the maximum guaranteeable pension benefit that may be paid by the Corporation with respect to a plan participant in a single-employer pension plan that terminates in 2001. Also amends these regulations with regard to disclosure to participants.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation. Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans; Valuation of Benefits and Assets; Expected Retirement Age. Final Rules (29 CFR Part 4044).

Adoption: 2000-11-17 | Date of entry into force: 2001-01-01 | USA-2000-R-58110

Amends Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's regulation on Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans by substituting a new table that applies to any plan being terminated either in a distress termination or involuntarily by the Corporation with a valuation date falling in 2001.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Federal Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled; Determining Disability and Blindness; Clarification of "Age" as a Vocational Factor Regulations (20 CFR Parts 404 and 416).

Adoption: 2000-05-08 | Date of entry into force: 2000-05-08 | USA-2000-R-56433

Amends Social Security and Supplemental Security Income Disability Regulations in order to clarify the consideration of "age" as a vocational factor and to better explain the consideration of the transferability of skills for individuals who are of "advanced age" in deciding whether such individuals can make an adjustment to other work.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Law, Act

Senior Citizens' Freedom to Work Act 2000 (No. 182).

Adoption: 2000-04-07 | Date of entry into force: 1999-12-31 | USA-2000-L-57303

Amends Title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the earnings test for individuals who have reached retirement age.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Insurance Company General Accounts Rules (29 CFR Part 2550).

Adoption: 2000-01-05 | Date of entry into force: 2000-01-05 | USA-2000-R-56431

Clarifies application of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to insurance company general accounts. Affects participants and beneficiaries of employee benefit plans, plan fiduciaries and insurance company general accounts.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974; Rules and Regulations for Administration and Enforcement. Final Regulation (29 CFR Part 2560).

Adoption: 2000-01-01 | Date of entry into force: 2002-01-01 | USA-2000-R-57955

Revises minimum requirements for benefit claims procedures of employee benefit plans covered by Title 1 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Establishes new standards for the processing of claims under group health plans and plans providing disability benefits, and further clarifies existing standards for all other employee benefits plans.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Law, Act

Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act, 1999 (H.R. 1180).

Adoption: 1999-12-17 | USA-1999-L-56436

Amends the Social Security Act to expand the availability of health care coverage for working individuals with disabilities, to establish a Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program in the Social Security Administration, to provide such individuals with meaningful opportunities to work, and for other purposes.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans, Valuation of Benefits and Assets, Expected Retirement Age Rules (29 CFR Part 404).

Adoption: 1999-11-19 | Date of entry into force: 2000-01-01 | USA-1999-R-56428

Amends the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's regulation on Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans by substituting a new table that applies to any plan being terminated either in a distress termination or involuntarily by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Payment of Premiums Rules (29 CFR Part 4007).

Adoption: 1999-11-19 | Date of entry into force: 1999-12-27 | USA-1999-R-56429

Amends regulation on Payment of Premiums with regard to the qualification for "safe harbor" relief from late payment penalty charges.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans; Interest Assumptions for Valuing Benefits Rule (29 CFR Part 4044).

Adoption: 1999-04-09 | Date of entry into force: 1999-05-01 | USA-1999-R-52681

Adopts interest assumptions for Single Employer Plans with valuation dates in May 1999. Promulgated by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Revised Medical Criteria for Determination of Disability, Endocrine System and Related Criteria Rule (20 CFR Part 104).

Adoption: 1999-04-07 | USA-1999-R-54441

Deletes obesity from the listing of impairments which determine if a person may be considered disabled.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Disclosure to Participants; Benefits Payable in Terminated Single-Employer Plans Rule (29 CFR Parts 4011 and 4022).

Adoption: 1998-11-05 | Date of entry into force: 1999-01-01 | USA-1998-R-51164

Amends the Appendix to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Regulation on Benefits Payable in Terminated Single-Employer Plans by adding the maximum guaranteeable pension benefit that may be paid by the PBGC with repect to a plan participant in a single-employer pension plan that terminates in 1999. Makes minor related amendments.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans: Valuation of Benefits and Assets: Expected Retirement Age Rule (29 CFR Part 4044).

Adoption: 1998-11-05 | Date of entry into force: 1999-01-01 | USA-1998-R-51165

Replaces Table I-98 with Table I-99 (value of early retirement benefits) in the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's regulation on Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans; Interest Assumptions for Valuing Benefits Rule (29 CFR Part 4044).

Adoption: 1998-09-03 | Date of entry into force: 1998-10-01 | USA-1998-R-50976

Amends the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's regulation on Allocation of Assets in Single-Employer Plans so as to adopt interest assumptions for plans with valuation dates in October 1998.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Law, Act

Savings are vital to everyone's retirement Act of 1997 (Public Law 105-92 [H.R.1377]).

Adoption: 1997-11-19 | USA-1997-L-49096

Provides for the public promotion of retirement income savings programmes through educational materials, public events, an Internet site devoted to the topic at the Department of Labor, and a National Summit on Retirement Income Savings to be held at the White House.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Law, Act

Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 amendment (Public Law 105-72 [S. 1227]).

