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United States of America - Administration and financing - 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: 2001-05-15 | Date of entry into force: 2001-06-01 | USA-2001-R-59390

Amends Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation's regulations on Benefits Payable in Terminated Single-Employer Plans to adopt interest assumptions for plans with valuation dates in June 2001.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

President's Commission To Strengthen Social Security (Executive Order 13210).

Adoption: 2001-05-02 | USA-2001-R-59392

Provides for the establishment of the President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security. The task of the Commission is to submit to the President bipartisan recommendations to modernise and restore fiscal soundness to the Social Security system.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

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

Adoption: 1999-03-08 | Date of entry into force: 1999-04-01 | USA-1999-R-52349

Prescribes interest assumptions for valuing benefits under terminating single-employer plans for plans with valuation dates in April 1999.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Direct Service Connection (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) Rule (38 CFR Part 3).

Adoption: 1998-11-20 | Date of entry into force: 1997-03-07 | USA-1998-R-53207

Amends the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) adjudication regulations concerning the type of evidence required to receive benefits for post-traumatic stress disorder. Implements a decision by the United States Court of Veterans Appeals.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Application of State Law in Determining Child Relationship Rule (20 CFR Part 404).

Adoption: 1998-10-20 | Date of entry into force: 1998-11-27 | USA-1998-R-50998

Revises Social Security Administration Rules on determining whether a natural child has inheritance rights under appropriate State law and therefore may be entitled to Social Security benefits as the child of an insured worker. In particular, the revision specifies which version of State law will apply with regard to determining inheritance rights and court determination of paternity.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Deeming in the Supplementary Security Income (SSI) Program When an Ineligible Spouse or Parent is Absent From the Household Due Solely to Active Military Service Rule.

Adoption: 1997-07-28 | Date of entry into force: 1997-09-08 | USA-1997-R-47416

Regulates how the income or resources of ineligible spouses or parents affect the eligibility and benefit amounts of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) claimants and recipients when those spouses or parents are absent from their households because of duty in the armed forces.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Privacy and Disclosure of Official Records and Information; Availability of Information and Records to the Public Rule (20 CFR Parts 401, 402, and 422).

Adoption: 1997-01-29 | Date of entry into force: 1997-01-29 | USA-1997-R-45959

Sets forth the Social Security Administration's regulations regarding privacy and disclosure of information.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Overpayment and Waiver Rights, Final Rule (20 CFR Parts 404 and 410).

Adoption: 1996-10-08 | Date of entry into force: 1996-12-02 | USA-1996-R-45468

Codifies additional rights for individuals who overpaid into the Social Security and Black Lung benefits programs as defined by recent court decisions.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Computing Benefit Amounts, Reducing Benefit Amounts, and Filing Anual Reports of Earnings Rule (20 CFR Part 404).

Adoption: 1995-10-30 | Date of entry into force: 1995-11-09 | USA-1995-R-42583

Section 307 provides that the computation of social security benefit amounts shall not be modified under the windfall elimination provision of the Social Security Act or if a person is the recipient of social security benefits of another country, provided that the recipient is entitled to social security benefits only through a totalization agreement between the U.S. and another country. Section 308 relates to the computation of benefit amounts of persons receiving benefits based on military service. Made to reflect provisions of the Social Security Independence and Program Improvements Act 1994.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Social Security Programs: Fraud and Abuse; Establishment of New Part 498 to Address Civil Monetary Penalties, Assessments and Exclusions. Final Rule (20 CFR Part 498).

Adoption: 1995-10-10 | Date of entry into force: 1995-11-27 | USA-1995-R-42582

Establishes a new part 498, which will serve as a repository for the Social Security Administration's existing civil monetary penalty authorities and which will reflect and implement new civil monetary penalty authorities provided under the Social Security Independence and Program Improvements Act of 1994. Specifically, relocates existing regulations for misuse of Social Security program words, letters, symbols and emblems.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Administrative Review Process, Testing Modifications to Prehearing Procedures and Decisions by Adjudication Officers, Rules (20 CFR Parts 404 and 416).

Adoption: 1995-09-12 | Date of entry into force: 1995-09-13 | USA-1995-R-41994

Provides for the test use of an adjudication officer who would be the focal point for all prehearing activities when a request for a hearing before an administrative law judge is filed. The adjudicating officer is an integral part of the Plan for a New Disability Claim Process, approved in September 1994.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Administrative Review Process, Prehearing Proceedings and Decisions by Attorney Advisors Rule (20 CFR Parts 404 and 416).

