POMS Reference

NL: Notices, Letters and Paragraphs

TN 22 (12-17)

MSVC01 Military Service - Caption

Information About Military Service

MSV001 Military Service Not Usable, Other Federal Benefit

When we made our decision about  (1)  claim, we did not use  (2)  active military service for  (3)   (4)   (5)  . This is because another federal benefit is paid based on the same period of service. We cannot use active military service if another federal agency has used it to pay  (6)  a benefit.

Fill-ins:

(1) “your”/SN possessive/FN possessive

(2) “your”/NH SN possessive

(3) month and year

(4) “through”/null

(5) month and year/null

(6) “your”/NH SN

MSVR02 Military Service Not Usable, Less than 90 Days Service

When we made our decision about  (1)  claim we did not use  (2)  active military service for  (3)  . This is because  (4)  did not have at least 90 days of active service.

Fill-ins:

(1) “your”/SN possessive

(2) “your”/NH's SN possessive

(3) month/year through month/year *

(4) “you”/“she”/“he”

(*) indicates that the fill-in is manual

MSV005 Military Service Credits Before 1957 (Used Only with MSV004 or MSV010)

Please let us know if any other federal agency [except the Veteran's Administration] pays  (1)  a benefit based on this military service. Any other federal benefit  (2)   (3)  could affect the amount of  (4)  Social Security benefit.

Fill-ins:

(1) “you”/FN

(2) “you”/“she”/“he”

(3) “receive”/“receives”

(4) “your”/“her”/“his”

MSVR06 Military Service Unproven (Part or All)

We are checking to see if  (1)  active military service for  (2)  can be used in figuring the amount of  (3)  Social Security benefits. We will get in touch with you once we know if we can use this period of military service.

Fill-ins:

(1) “your”/NH's FN

(2) month/year; month/year and month/year; month/year through month/year *

(3) “your”/beneficiary's SN possessive

(*) indicates that the fill-in is manual

MSVR07 Military Service Not Used Due to Type of Discharge

When we made our decision about  (1)  claim, we did not use  (2)  active military service for  (3)  . We cannot use this service because of the type of discharge  (4)   (5)  .

Fill-ins:

(1) “your”/SN possessive/FN possessive

(2) “your”/NH's FN possessive

(3) month/year; month/year and month/year; month/year through month/year *

(4) “you”/NH's FN

(5) “have”/“has”

(*) indicates that the fill-in is manual

MSV010 Military Service Used

In addition to  (1)  earnings, we used  (2)  active military service to figure the amount of  (3)  Social Security benefits.

Fill-ins:

(1) “your”/NH FN possessive

(2) “your”/“her”/“his”

(3) “your”/SN possessive