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RM: Records Maintenance
RM 002: The Social Security Number, Policy and General Procedures
RM 010: Form SS-4 Employer's Application for Identification Number
RM 011: Tax Procedures and Employer Reports
RM 013: The Social Security Statement, Form SSA-7005-SM
RM 016: Recordation of Data for Use in Claims Related Activities
RM 022: Investigating and Correcting Wages Reported
RM 025: Unidentified Earnings Items
RM 031: Employer Reports of Earnings
RM 032: Pension Information Processing System
RM 038: Earnings Discrepancies
RM 049: Exemption From Taxation on SEI
RM 050: Correspondence - Filing, Control, Monitoring
RM 051: Alien Nonpayment Provision Policing
RM 102: The Social Security Number, Policy and General Procedures
GN: General
GN 002: Applications and Interviews
GN 003: Evidence
GN 004: Disaster Procedures
GN 005: Selection of Representative Payee
GN 006: Use and Accountability of Benefits
GN 009: Miscellaneous FO and OIO Activity
GN 010: Adjudication
GN 017: Totalization Benefits
GN 022: Overpayments
GN 023: Underpayments
GN 024: Checks
GN 026: Posteligibility
GN 028: Legislative Economic Payment Activities
GN 030: Due Process Requirements for Processing First/Third Party Reports-Title II
GN 031: Appeals
GN 033: Disclosure/Confidentiality of Information
GN 035: Acquiescence Rulings
GN 039: Representation and Representative's Fee
GN 040: Administrative Finality
GN 044: Quality Appraisal
GN 050: Taxation of Benefits
GN 060: Special Intranet/Internet Services
GN 990: Spanish Language
RS: Retirement and Survivors Insurance
RS 002: Benefits and Payments
RS 003: Insured Status
RS 006: Determination of PIAs and Benefit Amounts
RS 013: Support, Dependency, Child in Care
RS 014: Wages
RS 015: Coverage of State and Local Employment
RS 016: Railroad Retirement Board Coordination
RS 017: Military Service
RS 018: Coverage of Self-Employment
RS 019: Coverage and Exceptions
RS 020: Coverage Under International Agreements
RS 021: Employer-Employee Relationship
RS 022: Statute of Limitations
RS 025: Annual Earnings Test
RS 026: Foreign Deductions
RS 028: Sensitive/Critical Cases
RS 030: Northern Mariana Islands Social Security System
DI: Disability Insurance
DI 001: Background and Rationale
DI 100: Background and Overview
DI 101: Disability and Blindness Requirements
DI 105: Substantial Gainful Activity (SGA)
DI 110: Initial Claims Processing
DI 120: Appeals Processing
DI 125: Court Cases
DI 130: Continuing Disability
DI 135: Vocational Rehabilitation
DI 145: Continued Payments to Individuals Participating in a Vocational Rehabilitation or Similar Program
DI 201: DDS Jurisdiction
DI 205: Folder Management
DI 215: State Welfare Plans
DI 220: Sequential Evaluation
DI 225: Case Development Procedures
DI 230: Special Issues
DI 235: Specific Case Instructions
DI 240: Work Issues - Initial/Reconsideration Cases
DI 245: Medical Evaluation
DI 250: Medical-Vocational Evaluation
DI 252: Title XVI Child Claims Based on Disability
DI 255: Onset/Duration/Closed Period
DI 260: Statutory Blindness Cases - Development, Evaluation and Processing Issues
DI 265: Initial Case Processing
DI 270: Reconsideration Case Processing
DI 275: Reopenings, Res Judicata, and Collateral Estoppel
DI 280: Continuing Disability Review Cases
DI 285: CDR Reopenings
DI 290: Reconsideration of Continuing Disability Review (CDR) Cases, and Reopenings Applicable to Disability Hearings (Pre-DHU Processing)
DI 295: Assistance Requests
DI 300: Quality Assurance
DI 310: Representation of Claimants and Inquiries
DI 315: Correspondence
DI 320: Disposition and Routing
DI 325: Court Cases
DI 327: Acquiescence Rulings
DI 330: Disability Hearing Unit Procedures
DI 335: Reference
DI 340: Listing of Impairments - Current
DI 341: Obsolete Versions of Part A, the Listing of Impairments
DI 342: Obsolete Versions of Part B, the Listing of Impairments
DI 395: DDS Fiscal and Administrative Management
DI 401: Processing Center (PC) Processing of Initial Claims
DI 405: Processing Continuing Disability Review Cases
DI 410: Processing Statutory Blindness Cases
DI 420: Processing Appeals Reopenings and Material Received After a Determination
DI 425: Court Cases
DI 435: Processing Foreign Claims
DI 440: Processing Career Railroad Cases
DI 450: Processing End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Medicare Cases
DI 456: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) -- Medicare Waiting Period Waived -- PSC
DI 515: Subsequent Disability Applications
DI 521: Workers' Compensation/Public Disability Benefit (WC/PDB) Offset
DI 525: Court Cases
DI 527: Acquiescence Rulings
DI 550: Ticket to Work
DI 600: Research Studies, Demonstrations and Experiments
DI 700: Paper Modular Disability Folder
DI 710: Processing Disability Claims Filed in the United States by Canadian and Mexican Residents
DI 805: ODARs Case Processing and Management System
DI 806: PC/DPB/ODAR HO Electronic Folder Procedures
DI 808: PC/ODAR HO Certified Electronic Folder Process
DI 810: Electronic Disability Guide (eDG) Procedures for the Electronic Process
DI 900: Drug Addiction and Alcoholism
SI: Supplemental Security Income
SI 005: Eligibility
SI 006: The SSI Application Process
SI 008: Income
SI 011: Resources
SI 012: Grandfathered Income and Resource Provisions
SI 013: Deeming
SI 014: State Supplementary Payments
SI 017: Medicaid Eligibility
SI 018: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
SI 020: Benefits and Payments
SI 021: Title XVI (SSI) Underpayments
SI 022: Overpayments
SI 023: Posteligibility Events
SI 029: State Financial Management
SI 040: Administrative Review, Appeals and Finality - SSI
HI: Health Insurance
HI 002: Computations/Offsets
HI 004: Definitions
HI 006: Covered Services (HI-SMI)
HI 008: Requirement for Entitlement and Termination
HI 009: Evidence of Entitlement
HI 010: Premium Collections
HI 011: Medicare Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amount
HI 012: Claims Process — Provider's, Physician's, and Supplier's Services
HI 022: Medicare Overpayments
HI 030: Eligibility for Subsidized Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage
HI 041: Medicare Violations/Fraud
NL: Notices, Letters and Paragraphs
VB: Special Veterans Benefits
PR: Title II Regional Chief Counsel Precedents
PS: Title XVI Regional Chief Counsel Precedents
SL: State and Local Coverage Handbook
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