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Glossary of Social Security Disability Law Terms
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Social Security: While you work, you pay taxes into
the Social Security system, and when you retire or become
disabled you, your spouse and your dependent children receive
monthly benefits that are based on your reported earnings. The
system also allows your survivors to collect benefits if you
die.
Solvency: The ability to pay off one’s legal debt.
The Social Security system is solvent when it can pay 100
percent of scheduled benefits. Social Security uses payroll
tax revenues to cover payments; if these fell short, it would
draw on the accumulated surpluses in the Social Security Trust
Fund.
Spouse: The person whom you were legally married to
at the time you applied for benefits.
Supplemental Security Income (SSI): A Federal
supplemental income program which helps the aging, blind, and
disabled, who have little or no income.
Survivor Benefits: If you die, benefits will be paid
to: your spouse age 60 or older (50 or older if a disability
rather than death occurs) or at any age if the spouse is
caring for a child under the age of 16; children age 18 or
younger (19 or younger if still in school); and your parents,
if you provide at least half of their financial support.
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