The Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) is a federal insurance program that provides benefits to retired and/or disabled workers and their dependents (spouses, children) and to survivors of insured workers. The OASDI is the...
benefits law
payroll taxes
Payroll tax is tax paid by an employer for each employee and deposited into an IRS account. The Internal Revenue Code imposes two forms of employment tax obligations on an employer that both fall under payroll tax. First, the employer is...
Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS)
Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS) is a program run by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to help Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients return to work. Under PASS, SSI recipients design a plan that shows how certain assets—such as a...
POMS
The acronym POMS means Program Operations Manual System, a set of operational guidelines used as a reference by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to conduct its daily social security activities.
The POMS is divided...
presumed maximum value (PMV)
A cap of the amount of in-kind support that a person can receive from supplemental security income (SSI). This rule only applies when an individual or couple receives some form of in-kind support or maintenance but does not receive food and shelter...
public benefits
Public benefits are forms of assistance from the government, usually directed towards low-income individuals and families. They are also referred to as welfare. For example, a vacated federal public charge regulation, 84 FR 41292, defined the...
QDOT
QDOT is an abbreviation for qualified domestic trust, which is a trust created for a surviving spouse who is a non-U.S. citizen to qualify for the marital deduction. It allows a non-U.S. citizen married to a U.S. citizen to be eligible for an...
QDRO
QDRO is an abbreviation for qualified domestic relations order, which is a domestic relations order, i.e., a judgment, order, or decree for alimony, support, or marital property rights, and the domestic relations order must transfer all or...
QMCSO
QMCSO is an abbreviation for qualified medical child support order, which is an order made by a court or state administrative agency that an alternate beneficiary, such as a participant's child or stepchild, is entitled to be covered by the...
qualified domestic relations order (QDRO)
Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA") a qualified domestic relations order (QDRO) is a domestic relations order, i.e., a judgment, order, or decree for alimony, support, or marital property rights, which must transfer...