An Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (OBRA) is a Congressional act that contains disparate statutory provisions which were enacted to align reconciliation bills with instructions in a budget resolution. Congress passed Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Acts in 1981,
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) was created in 1976 to combat waste, fraud, and abuse and improve the efficacy of Medicare, Medicaid, and over 100 other Department of Health and Human Services programs. Visit the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) website for more
Payroll tax is tax paid by an employer for each employee and deposited into an IRS account. The Internal Revenue Code imposes two forms of employment tax obligations on an employer that both fall under payroll tax. First, the employer is re
Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS) is a program run by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to help Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients return to work. Under PASS, SSI recipients design a plan that shows how certain assets—such as a car or tools—will help them achieve a work goal.
The acronym POMS means Program Operations Manual System, a set of operational guidelines used as a reference by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to conduct its daily social security activities.
The POMS is divided into the following sections:
A cap of the amount of in-kind support that a person can receive from supplemental security income (SSI). This rule only applies when an individual or couple receives some form of in-kind support or maintenance but does not receive food and shelter from the household that the individual or couple lives in, see: Disability Benefits Help.
Public benefits are forms of assistance from the government, usually directed towards low-income individuals and families. They are also referred to as welfare.
QDOT is an abbreviation for qualified domestic trust, which is a trust created for a surviving spouse who is a non-U.S. citizen to qualify for the marital deduction. It allows a non-U.S. citizen married to a U.S.
QDRO is an abbreviation for qualified domestic relations order, which is a domestic relations order, i.e., a judgment, order, or
QMCSO is an abbreviation for qualified medical child support order, which is an order made by a court or state administrative agency that an alternate beneficiary, such as a participant's child or stepchild, is entitled to be covered by the partici
