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Vital status ascertainment for the routinely exposed group and the controls was approximately 90% complete using Social Security Administration (SSA) records. For the acutely exposed group, SSA records as well as state death indexes were used to ascertain vital status, which was approximately 92% complete. Five individuals in the routinely exposed group, nine in the acutely exposed group, and 72 controls were lost to follow-up. 

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The Social Security Administration sends an annual statement of earnings history and benefits estimate to every wage earner. You may also phone (800) SSA-1213 or visit the Social Security web site (www.ssa.gov) to request a customized benefits estimate. Also, your employer s pension plan administrator will provide an estimate of your pension benefits. 

Web site of the Social Security Administration. Good source of information and online application for Social Security benefits. 

In the USA, the Social Security Administration s policy5 is to integrate security into the SLC for each application for the following reasons ... 

US Social Security Administration, Systems Security Handbook, Release 5.0, Chapter 6. 

Pharmacists as medicare providers CMS recognizes specific groups of health care professionals as providers of Medicare services. Examples of these professionals are physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurse midwives, and clinical social workers (Social Security Administration, 2007). Each of these professionals may apply to become a provider with Medicare. Unfortunately, if a health care provider is not recognized within the Social Security Act, then he or she cannot be recognized as a provider (Snella et al., 2004). 

Social Security Administration. 2007. Compilation of the Social Security Laws, Part D Miscellaneous Provisions (Sec. 1861s). Available at www.ssa.gov/OP Home/ssact/titlel8/1861.htm, accessed on May 2007. 

Recognition of MCS As a Disability by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Social Security Administration (SSA)... 

Lucas C. 1985. Health hazard evaluation. Report no. HETA-83-136-1398. Social Security Administration, New Brunswick, NJ. NTIS/PB85-181246, issue 14. 

Medicare beneficiary a person designated by the Social Security Administration as entitled to receive Medicare benefits. 

The investigative strategy for a mortality study involves i-dentification of all workers at a location who have been exposed to the product since start-up of the production of the product. Workers who have retired or left employment are traced with the assistance of the Social Security Administration to determine if they are living or deceased. Copies of death certificates are then obtained for all deceased individuals and the causes of death as listed on the death certificates are used to compute death rates. These death rates are then compared to rates in the national population to determine if there are more deaths attributable to a specific cause than one would expect in the national population. 

The number of hours worked by employees is taken from payroll records and reports prepared for the Department of Labor or the Social Security Administration. 

Safety professionals often encounter the Social Security Act when employees incur non-work-related debilitating injuries or illnesses or an anployee is killed off of the job. Safety professionals should be aware that there is a formal application process to the Social Security Administration, and social security benefits are not automatically paid to impaired individuals. Safety professionals shonld be aware that if the claim is denied by the Social Security Administration, there is an extensive administrative appeals process established with the Social Security Act, as well as potential appeal to the federal court system after all administrative appeals are exhausted. 

II. Disability Evaluation Under Social Security, A Handbook for Physicians, Social Security Administration, Baltimore, August 1973. 

Social Security Administration. These benefits may be rednced by workers compensation payments in some states. 

Grainne McKeever, Detecting, Prosecuting and Punishing Benefit Fraud The Social Security Administration (Fraud) Act 1997 , Modem Law Review 62 (March 1999), p. 269. 

Arbeitsschutz) in West-6ermany estimated the losses in 1983 to be more than 15 billion, including wage compensation and medical costs. Latest figures reported by the U.S. Social Security Administration added up to 15.1 billion in 1982 for compensation paid to all workers in the nation who are under workers compensation law. Of this amount, 4.8 billion were spent for medical and hospital costs, and 11.3 billion for wage compensation. 

According to studies sponsored by AARP and the Social Security Administration, the majority of U.S. citizens are particularly concerned about retirement—regardless of age—as well as their ability to have enough to cover their most basic expenses. 

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