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Railroad compensation, §1308

Railroad recomputation of PIA, §721

Railroad Retirement Board (RRB):

• application for Social Security benefits, §1506
• coverage under Social Security, §967, §1308
• included-excluded rule, §969
• wages and quarters of coverage, §212

Railroad work, §967, §1308

Raising of crop, agricultural labor, §§906-907

Real estate agents and direct sellers, self-employment income, §1135

Real estate broker, net earnings from self-employment, §1215

Real estate dealer, profit from sale of stock in trade, §1214

Real estate, income from rental, §§1213-1214

Real property, excluded resources, SSI, §2163

Recomputation of PIA, §§721-722

Reconsideration of determinations:

• beneficiaries residing abroad, §114
• disability, DDS responsibilities, §115
• disability hearing, §2006
• extension of time for filing request, §2196
• filing requirements, §§531-537
• hearing or review, §§2007-2013
• representative payees, selection process, §1611
• request process, §§2004-2005, §2192
• SVB process, §2723
• time limits, review request, §2001

Reconsideration disability report, §533

Record of birth, evidence established before age 5, §1705

Recovery of overpaid benefits:

• adjustment against overpayment, §§1908-1909
• against equity and good conscience, §1919
• civil suit, §1912
• compromise settlement, §1911
• defeat the purpose defined, §1918
• estate of a deceased overpaid person, §1921
• Federal Claims Collection Act, §1913
• partial withholding of benefits, §1910
• refund of overpayment, §§1907-1910
• representative payee, §1905
• revised prior determination, §1922
• waiver, §§1914-1921
• withholding part of monthly benefit, §§1909-1912

Reduced benefits:

• age, §302, §723, §§726-728
• basic formulas, §724
• child's benefits, §338
• computations, §727
• disability insurance benefits reduced for age, §726
• disabled worker's rate after reduced widow(er)'s or retirement benefit, §503
• factors, §723
• family maximum, §§731-732
• general, §723
• governmental pension offset, §1836
• husband's or wife's, §729
• mother's or father's, family maximum applies, §418
• periodic workers' compensation offset, §1835
• rate factors, §723
• reduction factor adjustment, §728
• reduction months, computation, §725
• restriction of retroactive period, §1514
• retroactivity restrictions, §1514
• saving clauses, §731
• special payments/government pensions, §348
• spouse, §320, §1514
• widow(er)'s, §407
• worker's compensation offset, reduction, §504

Re-entitlement of benefits:

• childhood disability, §341, §517
• extended period of eligibility, §506
• student beneficiary, §341

Referendum, State and local coverage, §1010, §1012, §§1015-1016

Referrals to other governmental or community agencies, §118

Refund of overpaid benefits, §135

Refunds of excess tax contributions, §1019

Regional offices, SSA, §110

Regular or reserve components of Armed Forces, §§948-955

Relatives, deemed available income, eligible individual, SSI, §§2167-2171

Relief from obligation to repay overpayment, §1914

Religious groups:

• exemptions, §1128
• self-employment tax exemptions, §§1128-1132

Religious record of birth or baptism established before age 5, §§1705-1706

Remarriage:

• benefits affected, chart, §1851
• divorce decree effect, §308
• father's or mother's benefits, §417
• restrictions, decree of divorce, §§308-309
• prior spouse, effect on, §1853
• widow(er)'s benefits, §406
• validity, §§309-310

Renewal commissions, §1310

Rental income:

• commercial or business properties, §1216
• exclusion from Social Security, §1213
• farmland, §§1221-1232
• parking lots, warehouses, etc., §1219
• real estate broker, §1215
• real estate held by dealer and investment property, §1214
• rooms or apartments, §1216
• services provided by landlords, §§1217-1218
• two or more property operations, §1220

Reopening and revision of determination or decision, SSI, §2197

Repayment of overpaid benefits, §§1905-1906

Report of Casualty, Form DD-1300, used as intent to claim benefits, §1509

Reporting domestic service wages, §918

Report of foreign work activity, §1827

Report of work activity by beneficiary, §522, §1822

Reporting responsibilities, §106

Representative of claimant during review process, §§2017-2018

Representative payee:

• accounting responsibility, §1623
• advance notice of proposed action, §1612
• agents, SSI, §2146
• appointment policy, §1600
• beneficiaries competency, §1601
• beneficiary over age 18, §1603, §1610
• beneficiary under age 18, §1602, §1609
• benefit disbursements, §1617
• categories of payees, §§1607-1610
• claims of beneficiary's creditors, §1619
• civil suit, overpayment of benefits, §1912
• conservation and investment of surplus funds, §1620
• conserved benefits savings, §1622
• evidence of appointment, §1611
• evidence of capability, §§1615-1622
• fee agreements, §2018
• funds transferred to successor payee, §1622
• needs and maintenance of beneficiary, §1617
• new payee selection, §1613
• objection to selection, §1612
• overpayment liability, §1905
• payment made directly to beneficiary over age 18, §1603
• proper use of benefits, §1617
• repayment of overpayment, §1906
• repayments, liability, §1906
• responsibilities, §1616
• State mental institutions serving as, §1624
• usual order of preference, §§1608-1609

Representative's fees, §2018

Request for extension of time for filing annual report of earnings, §1817

Request for Earnings and Benefit Estimate Statement, Form SSA-7004-SM, §102, §1419

Request for withdrawal of application for benefits, §1516

Request to expedite payment of monthly benefits, §130

Responsibilities of representative payees, §§1615-1622

Responsibility to prove claim, §104

Resources:

• burial spaces/funds, §§2160-2161
• conditional payments, §2164
• converted recipient provisions, §2172
• countable, §2153
• deeming, §§2167-2171
• disaster affect, §2162
• exclusions, §2130, §2151, §§2156-2157
• life insurance, §2159
• liquid/non-liquid, §2150
• non-qualified items, §2151
• ownership, §2152
• real property, §2163
• statutory limits, §2166
• Supplemental Security Income (SSI), §§2148-2149, §2165, §2167
• value, §§2154-2155

Resources not counted as income, SSI, §2130

Restricted countries defined, §§1847-1848

Retirement Insurance Benefits (RIB):

• adjustment of reduction factors at FRA, §728
• amount, §302
• application, §1502
• computations, §300
• delayed retirement credits, §720
• deported worker, §1841
• entitlement requirements, §301
• entitlement to other benefits, §734
• financing the program, §136
• insured status requirements, §211
• monthly benefits, eligibility, §300
• non-coverage, §108
• nonpayment or partial payment situations, §303
• overpayment, adjustment, §§1908-1910
• overpayment liability, §§1905-1906
• partnership rules, §1203
• rate of withholding, §1910
• reduced, §302, §§723-729
• special minimum, §302, §717
• spousal entitlement, §305
• termination of entitlement, §304
• unpaid amount due a deceased person, persons entitled to the underpayment, §1902
• when to file, §1503
• without fault situations, overpayment, §§1915-1916

Retirement systems, Federal employee, §937, §940

Retirement test (see Earnings test)

Retroactive coverage, State and local employment, §1011, §1018

Retroactive effect of application, §301, §347, §§1513-1514

Review by Appeals Council of decision by ALJ, §§2013-2014

Review of assessment disallowance or allowance of credit or refund FICA taxes, §1019

Reviewing offices, §111, §114, §133

Rounding of benefit rates, §738

Rounding of domestic service wages for reporting purposes, §918

Royalties received by writers, §1113