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]