C.F.R. » Title 20 » CHAPTER III—SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION › PART 404—FEDERAL OLD-AGE, SURVIVORS AND DISABILITY INSURANCE (1950- ) › Subpart C—Computing Primary Insurance Amounts

20 C.F.R. § 404.203

Definitions

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(a) General definitions. As used in this subpart—

Ad hoc increase in primary insurance amounts means an increase in primary insurance amounts enacted by the Congress and signed into law by the President.

Entitled means that a person has applied for benefits and has proven his or her right to them for a given period of time.

We, us, or our means the Social Security Administration.

You or your means the insured worker who has applied for benefits or a deceased insured worker on whose social security earnings record someone else has applied.

(b) Other definitions. To make it easier to find them, we have placed other definitions in the sections of this subpart in which they are used.

[47 FR 30734, July 15, 1982, as amended at 62 FR 38450, July 18, 1997]
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4 cases, 1981–2003 · leading case: Martin J. Giacone v. Richard S. Schweiker, Secretary of Health and Human Services
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Martin J. Giacone v. Richard S. Schweiker, Secretary of Health and Human Services (1981) ca7 · cites it 2× “A worker’s “primary insurance amount” is computed on the basis of that individual’s “average monthly wage,” see 20 CFR § 404.203 (c) (1979), and is equal to the worker’s monthly old-age insurance benefit when such benefit is not reduced due to retirement before age 65 or…”
Ralph Stroup v. Jo Ane B. Barnhart (2003) ca11 “See 20 C.F.R. 404.203. 5 . These other factors include "the thoroughness evident in [the agency action’s] consideration, the validity of its reasoning, its consistency with earlier and later pronouncements, and all those factors which give it power to persuade, if lacking power…”
Raymond v. Barnhart (2002) nhd “See 20 C.F.R. § 404.203 . In general, the Commissioner uses earnings within prior periods of disability in the calculation only if the “primary insurance amount would be higher by using the disability years.”
Raymond v. SSA (2002) nhd “See 20 C.F.R. § 404.203 . In general, the Commissioner uses earnings within prior periods of disability in the calculation only if the "primary insurance amount would be higher by using the disability years.”
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