Adoption: 1997-11-10 | Date of entry into force: 1997-07-08 | USA-1997-L-49095

Amends section 3(38)(B) to clarify treatment of investment managers under the Act.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Federal Law Enforcement Dependents Assistance Program Rule (28 CFR Part 32).

Adoption: 1997-07-10 | Date of entry into force: 1997-07-15 | USA-1997-R-47358

Implements the Federal Law Enforcement Dependents Assistance Act of 1996, which provides for awards to spouses and dependents of Federal civilian law enforcement officers who suffer death or total disability in the line of duty. The awards shall defray costs of higher education.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Living in the Same Household and the Lump-Sum Death Payment Rule (20 CFR Part 404).

Adoption: 1996-07-29 | Date of entry into force: 1996-09-09 | USA-1996-R-44799

Removes outdated sections of the rules and incorporates a definition of "living in the same household" which allows for extended separations based soley on medical reasons.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Regulations Relating to Definition of "Plan Assets"--Participant Contributions Rule (29 CFR Part 2510).

Adoption: 1996-06-30 | Date of entry into force: 1997-02-03 | USA-1996-R-44800

Revises the definition of when certain monies which a participant pays to, or has withheld by, an employer for contribution to an employee benefit plan are "plan assets" for the purposes of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the related prohibited transaction provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Revised Medical Criteria for Determination of Disability, Cardiovascular System Rule (20 CFR Part 404).

Adoption: 1995-10-05 | Date of entry into force: 1995-10-13 | USA-1995-R-42148

Corrections to final regulations published in the Federal Register 10 February 1994 (59 FR 6468).

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Federal Old-Age, Survivors' and Disability Insurance; Determining Disability and Blindness; Extension of Expiration Date for Adult Mental Disorders Listings Rule (20 CFR Part 404).

Adoption: 1995-07-27 | Date of entry into force: 1995-08-23 | USA-1995-R-41529

Extends date for adult mental disorders listing and makes two nonsubstantive technical changes.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Law, Act

Medicare Selected Policies, Extension. Public Law 104-18 [H.R. 483].

Adoption: 1995-07-07 | USA-1995-L-44264

Amends Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act 1990 to permit medicare select policies to be offered in all States.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974; Administration and Enforcement, Delinquent Filer Voluntary Compliance Program (29 CFR Part 2560 and 2570)

Adoption: 1995-04-24 | Date of entry into force: 1995-04-27 | USA-1995-R-40722

Announces the implementation of a new Delinquent Filer Voluntary Compliance Program by the Department of Labour's Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration. This Programme is intended to encourage, through the assessment of reduced civil penalties, delinquent plan administrators to comply with their annual reporting obligations.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Law, Act

Deduction for Health Insurance Costs of Self-Employed Individuals. Public Law 104-7 [H.R.831].

Adoption: 1995-04-11 | USA-1995-L-44263

Amends provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permanently extend the deduction for the health insurance costs of self-employed individuals.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Termination of Survivor Annuity Entitlement Based on Remarriage Before Age 55 Rule (5 CFR Parts 831 and 842)

Adoption: 1995-03-15 | Date of entry into force: 1995-04-17 | USA-1995-R-40207

Facilitates qualification for a current spouse survivor annuity in certain cases involving a former spouse's remarriage to a retiree.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Federal Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance; Changes in Evidence Required To Presume a Person Is Dead Rules (20 CFR Part 404)

Adoption: 1995-02-27 | Date of entry into force: 1995-04-17 | USA-1995-R-40720

Provides that, under title II of the Social Security Act, a presumption of death arises when a claimant establishes that an individual has been absent from his or her residence and not heard from for 7 years.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Testing Modifications to the Disability Determination Procedures Rules (20 CFR Parts 404 and 416)

Adoption: 1995-02-15 | Date of entry into force: 1995-04-24 | USA-1995-R-40727

Adds new rules which provide authority to test procedures that modify the disability determination process currently followed under Titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled Elimination of Waiting Period for Termination of Couple Status Rule (20 CFR Part 416)

Adoption: 1995-02-01 | Date of entry into force: 1995-03-30 | USA-1995-R-40189

Implements section 8012(a) of Public Law 101-239 which, effective 1 October 1990, changed the definition of the term "eligible spouse" as it is used in the supplemental security income (SSI) program. Under the former definition of "eligible spouse," members of an SSI eligible couple who began living apart could not be treated as individuals for SSI eligibility and payment purposes during the first 6 months following the month in which they began living apart. The statutory change eliminated the 6-month waiting period. Eliminates provisions in the regulations pertaining to eligible couples living apart.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Law, Act

Social Security Domestic Employment Reform Act. Public Law 103-387 (H.R. 4278).

