Social Security Administration
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- proper noun
- /ˈsoʊʃəl sɪˈkjʊrɪti ˌædˌmɪnɪˈstreɪʃən/
- US
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Administración del Seguro Social
- Are you appealing a decision made by the Social Security Administration regarding your benefits?
- Social Security Administration (SSA)
- Social Security Administration actuary
- Social Security Administration office
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Backlogs are solely the result of inadequate funding from Congress, resulting in the Social Security Administration's inability to hire the appropriate amount of manpower to properly service.
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The average woman spends about 12 years out of the workforce, according to the Social Security Administration—generally for family purposes.
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I had a similar conversation with a woman who worked for the Social Security Administration about 20 years ago.
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"This is not the Social Security Administration they have worked for all these years," she said.
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I'll never forget my case worker's reaction when I showed her my lifetime earnings history statement from the Social Security Administration.
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Sometime in retirement, you'll start getting a check from the Social Security Administration.
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For more information, visit the Social Security Administration's website (U.S.).
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Photo: Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) during the U.S. Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on the Social Security Administration's disability program.
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Three months later, Hart applied to the Social Security Administration for survivor's benefits.
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Most private insurance companies take their guidance on eligibility from the Social Security Administration's rules.
Synonyms
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A United States government agency that runs Social Security and pays retirement and disability benefits
Surface Forms
Morphology
social + security + administration
The phrase is directly compositional: 'administration' denotes the administrative body and 'Social Security' denotes the social-welfare program, so a learner who knows those words can infer it is the organization that runs Social Security. Although it names a specific U.S. agency (cultural knowledge), the basic function is transparent from the constituents.
Etymology
Social Security Administration comes from Social Security, a system that helps people have money when they are old, sick, or have lost a family member, and Administration, the group that runs a program. So, the name means the government office that runs the program giving retirement, disability, and survivors' benefits.