public benefits
Health - State statutes
Alabama (see Title 22) Alaska- Title 18 Arizona- Title 36 Arkansas (see Title 20) California Colorado (searchable index, see Title 25) Connecticut- Title 19 Delaware- Title 16 District of Columbia (see Title 6) Florida (see Title XI)...
in-kind income
In-kind income is defined as any income other than money or cash. It can be in any form either in the form of benefits received by an employer or the government. Usually this term is used for the benefits received from the government for...
in-kind support and maintenance (ISM)
In-kind support and maintenance (ISM) is an unearned income which is attributable to an SSI recipient in the form of shelter or food. It may be provided by a family member within the same household or by anyone outside of the household. This...
Old Age, Survivors, Disability Insurance (OASDI)
The Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) is a federal insurance program that provides benefits to retired and/or disabled workers and their dependents (spouses, children) and to survivors of insured workers. The OASDI is the...
permanent disability
Permanent disability is a physical or mental impairment that indefinitely diminishes a worker's ability to perform the duties or normal activities that the worker performed before the accident or serious illness. If the injury occurred in the course...
public policy
In general, public policy refers to the concepts that underlie social rules, which are frequently unwritten and implemented through programs as a course of action established and/or legislated, generally by a...
Section 8
Section 8 refers to the Housing Choice Voucher Program, a federally funded program that seeks to help low-income families rent housing in the private market. The Housing Choice Voucher Program is administered at the federal level by the...
Social Security
social security law: an overview
Social security is designed, as the title suggests, to provide security. To protect individuals from unforeseen catastrophes, the government spreads certain risks among all members of society so that no single family...
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSD)
Social Security Disability Insurance is a federal program that pays benefits to injured and disabled workers and certain members of their family if the worker is "insured," meaning that they worked a required amount of time and paid Social Security...
specific intent
Actual intent to perform some act, along with a wish for the consequences that result from that act. Depending on the offense alleged, both tort plaintiffs and criminal prosecutors may need to prove that the defendant acted with specific intent....