Adoption: 1994-10-22 | Date of entry into force: 1994-10-01 | USA-1994-L-39399

Simplifies employment taxes on domestic services, coordinates collection of domestic service employment taxes with collection of income taxes, and provides for nonpayment of benefits to incarcerated individuals and those confined in criminal cases pursuant to conviction or by court order based on findings of insanity.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Law, Act

Pension Annuitants Protection Act. Public Law 103.401 (S. 1312).

Adoption: 1994-10-22 | Date of entry into force: 1993-05-31 | USA-1994-L-39401

Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 USC 1132) to provide for the availablity of remedies for certain former pension plan participants and beneficiaries.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled; What Is Not Income Rule (20 CFR Part 416)

Adoption: 1994-08-18 | Date of entry into force: 1994-07-01 | USA-1993-R-37679

Revises the regulations as to what is considered not to be income under the supplemental social security (SSI) program. Implements on a national basis a treatment of DVA payments resulting from unusual medical expenses that generally will be more advantageous to recipients than current national policy.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Law, Act

Social Security Independence and Program Improvements Act of 1994. Public Law 103-296 [H.R. 4277].

Adoption: 1994-08-15 | USA-1994-L-38709

Establishes the Social Security Adminstration as an independent agency that is no longer included within the Department of Health and Human Services. Provides that disability benefits will no longer be paid directly to a drug addict or an alcoholic. Instead such benefits will be paid to a representative of the payee and the Administration will conduct disability reviews of individuals receiving supplemental security income disability benefits.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Federal Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance; Determining Disability and Blindness; Extension of Expiration Date for Adult Mental Disorders Listings Rule (20 CFR Part 404)

Adoption: 1994-06-27 | Date of entry into force: 1994-08-16 | USA-1994-R-37936

Extends the expiration date for the adult mental disorders listings.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled; Eligibility for Children of Armed Forces Personnel Residing Outside the United States Other Than in Foreign Countries Rule (20 CFR Part 416)

Adoption: 1994-06-27 | Date of entry into force: 1994-08-12 | USA-1994-R-37939

Removes the restriction that children of armed forces personnel stationed in Puerto Rico or the territories or possessions of the United States may not continue to be eligible for supplemental security income (SSI) benefits while living outside the United States.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled; Continuation of Benefits and Special Eligibility for Certain Severely Impaired Recipients Who Work Rules (20 CFR Part 416)

Adoption: 1994-06-27 | Date of entry into force: 1994-08-12 | USA-1994-R-37940

Implements changes in the law made by the Employment Opportunities for Disabled Americans Act and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990, which made permanent, simplified and liberalized the incentives in the Social Security Act for disabled and blind supplemental security income (SSI) recipients who attempt to work. Also liberalizes provisions that provide an impairment-related work expense exclusion from the regular SSI income counting rules.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Reduction of Waiver of Complete Withdrawal Liability Rule (29 CFR Part 2647)

Adoption: 1994-02-17 | Date of entry into force: 1994-04-01 | USA-1994-R-36236

Establishes procedures under which covered multiemployer pension plans may adopt rules, subject to PBGC approval, for the reduction or waiver of complete withdrawal liability, and establishes standards for PBGC approval for such rules.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Federal Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind and Disabled; Limitation of Travel Expenses for Representation of Claimants at Administrative Proceedings Rule (20 CFR Parts 404 and 416)

Adoption: 1994-02-08 | Date of entry into force: 1994-02-23 | USA-1994-R-36270

Amends the regulations concerning payment of certain travel expenses to implement section 5106(c) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (OBRA 1990).

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance; Requirements for Entitlement to Widow(er)'s Benefits Rule (20 CFR Part 404)

Adoption: 1994-02-01 | Date of entry into force: 1994-03-30 | USA-1994-R-36576

Relects technical changes which clarify entitlement requirements for widow's and widower's benefits. Specifically, it clarifies that entitlement or potential entitlement to mother's/father's benefits, on the record of a fully insured individual, in the month prior to the month of marriage to an insured satisfies the alternative to the duration of marriage requirement for widow(er)'s benefits.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Federal Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance; Determining Disability and Blindness; Extension of Expiration Date for Cardiovascular System Listing Rule (20 CFR Part 404)

Adoption: 1993-12-21 | Date of entry into force: 1994-01-06 | USA-1993-R-35958

Extends the date on which parts A and B of the cardiovascular system listing, found in appendix 1 of part 404, subpart P, will no longer be effective.

United States of America - Old-age, invalidity and survivors benefit - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Federal Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind and Disabled; Standards Applicable in Certain Determinations of Good Cause, Fault and Good Faith Rule (20 CFR Parts 404 and 416)

Adoption: 1993-11-03 | Date of entry into force: 1994-01-12 | USA-1993-R-35961

Amends the existing regulations to reflect the provisions of section 10305 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989. Section 10305 requires that the Secretary of Health and Human Services, in making certain determinations of good cause, without fault, and good faith under title II of the Social Security Act, take into account any physical, mental, educational or linguistic limitations (including any lack of facility with the English language) the individual has.