Index

• Author: Thomas E. Bush
• Pages: 657-666

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INDEX

– A –

Acquiescence Rulings, §105, Appendix 1

Adjudication Officer Project, §274

Administrative Finality, §§370 et seq.

Age, §122

See also Medical-Vocational Guidelines

AIDS, §230

Alcoholism, §§249 et seq.

Aliens, Eligibility of, §136

Amending Decision, §409

Americans With Disabilities Act, §§344, 344.1

Anemia, §236

Annual SSI, Medical, COLA, SGA, TWP and

Earnings for QC Amounts Since 2000,

Appendix 12

Appeals Council

Briefing, §§525 et seq., 527 et seq.

Certified mail, use of, §515

Decision to appeal, §§500 et seq.

Electronic records express status reports, §515.4

Email address for aged court remands, §515.5

Extension to file in federal court, §552

Extension to request review, §513

Extension to submit evidence, §514

Hearing recording, §516

Missing deadline to appeal, §374.1

New evidence, §524

Oral argument, §522

Own motion review, §541

Overview, §154

Remand policy, §526

Reopening, §542

Standards for review, §§523 et seq.

Time limit, §511

Appeals Process, §§150 et seq.

Informal remand, §151

Length of process, Diagram, §157

Application for Benefits, §205.1

Decisional paragraph, §205.1

Retroactivity, §133

Arthritis, §231.4

Assets, SSI, §176.11

Attorney’s Fees

Appeal

Fee agreement process

amount of fee, §§178.3 et seq.

approval of agreement, §178.3

exceptions to fee agreement process, §178.3

Fee petition process, §739

Calculation

past-due benefits, §§178.3, 702

SSI percentage fee, §743

windfall offset applies, §434

Concurrent cases, §§434, 754

Direct Payments, §178.4

Equal Access to Justice Act, §§756, 760 et seq.

Federal court approval, §§750 et seq.

Fee agreement process, §§700 et seq.

Fee petition, §733

Fee petition process, §§720 et seq.

Form

two-tiered fee agreement, §178.3.1

Multiple Representatives

distributing fees, §709.2

when an associate leaves the firm, §709.3

Notice of Intent to File Fee Petition, §407

Regulated in SSI cases, §753

Sample fee agreement

administrative representation, §178.3.1

federal court representation, §758

Sample letter to ALJ re: Failure to Issue Order

Approving or Disapproving Fee Agreement, §406

SSA’s failure to withhold and pay, §754

Time records, §§179, 731

Trust account, use of, §§710, 715, 724

Two-tiered fee agreement and the fee petition pro-

cess, §727

Withheld by SSA, §134

Worksheet, §431

Auxiliary Benefits, §434

– B –

Benefit Level Calculations, §433

Auxiliaries, §434

SSI, §§411 et seq.

See also PIA, §205.4

Bladder Problems, §§230.1, 268

Blindness

SSD, §§143, 232

SSI, §144

Bookkeeping, Accounting and Auditing Clerks, §346.7

Borderline Intellectual Functioning, §244.4

Global Assessment of Functioning (GAF), §244.4

Briefs, §§525 et seq., 527 et seq.

Burden of Proof, §§309, 641