To ensure consistent and efficient treatment of Social Security beneficiaries across its vast bureaucracy, SSA has compiled a giant book known as the Program Operations Manual System ( POMS ) which governs practically all aspects of SSA's internal operations.

* U. S. Social Security Administration-Is SSA's Death Master File available online?

Parts of Woodlawn are sometimes informally referred to as Security, Maryland, due to the importance of the SSA's headquarters as well as nearby Security Boulevard ( Maryland Route 122 ) and Security Square Mall.

For example, the headquarters ( Central Office ) of the SSA's Office of Disability Adjudication and Review is located in Falls Church, Virginia.

This continues the SSA's effort to use video hearings as a means to clear its substantial hearing backlog.

A spouse employed by a corporation her husband controls, for example, may be entitled to distributions under the company's pension plan as well as to her own Social Security coverage.

The adjuster undertakes an investigation of each claim, usually in close cooperation with the insured, determines if coverage is available under the terms of the insurance contract, and if so, the reasonable monetary value of the claim, and authorizes payment.

Business insurance can take a number of different forms, such as the various kinds of professional liability insurance, also called professional indemnity ( PI ), which are discussed below under that name ; and the business owner's policy ( BOP ), which packages into one policy many of the kinds of coverage that a business owner needs, in a way analogous to how homeowners ' insurance packages the coverages that a homeowner needs.

Typically, courts construe ambiguities in insurance policies against the insurance company and in favor of coverage under the policy.

Eventually, beset by delays and in spite of all of the media coverage and apparent demand for the machine, the project ultimately went under when Konix ran out of cash without a completed system ever being released.

Minimum wage rates vary greatly across many different jurisdictions, not only in setting a particular amount of money ( e. g. US $ 7. 25 per hour under U. S. Federal law ( or 2. 13 for employees who receive tips, known as the tipped minimum wage ), $ 9. 04 in the U. S. state of Washington, and £ 6. 08 ( for those aged 21 +) in the United Kingdom ), but also in terms of which pay period ( e. g. Russia and China set monthly minimums ) or the scope of coverage.

Despite his support for SBS, the Fraser government imposed stringent budget cuts on the national broadcaster, the ABC, which came under repeated attack from the Coalition for its supposed left-wing bias and for allegedly " unfair " or critical coverage on TV programs including This Day Tonight and Four Corners, and on the ABC's new youth-oriented radio station Double Jay ( 2JJ ).

While it has since become clear that an index ( search engine ) is the most expedient entre into unfamiliar subject matter, associational links have remained an effective navigational method for obtaining intensive coverage of a subject area under study.

The organization concentrates on coordinating a global network of small, amateur-built radio telescopes under Project Argus, an all-sky survey seeking to achieve real-time coverage of the entire sky.

* 1987: Staff of the Akron Beacon Journal, " for its coverage, under deadline pressure, of the attempted takeover of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. by a European financier.

* 1993: Staff of the Los Angeles Times, " for comprehensive, penetrating coverage under deadline pressure of the second, most destructive day of the Los Angeles riots.

* The Farmers ’ Sickness Insurance Law ( 1972 ), which introduced compulsory sickness insurance for independent farmers, family workers in agriculture, and pensioners under the farmers ’ pension scheme, medical benefits for all covered groups, and cash benefits for family workers under compulsory coverage for pension insurance.

Such a constellation can be considered to be a number of satellites with coordinated ground coverage, operating together under shared control, synchronised so that they overlap well in coverage and complement rather than interfere with other satellites ' important coverage.

The amendments expressly excluded supervisors from coverage under the act, and allowed employers to terminate supervisors engaging in union activities or those not supporting the employer's stance.

The amendments maintained coverage under the act for professional employees, but provided for special procedures before they may be included in the same bargaining unit as non-professional employees.

Time Team's Big Roman Dig ( 2005 ) saw this format altered, in an attempt to avoid previous controversies, through the coverage of nine archaeological sites around the UK which were already under investigation by professional archaeologists.

In Quebec, children under the age of 10 receive almost full coverage, and many oral surgeries are covered for everyone.

Wired survived the dot-com bubble and found a new direction under editor-in-chief Chris Anderson, who took on the job in June 2001 and has made the magazine's coverage " more mainstream.

