| ERISA | Employee Retirement Income Security Act |
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| SSDI | Social Security Disability Income; Supplemental Security Disability Income |
| SSI | segmental sequential irradiation; shoulder subluxation inhibition; small-scale integration; Social S... |
| CCRC | comprehensive care retirement community; continuing care retirement community |
| NACED | National Advisory Council on the Employment of the Disabled |
| ERISA | Employee Retirement Income Security Act |
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| ERISA | Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 |
| the Act | the Social Security Act |
| SSI | Supplemental Security Income |
| EEOC | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
| employee retirement income security act | A 1974 federal act which preempts states' rights with regard to workers' pension benefits and employee benefits. It does not affect the benefits and rights of employees whose employer is self-insured. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| retirement | 1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. "O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline." (Goldsmith) "Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books." (Thomson) 2. A place of seclusion or privacy; a place to which one withdraws or retreats; a private abode. "This coast full of princely retirements for the sumptousness of their buildings and nobleness of the plantations." (Evelyn) "Caprea had been the retirement of Augustus." (Addison) Synonym: Solitude, withdrawment, departure, retreat, seclusion, privacy. See Solitude. Origin: Cf. F. Retirement. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| employment | The state of being engaged in an activity or service for wages or salary. (12 Dec 1998) |
| employment, supported | Paid work for mentally or physically disabled persons, taking place in regular or normal work settings. It may be competitive employment (work that pays minimum wage) or employment with subminimal wages in individualised or group placement situations. It is intended for persons with severe disabilities who require a range of support services to maintain employment. Supported employment differs from sheltered workshops in that work in the latter takes place in a controlled working environment. Federal regulations are authorised and administered by the u.s. Department of education, office of special education and rehabilitative services. (12 Dec 1998) |
| income | 1. A coming in; entrance; admittance; ingress; infusion. "More abundant incomes of light and strength from God." (Bp. Rust) "At mine income I louted low." (Drant) 2. That which is caused to enter; inspiration; influence; hence, courage or zeal imparted. "I would then make in and steep My income in their blood." (Chapman) 3. That gain which proceeds from labour, business, property, or capital of any kind, as the produce of a farm, the rent of houses, the proceeds of professional business, the profits of commerce or of occupation, or the interest of money or stock in funds, etc.; revenue; receipts; salary; especially, the annual receipts of a private person, or a corporation, from property; as, a large income. "No fields afford So large an income to the village lord." (Dryden) 4. <physiology> That which is taken into the body as food; the ingesta; sometimes restricted to the nutritive, or digestible, portion of the food. See Food. Opposed to output. Income bond, a bond issued on the income of the corporation or company issuing it, and the interest of which is to be paid from the earnings of the company before any dividends are made to stockholders; issued chiefly or exclusively by railroad companies. Income tax, a tax upon a person's incomes, emoluments, profits, etc, or upon the excess beyond a certain amount. Synonym: Gain, profit, proceeds, salary, revenue, receipts, interest, emolument, produce. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| income tax | Tax on the net income of an individual, organization, or business. (12 Dec 1998) |
| computer security | Protective measures against unauthorised access to or interference with computer operating systems, telecommunications, or data structures, especially the modification, deletion, destruction, or release of data in computers. It includes methods of forestalling interference by computer viruses or so-called computer hackers aiming to compromise stored data. (12 Dec 1998) |
| security measures | Regulations to assure protection of property and equipment. (12 Dec 1998) |
| social security | Government sponsored social insurance programs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| united states social security administration | The social security administration administers a national program of contributory social insurance whereby employees, employers, and the self-employed pay contributions that are pooled in special trust funds. When earnings are reduced because of retirement, death, or disability, monthly benefits are paid to partially replace lost earnings. Part of the contributions go into a separate hospital insurance trust fund for workers when they become 65 to provide help with medical expenses. Other programs include the supplemental social security income program for the aged, blind, and disabled and the old age survivors and disability insurance program. Ssa became an independent agency march 31, 1995. It had previously been part of the department of health, education, and welfare, later the department of health and human services. (12 Dec 1998) |
| act | 1. That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed. "That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love." (Wordsworth) Hence, in specific uses: The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress. A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done. A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student. 2. A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence. "The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be." (Hooker) 3. Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing). "In act to shoot." "This woman was taken . . . In the very act." (John viii. 4) Act of attainder. An inevitable accident; such extraordinary interruption of the usual course of events as is not to be looked for in advance, and against which ordinary prudence could not guard. Act of grace, an expression often used to designate an act declaring pardon or amnesty to numerous offenders, as at the beginning of a new reign. Act of indemnity, a statute passed for the protection of those who have committed some illegal act subjecting them to penalties. Act in pais, a thing done out of court (anciently, in the country), and not a matter of record. Synonym: See Action. Origin: L. Actus, fr. Agere to drive, do: cf. F. Acte. See Agent. 1. To exert power; to produce an effect; as, the stomach acts upon food. 2. To perform actions; to fulfill functions; to put forth energy; to move, as opposed to remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will. "He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest." (Pope) 3. To behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices; to bear or deport one's self; as, we know not why he has acted so. 4. To perform on the stage; to represent a character. "To show the world how Garrick did not act." (Cowper) To act as or for, to do the work of; to serve as. To act on, to regulate one's conduct according to. To act up to, to equal in action; to fulfill in practice; as, he has acted up to his engagement or his advantages. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| resource conservation and recovery act | (RCRA) A federal law regulating solid and hazardous waste. RCRA governs the generation, storage, treatment, transport, and disposal of hazardous waste. (05 Dec 1998) |
| public utility regulatory policies act | (PURPA) A federal law requiring a utility to buy the power produced by a qualifying facility at a price equal to that which the utility would otherwise pay if it were to build its own power plant or buy power from another source. (05 Dec 1998) |
| national environmental policy act | A federal law enacted in 1969 that requires all federal agencies to consider and analyse the environmental impacts of any proposed action. NEPA requires an environmental impact statement for major federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the environment. NEPA requires federal agencies to inform and involve the public in the agency's decision making process and to consider the environmental impacts of the agency's decision. (05 Dec 1998) |
| orphan drug act | Law giving incentives to companies developing a drug for a rare disease. The act gives the developer of the first drug of any one type a 7-year exclusive right to market the new drug. (14 Nov 1997) |
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