Adoption: 1995-06-26 | Date of entry into force: 1995-06-30 | USA-1995-R-41425

Adds new rules which modify, on a temporary basis, the prehearing procedures for claims for Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits based on disability. Under final rules, attorney advisors in the Office of Hearings and Appeals (OHA) have authority to conduct certain prehearing proceedings.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Service of Process Rules (20 CFR Chapter III and Part 423)

Adoption: 1995-03-30 | USA-1995-R-40723

The Social Security Independence and Program Improvements Act of 1994 established the Social Security Administration (SSA) as an independent agency. The SSA will continue to be responsible for the administration of the old-age, survivors and disability insurance (OASDI) and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs. The SSA is also required to continue to assist in the administration of the Medicare program, the Black Lung Program and the Coal Industry Retirees Health Benefits Act.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Computing Benefit Amounts, Disposing of Underpayments, Resolving Overpayments and Payment Restriction Rules (20 CFR Part 404)

Adoption: 1995-02-01 | Date of entry into force: 1995-04-06 | USA-1995-R-40726

United States of America - Administration and financing - 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 - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Deemed Application Date Based on Misinformation Rules (20 CFR Parts 404 and 416)

Adoption: 1994-06-28 | Date of entry into force: 1994-08-31 | USA-1994-R-38329

Adds, inter alia, new rules on the filing of applications for Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits to implement the provisions of section 10302 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 (section 10302 provided for the establishment of a "deemed" filing date of an application for benefits under titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act).

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Aid to Families With Dependent Children and Adult Assistance Programs Income and Resources Disregards Rule (45 CFR Part 233)

Adoption: 1993-11-06 | Date of entry into force: 1994-02-02 | USA-1993-R-36209

Updates the statutory disregards in regulations for the Aid to Families With Dependent Children (AFDC) program and the adult assistance programs in Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands by adding income and resources disregards provided under several public laws.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Reopening Determinations and Decisions Rule (20 CFR Parts 404 and 416)

Adoption: 1993-11-04 | Date of entry into force: 1994-02-23 | USA-1993-R-36271

Revises the regulations to clarify the longstanding policy of the Social Security Administration (SSA) that the Agency on its own initiative, as well as at the request of any person claiming a right under the social security or supplemental security income (SSI) programs, may reopen and revise a final administrative determination or decision.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Law, Act

Departments of Labor Health and Human Services and Education and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 1991. Public Law 101-517 (H.R. 5257).

Adoption: 1990-11-15 | USA-1990-L-22336

Makes appropriations for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and related agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1991, and for other purposes.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Law, Act

Augustus F. Hawkins Human Services Reauthorization Act of 1990. Public Law 101-501 (H.R.4151).

Adoption: 1990-11-03 | Date of entry into force: 1990-10-01 | USA-1990-L-22366

Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years 1991 through 1994 carries out the Head Start Act, the Follow Through Act, the Community Services Block Grant Act, carries out programs directed to special populations of the poor, provides low-income home energy assistance, provides services for children, youth, and families, and for other purposes.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Social Security Administration; Social Security Number Cards Rule (20 CFR Part 422)

Adoption: 1990-10-18 | Date of entry into force: 1990-11-06 | USA-1990-R-22334

Amendment of rules on the issuing of Social Security Number (SSN) cards, including the role of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in accepting applications for SSN cards from aliens who have applied to legalize their status under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, and clarifying and updating rules on the evidence any applicant must submit in support of an application for an SSN card.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Medicare Program; Changes to the In-patient Hospital Prospective Payment System and Fiscal Year 1991 Rates Rule (42 CFR Parts 412 and 413)

Adoption: 1990-08-27 | Date of entry into force: 1990-10-01 | USA-1990-R-20957

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Federal Old-Age Survivors and Disability Insurance Benefits: Rules Governing Social Security Coverage of Federal Employment Rule (20 CFR Part 404)

Adoption: 1990-06-18 | Date of entry into force: 1990-06-19 | USA-1990-R-20526

Final rule concerning the social security coverage of work performed by certain civilian employees for the U.S. Government or an instrumentality of the federal service. In particular, it amends and clarifies section 8015(a) with respect to the retention of benefits where civilian employees who are covered by social security move to other employment within the federal service.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Federal Employees Retirement System - General Administration; Cost of Living Adjustments Rule (5 CFR Part 841)

Adoption: 1990-04-16 | Date of entry into force: 1990-05-17 | USA-1990-R-20477

Amends Regulations concerning the computation of cost of living adjustment of basic benefits under the Federal Retirement System.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled; Real Property Which Is Not Counted When It Cannot Be Sold and Transfer of Assets for Less Than Fair Market Value Rule (20 CFR Part 416)

Adoption: 1989-11-07 | Date of entry into force: 1990-03-21 | USA-1989-R-20698

Regulations intended to liberalise policies relating to Supplemental Security Income benefits by not requiring the sale or transfer of real property under certain conditions.

United States of America - Administration and financing - Regulation, Decree, Ordinance

Federal Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance; Wage Coverage Rule (20 CFR Part 404)

Adoption: 1987-07-07 | Date of entry into force: 1987-08-11 | USA-1987-R-3854

Revises five Social Security Administration regulations on the treatment of wages for purposes of calculating social security contributions.