20 CFR § 404.203 - Definitions.

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# 404.203 Definitions.

(a) *General definitions.* As used in this subpart—

*Ad hoc increase in primary insurance amounts* means an increase in primary insurance amounts enacted by the Congress and signed into law by the President.

*Entitled* means that a person has applied for benefits and has proven his or her right to them for a given period of time.

*We, us,* or *our* means the Social Security Administration.

*You* or *your* means the insured worker who has applied for benefits or a deceased insured worker on whose social security earnings record someone else has applied.

(b) *Other definitions.* To make it easier to find them, we have placed other definitions in the sections of this subpart in which they are used.

[47 FR 30734, July 15, 1982, as amended at 62 FR 38450, July 18, 1997]