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Pamphlets and instructions:

• employer's tax guides, §1413
• self-employment tax guides, §1200, §1418
• Social Security office facilities, §117

Parent-child relationship:

• birth or baptismal records, §1707
• child defined, SS purpose, §411
• child-in-care, defined, §312
• court decree as proof, §1710
• court order for support, §1711
• deemed stepchild of worker, §332
• dependency of child, §§333-337
• domestic services by parents, §§926-927
• evidence required, §§1707-1714
• family employment, types, §926
• in-care requirements, not met, §315
• legitimacy of child, §§326-327
• paternity decree and support order, §§1710-1712
• parental control, defined, §313
• parental control/responsibility, §313
• personal services, defined, §314
• proof, §1707
• separation from child, §§316-319
• stepchild, §§331-332
• stepchild/stepparent, written acknowledgement, §1709

Parent defined, §422

Parental control and responsibility, child-in-care, §§312-319

Parent's insurance benefits (See also Father's insurance benefits, Mother's insurance benefits):

• amount, §418, §425
• benefit rate, §418, §425
• entitlement requirements, §421
• in-care requirements, not met, §315
• multiple benefit entitlement, §733
• non-payment situations, §419, §426
• parent defined, §422
• remarriage effect, §417
• separation from child, §§316-319
• support requirements, §§423-424
• terminating events, §420, §427
• widower's entitlement, §415

Parking lot rentals, §1219

Partial adjustment, overpayment of benefits, §1909

Partial withholding of benefits due to overpayment, §§1910-1912

Partnerships:

• association taxable as corporation, §1112
• corporations, §825
• death of partner, effect on taxable year, §1204
• defined, §1107
• determining factors, §1108
• distributive share of net income (or loss), §1200, §1204, §1736
• evidence, §1110
• family, §1109
• family employment exclusion not applicable, §928
• farm, §1234
• joint ventures, §§1107-1108, §1121
• Partnership Return of Income, Form 1065, §1417, §1421, §1736
• retirement payments, exclusions, §1203
• silent partners, coverage, §1102
• stock dividends and interest on bonds as income, §1210
• transfer of capital interest, family, §1111

Past debts of beneficiaries, §1619

Paternity evidence, parent-child relationship, §§1710-1712

Pay envelopes, vouchers, and unsigned wage statements as evidence, §1728

Pay period defined (included-excluded rule), §§968-969

Payment dates, §121

Payments-in-kind, cash-pay test, §§1303-1304

Payments or items received, not income, SSI, §2113

Payments, SVB, §§2612-2615

Payments and government pensions, §348

Peace Corps volunteers, §943

Penal institution, student beneficiary, §344

Penal provision, §143, §1702

Penalties for fraud, false statements, misrepresentation, SSI, §2127

Penalty deductions:

• child no longer in care, §1831
• failure to file timely annual report, §§1820-1821
• foreign work reports, failure to file, §1828
• unreported tip income, §1408

Pension, governmental, §1836

Pensions and retirement pay, §1317

Period of absence from U.S., alien outside the U.S., §1844

Period of coverage that a worker completed under the social security system of a foreign country, §216

Period of disability:

• application, §509
• computation of benefits, exclusions, §711
• continuing reviews, §622
• date of entitlement, §510
• defined, §508
• earnings, §§620-621
• evaluation of disability, §§608-609
• filing requirements, §1502
• medical evidence, §§606-607
• military service before 1957, §210
• performance of work, §618
• protection types, under SS, §500
• quarters of coverage, military service, §210
• special insured status requirements, §208
• substantial gainful activity, §618
• termination of disability, §511
• trial work period, §522

Periodic inspection, material participation, §1228

Periodic workers' compensation payments, §1835

Personal Earnings and Benefit Estimate Statement, Form SSA-7005, §1419

Personal records of worker as evidence, §1733

Personal services, child-in-care, defined, §314

Personal services not required, trade or business, §1102

Physical or mental impairments, §507, §601, §615

Physicians' signed statement of disability, §615

Plan or system (wages):

• annuity or bond purchase plans, §1316
• cafeteria plan, defined, §1341
• Federal thrift savings fund, §1315
• nonqualified deferred compensation plans, §1318
• pensions and retirement pay, §1317
• profit-sharing plan, §1313
• relation to wages explained, §1311
• sick and accident disability pay, §1312
• trust fund, payments under or to, §1314

Plan to Achieve Self-Support (PASS), SSI, §2177

Political subdivision defined, §1003

Postal service contract workers, §1117

Power of attorney, representative payee, §§1609-1610

Prehearing or posthearing conferences, §2010

Premiums (medical insurance benefits):

• payment of, §127, §138

Presumed maximum value rule (PMV), §2144, §2147

Presumption of death, unexplained absence, §1721

Presumptive blindness/disability payments, SSI, §2188

Primary insurance amount (PIA):

• 1990 old-start method, §712
• average monthly earnings, §701
• basic figure, §700
• child's benefit rate, §338
• computation formula, §702
• cost-of-living increase, §719
• defined, §700
• determination, §706
• disabled worker's benefit rate, §503
• figuring PIA under 1990 consolidated methods, §712
• first eligibility, §700, §706
• minimum SS benefit, elimination, §716
• mother's or father's benefit rate, §418
• old-start formula yields, §706
• parent's benefit rate, §425
• primary insurance benefit computation, §710
• principal business activity, defined, §828
• recomputation, §§721-722
• simplified old-start formula, §§707-710
• special minimum, §717
• spouse's benefit rate, §320
• totalization, effect, §216
• widow(er)'s benefit rate, §407
• Windfall Elimination Provision, (WEP), §718
• worker dies before age 62, §700

Privacy Act, disclosure of information, §117

Private home defined, domestic service, §917

Prizes and awards as wages, §1330

Probation and parole violators, SSI, §2120

Processing or packaging of agricultural commodities, §913

Producing a crop or livestock, §1120

Professionals, self-employed, §1100

Profit-sharing plan, §1313

Program service center:

• benefit payments, §110
• functions, §111, §114
• locations, §110
• processing claims, §111
• review and final processing of claims, §105

Programs in foreign countries, international agreements, §970

Programs, Social Security, §100

Proof (see Evidence or proof)

Proper use of benefits by representative payee, §§1616-1622

Property, exclusions, SSI, §2163

Property held for personal use or as investment, §1214

Property necessary for self-support, SSI, §2158

Proprietary functions, State and local employment, §1003

Proration of benefits, SSI, §2184

Public assistance programs (Federal and/or State):

• State supplementation of SSI, §2106, §2181

Public Health Service, commissioned officers, §958

Public information, availability, §117

Public institutions, residents, SSI, §2121

Public office holders, self-employment, §1126

Public record of birth, established before age 5, §§1705-1706

Public transportation systems, §1013

Public transportation systems, State and local employment, §1007