SL 10001.101 Purpose of SLCH
Added the last two paragraphs below:
The SLCH was originally a paper publication that existed separately from the rest
of the Social Security's operations manuals and included the necessary information
and materials needed to carry out the Social Security and Medicare coverage provisions
for State and local government employees.
In keeping with its ongoing paper reduction program as well as utilizing a format
that would easily permit continual procedural and editorial changes, Social Security
decided that the SLCH would be made an online publication; and the best way to accomplish
this was to integrate the SLCH into Social Security's online Program
Operations Manual System. As of its December 2003 online publication, the online SLCH became the version of
record, obsoleting previous paper editions, and the only version that will have procedural
updates.