Index A Actuarial balance 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 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 Advance tax transfers 1, 2 Amendments Annual balance 1, 2, 3 Assets 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Assumptions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 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 Benefit termination 1, 2 Best estimate 1, 2, 3, 4 Board of Trustees 1, 2, 3 C Close actuarial balance 1, 2 Closed group unfunded obligation 1, 2 Constant dollars Consumer Price Index 1, 2, 3, 4 Contribution and benefit base 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Contributions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Cost Cost rate 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Cost-of-living adjustment Covered earnings 1, 2, 3 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, 6 D Deemed wage credit Delayed retirement credit Demographic assumptions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Deterministic model 1, 2, 3 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, 3, 4 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 Earnings test 1, 2, 3 Economic assumptions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 Excess wages 1, 2 Expenditures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 F Federal Insurance Contributions Act 1, 2 Fertility assumptions Financial interchange 1, 2, 3 Fiscal year 1, 2, 3 Full advance funding G General Fund of the Treasury 1, 2, 3, 4 General fund reimbursement Gross domestic product 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 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 Inflation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Inflation assumptions Insured population 1, 2 Insured status Interest 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Interest rate 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Interest rate projections 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, 8, 9 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 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 Open group unfunded obligation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 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, 5 Present value Primary insurance amount (PIA) Productivity assumptions Q Quarters of coverage R Railroad Retirement 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 Reallocation of tax rates Real-wage differential 1, 2 Recession Retired-worker benefit 1, 2, 3 Retirement age 1, 2, 3, 4 Retirement earnings test 1, 2 Retirement eligibility age 1, 2 S Self-employment 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Self-Employment Contributions Act 1, 2 Sensitivity analysis Short range 1, 2, 3, 4 Social Security Act 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Social Security amendments Solvency 1, 2, 3 Special public-debt obligation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 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 T Taxable earnings 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Taxable payroll 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Taxable self-employment income 1, 2 Taxable wages 1, 2, 3 Taxation of benefits 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Taxes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 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 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 Unnegotiated check 1, 2 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