Index A Actuarial balance 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Actuarial balance ratio 1, 2, 3, 4 Actuarial balance, long-range test Actuarial deficit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Actuarial estimates, LR Actuarial estimates, SR Adjusted program amounts Administrative expenses 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Advance tax transfers 1, 2 Amendments Annual balance 1, 2, 3 Assets 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Assumptions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Automatic cost-of-living benefit increase 1, 2, 3 Auxiliary benefits Average benefits Average earnings assumptions Average indexed monthly earnings (AIME) Average wage index 1, 2 Award B Baby-boom generation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Bend points Beneficiaries, DI Beneficiary 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Beneficiary, OASI Benefit payments 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Benefit termination 1, 2 Best estimate 1, 2, 3, 4 Board of Trustees 1, 2, 3 C Close actuarial balance 1, 2 Constant dollars Consumer Price Index 1, 2, 3, 4 Contribution and benefit base 1, 2, 3, 4 Contributions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Cost Cost rate 1, 2, 3, 4 Cost-of-living adjustment Covered earnings 1, 2, 3, 4 Covered employment 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Covered worker 1, 2, 3 Creditable earnings Current dollars Current-payment status 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 D Delayed retirement credit Demographic assumptions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Deterministic model 1, 2 DI beneficiaries Disability 1, 2, 3 Disability conversion ratio Disability incidence rate 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Disability Insurance Trust Fund Disability prevalence rate 1, 2 Disability termination rate Disabled-worker benefit 1, 2 Disbursements 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 E Earnings 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 Earnings test 1, 2, 3 Economic assumptions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Excess wages Expenditures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 F Federal Insurance Contributions Act 1, 2 Fertility assumptions Financial interchange 1, 2, 3, 4 Fiscal year 1, 2, 3 Full advance funding G General Fund of the Treasury 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 General fund reimbursement Gross domestic product 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Gross domestic product projections H High-cost assumptions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 Hospital Insurance program 1, 2 Hospital Insurance Trust Fund I Immigration 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Immigration assumptions Income rate 1, 2, 3, 4 Infinite horizon Inflation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Inflation assumptions Insured population 1, 2 Insured status Interest 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Interest rate 1, 2, 3, 4 Interest rate projections Interest rates Interfund borrowing 1, 2 Intermediate assumptions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 L Labor force projections Legal immigration 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Life expectancy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Life expectancy estimates Long range 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Low-cost assumptions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Lump-sum death payment M Medicare 1, 2 Military service 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 N National average wage index 1, 2 Normal retirement age 1, 2, 3, 4 O OASI beneficiaries Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund 1, 2 Old-law base Other immigration 1, 2, 3, 4 P Par value Partial advance funding Pay-as-you-go financing Payroll taxes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Population estimates Population in the Social Security area 1, 2, 3, 4 Present value Primary insurance amount (PIA) Productivity assumptions Q Quarters of coverage R Railroad Retirement 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Reallocation of tax rates Real-wage differential 1, 2 Recession 1, 2, 3 Retired-worker benefit 1, 2, 3 Retirement age 1, 2, 3, 4 Retirement earnings test 1, 2 Retirement eligibility age S Scenario-based model Self-employment 1, 2, 3 Self-Employment Contributions Act 1, 2 Sensitivity analysis Short range 1, 2, 3 Social Security Act 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Social Security amendments Solvency Special public-debt obligation 1, 2, 3 Stochastic projections Substantial gainful activity 1, 2 Summarized balance Summarized income and cost rates 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Supplemental Security Income Supplementary Medical Insurance program 1, 2 Survivor benefit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Sustainable solvency 1, 2 T Taxable earnings 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Taxable payroll 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Taxable self-employment income Taxable wages 1, 2, 3 Taxation of benefits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Taxes 1, 2, 3, 4 Termination 1, 2 Termination rate 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Test of short-range financial adequacy 1, 2, 3, 4 Total fertility rate 1, 2 Trust fund financial operations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Trust fund ratio 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 U Unemployment projections Unfunded obligation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 Unnegotiated check V Valuation period 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Vocational rehabilitation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Y Year of exhaustion 1, 2, 3, 4, 5