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- Title XX of the Social Security Act: Program Description, Current Issues
- This report is about the Title XX of the Social Security Act: Program Description, Current Issues
- Social Security Financing: A Guide to Sources of Information
- This research guide identifies the information sources for the issue of social security financing as well as for a number of specific topics related to this subject.
- Social Security: Reexamining Eligibility for Disability Benefits
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- Social Security: How is it Treated in Determining the Federal Budget?
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- Cash and Non-Cash Benefits for Persons with Limited Income: Eligibility Rules, Recipient and Expenditure Data, FY1981-83
- This report summarizes basic eligibility rules, as of May 1984, for more than 70 cash and non-cash programs that benefit primarily persons of limited income. It also gives funding formulas, benefit levels, and, for fiscal years 1981-1983, recipient numbers and expenditure data for each program.
- Social Security: The Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) in January 1988
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- Social Security Financing
- The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) program, the largest of the social security programs, will not have sufficient resources to meet its benefit payments on time in July 1983. Even if the program were permitted to continue to borrow from the other social security programs, the financial the shortfall would re-emerge in 1984.
- Social Security: Alien Beneficiaries
- Mounting concern about the payment of social security Benefits to aliens living abroad resulted in the enactment of legislation this year adding new restrictions on the payment of benefits to certain aliens, P.L. 98-21.
- Social Security Benefits for Prisoners
- On Mar. 24, 1983, the Congress adopted, as part of the Social Security Amendments of 1983 (P.L. 98-21), a measure to preclude virtually all incarcerated felons from receiving social security benefits of any kind, including retirement and survivor benefits. This action expanded previous legislation. In October 1980, legislation had been enacted (P.L. 96-473) that denied only social security disability benefits and student benefits to prisoners convicted of a felony.
- Social Security Student Benefits
- As part of his program for economic recovery, President Reagan included a proposal to discontinue social security benefits for 18 to 22-year-old students attending college or vocational school. Critics of the student benefit believe that other federally funded educational assistance programs which tailor the amount of aid provided to actual educational costs and family income should be relied upon to help finance the college educations of students who are children of retired, disabled, and deceased workers.
- Universal Social Security Coverage: Extending Mandatory Coverage
- This report is on Universal Social Security Coverage: Extending Mandatory Coverage.
- A Comparison of Benefits Earned Under Social Security and Civil Service Retirement
- This report provides a brief side-by-side comparison of Civil Service Retirement and Social Security benefits.