WAG 25-04-05: Quarters of Coverage Codes

DATA ELEMENT CODING DEFINITION
CONDITION CODE 01 Earnings record not found
02 System error, resubmit request
99 Record could not be processed
DATA ELEMENT CODING DESCRIPTION
QUARTERS These codes represent a qualifying quarter:
A Agricultural QQ
C Wage QQ
D Military QQ
F Federal, state or local government wage QQ
G Gift QQ
J Japanese Internment QQ
M Military QQ
R Railroad QQ
S Self-employment QQ
X Wage QQ which may appear for 1951 or 1952
* A covered QQ
QUARTERS
N		 This code does not count as a qualifying quarter:
No earnings
QUARTERS Not enough information on the SSA record to determine if there is a qualifying quarter:
# Questionable QQ, 1952 - 1977
Z Questionable QQ, 1952 - present
DATA ELEMENT DEFINITION
MINIMUM # QQ Count the # in this field as a QQ. Minimum # of qualifying quarters earned during 1937 - 1950. If SSA is able to provide QQ information for 1937 - 1950 under the Quarters section of the screen, no entry will appear in this field, or in the Maximum # QQ field.
MAXIMUM # QQ Do not count as a QQ. Maximum # of qualifying quarters earned during 1937 - 1950. Quarters earned during this period will be less than the maximum possible. If SSA is able to provide QQ information for 1937 - 1950 under the Quarters section of the screen, no entry will appear in this field, or in the Minimum # QQ field.
RAILROAD SERVICE MONTHS Do not count as a QQ. This entry is the # of months of railroad work during 1937 - 1946. May be an indicator of the existence of additional quarters of coverage not shown in the Quarters section of the screen. If railroad quarters for 1937 - 1946 are reflected in the Quarters section, no information will appear.