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Today's Terms
Cost-of-living adjustments
Definition:
Each January, your benefits will increase automatically if the cost of living has gone up. For example, if the cost of living has increased by 2 percent, your benefits also will increase by 2 percent.
Impairment-Related Work Expenses (IRWE)
Definition:
The provision that permits the exclusion from earnings of the costs of items and services which are needed in order for a disabled individual to work, which are paid for by the individual, and which are necessarily incurred by that individual because of a physical or mental impairment.
Disability
Definition:
A general term used for the problems a person with a health condition (such as cerebral palsy or deafness) has because of barriers in his or her environment.
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