The Sun Herald newspaper in Biloxi-Gulfport, under the executive editor Stanley R. Tiner, won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in journalism for its Katrina coverage.

After leaving with the documents, Wigand appears at a meeting with Brown & Williamson CEO Thomas Sandefur ( Gambon ), who orders him to sign an expanded confidentiality agreement, under threat of revoking his severance pay and medical coverage and initiating legal proceedings.

In most states, SSI eligibility usually assures concurrent access to important medical coverage under the various state Medicaid programs and sometimes access to Section 8 housing benefits.

Severini ( 1991 ) discusses conditions under which credible intervals and confidence intervals will produce similar results, and also discusses both the coverage probabilities of credible intervals and the posterior probabilities associated with confidence intervals.

* The Social Insurance Law for the Handicapped ( 1975 ) which extended compulsory coverage to handicapped persons working in special establishments for the handicapped ( medical benefits and cash benefits to replace earnings from work ).

In addition, funding was provided for the establishment of community health centers to expand access to health care, while major amendments were made to Social Security in 1965 and 1967 which significantly increased benefits, expanded coverage, and established new programs to combat poverty and raise living standards.

Social norms theory has also been successfully applied through strategies such as curriculum infusion, creating press coverage, policy development, and small group inventions.

Pacifica also produces a wide variety of special broadcasts, including live coverage of major US Congressional hearings, national mobilizations against war, and other important events, such as the United States Social Forum.

The provisions of Section 218 of the Social Security Act and the instrumentalities agreement and subsequent modifications determine Social Security and Medicare benefits or Medicare-only coverage for state and local government employees enrolled in state and local government retirement systems.

Other local and state employees were brought into coverage under a 1991 Social Security law that required these employees to join Social Security if their employer did not provide them with a pension plan.

Congresswoman Watson supports withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, opposes media consolidation, supports expanding welfare coverage and opposed President Bush's proposal to privatize Social Security.

" Amongst the proposed measures included federal aid to education, a large tax cut for low-income earners, the abolition of poll taxes, an anti-lynching law, a permanent FEPC, a farm aid program, increased public housing, an immigration bill, new TVA-style public works projects, the establishment of a new Department of Welfare, the repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, an increase in the minimum wage from 40 to 75 cents an hour, national health insurance, expanded Social Security coverage, and a $ 4 billion tax increase to reduce the national debt and finance these programs.

Under Truman, many improvements were made to the social welfare system, although one of his key aims, to extend Social security coverage to 25 million Americans, was never accomplished, although coverage was extended to 10 million.

* The Internal Revenue Code and the Social Security Act were amended ( 1945 ) in order to extend coverage to all employees of the Bonneville Power Administration who were not covered under the Federal Civil Service Retirement Act and therefore had no retirement protection.

* The Social Security Act was amended ( 1946 ) to provide coverage to private maritime employees under State unemployment insurance, monthly benefits under old age and survivors insurance for survivors of certain World War II veterans, and temporary unemployment benefits to seamen with wartime Federal employment.

* The Social Security Act of 1950 increased welfare benefits, extended the coverage of social security to elderly Americans, and raised the minimum wage.

* The Social Security Act was amended ( 1952 ) to extend for another year “ the time within which State Governments could make agreements that were retroactive to January 1, 1951, for old-age and survivors insurance coverage of State and local Government employees ”.

* Social Security coverage was extended to farm workers ( 1951 ).

Later, uniquely Canadian volumes were created, including a series with nationwide coverage, The Social Register of Canada, first published in 1958.

If the individual is deemed disabled by the Social Security Administration, coverage may continue for up to 29 months.

In connection with the retirement program, the RRB has administrative responsibilities under the Social Security Act for certain benefit payments and railroad workers ' Medicare coverage.

Those who had previously worked on the King-Anderson Bill drafted a new bill providing coverage of the aged, limited hospitalization and nursing home insurance benefits, and Social Security financing.

Social security taxes to state and local employees was extended without other pension coverage.

The Social Enterprise Journal has been followed by the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, and coverage of the issues pertaining to the social economy and social enterprise are also covered by the Journal of Co-operative Studies and the Annals of Co-operative and Public Economics.