LII's Social Security Library

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This set of reference materials covers issues of entitlement and benefit calculation arising out of the set of programs popularly referred to as Social Security. These programs touch the lives of well over 90 percent of all persons living or working in the United States and provide critical income to those who have retired or ceased working due to severe physical or mental disability. They also provide income to the other members of a worker's family when the worker has retired, become disabled, or died. Both individually and collectively the amounts are very large. For roughly a two-thirds of those receiving Social Security, the benefits represent at least half their total income. Total payments amount to well over $500 billion a year.

Martin on Social Security

At the heart of this library is a reference work designed to organize all of its contents, issue by issue, Martin on Social Security. While those who are looking for a particular regulation or ruling, section of the Act or court decision can go directly to it using the table of contents on the right, those who are pursuing a particular question or topic will want to use Martin on Social Security. For each topic that it covers, that reference provides direct links to the relevant portions of the Social Security Act, Code of Federal Regulations, Hallex, and POMS as well as all important cases and rulings. It also explains the importance of these various sources of Social Security Law and provides general background on the program.

Martin on Social Security with accompanying library first appeared on LEXIS in 1990. From 1994 through 1998 it was published on CD-ROM by Clark, Boardman, Callaghan. In May, 2000 all rights in the reference and library returned to the author who has now converted them for Web delivery by the LII.

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