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20 CFR 404.140 - What is a quarter of coverage. | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute
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§ 404.140 What is a quarter of coverage.
(a)General. A quarter of coverage (QC) is the basic unit of social security coverage used in determining a worker's insured status. We credit you with QCs based on your earnings covered under social security.
(b)How we credit QCs based on earnings before 1978 (General). Before 1978, wages were generally reported on a quarterly basis and self-employment income was reported on an annual basis. For the most part, we credit QCs for calendar years before 1978 based on your quarterly earnings. For these years, as explained in § 404.141, we generally credit you with a QC for each calendar quarter in which you were paid at least $50 in wages or were credited with at least $100 of self-employment income. Section 404.142 tells how self-employment income derived in a taxable year beginning before 1978 is credited to specific calendar quarters for purposes of § 404.141.
(c)How we credit QCs based on earnings after 1977 (General). After 1977, both wages and self-employment income are generally reported on an annual basis. For calendar years after 1977, as explained in § 404.143, we generally credit you with a QC for each part of your total covered earnings in a calendar year that equals the amount required for a QC in that year. Section 404.143 also tells how the amount required for a QC will be increased in the future as average wages increase. Section 404.144 tells how self-employment income derived in a taxable year beginning after 1977 is credited to specific calendar years for purposes of § 404.143.
(d)When a QC is acquired and when a calendar quarter is not a QC (general). Section 404.145 tells when a QC is acquired and § 404.146 tells when a calendar quarter cannot be a QC. These rules apply when we credit QCs under § 404.141 or § 404.143.
Title 20 published on 20-May-2017 03:30The following are ALL rules, proposed rules, and notices (chronologically) published in the Federal Register relating to 20 CFR Part 404 after this date.2017-03-27; vol. 82 # 57 - Monday, March 27, 201782 FR 15132 - Revisions to Rules Regarding the Evaluation of Medical Evidence; Correction
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2017-06023 RIN0960-AH51 Docket No.SSA-2012-0035 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rules; correction. Effective March 27, 2017. 20 CFR Parts 404 and 416 SummaryWe published a document in the Federal Register on January 18, 2017, that revises our rules. That document inadvertently contained technical errors. This document amends and corrects the final rules.
2017-01-23; vol. 82 # 13 - Monday, January 23, 201782 FR 7648 - Unsuccessful Work Attempts and Expedited Reinstatement Eligibility; Correction
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2017-00076 RIN0960-AH66 Docket No.SSA-2014-0016 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rules; correction. The corrections are effective April 17, 2017. 20 CFR Part 404 SummaryWe published a document in the Federal Register revising our rules on October 17, 2016. That document inadvertently omitted a corresponding technical change to § 404.1592f(a) when § 404.1592c(a) was amended with the final rule publication. By making this technical correction we will also need to redesignate the amendatory instructions to incorporate the missing section changes to § 404.1592f(a). This document corrects the final regulation by making these technical corrections.
2017-01-18; vol. 82 # 11 - Wednesday, January 18, 201782 FR 5844 - Revisions to Rules Regarding the Evaluation of Medical Evidence
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2017-00455 RIN0960-AH51 Docket No.SSA-2012-0035 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rules. These final rules are effective on March 27, 2017. 20 CFR Parts 404 and 416 SummaryWe are revising our medical evidence rules. The revisions include redefining several key terms related to evidence, revising our rules about acceptable medical sources (AMS), revising how we consider and articulate our consideration of medical opinions and prior administrative medical findings, revising our rules about medical consultants (MC) and psychological consultants (PC), revising our rules about treating sources, and reorganizing our evidence regulations for ease of use. These revisions conform our rules to the requirements of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (BBA), reflect changes in the national healthcare workforce and in the manner that individuals receive medical care, and emphasize the need for objective medical evidence in disability and blindness claims. We expect that these changes will simplify our rules to make them easier to understand and apply, and allow us to continue to make accurate and consistent disability determinations and decisions.
2016-12-16; vol. 81 # 242 - Friday, December 16, 201681 FR 90987 - Ensuring Program Uniformity at the Hearing and Appeals Council Levels of the Administrative Review Process
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2016-30103 RIN0960-AH71 Docket No.SSA-2014-0052 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rule. This final rule will be effective on January 17, 2017. However, compliance is not required until May 1, 2017. 20 CFR Parts 404, 405 and 416 SummaryWe are revising our rules so that more of our procedures at the hearing and Appeals Council levels of our administrative review process are consistent nationwide. We anticipate that these nationally consistent procedures will enable us to administer our disability programs more efficiently and better serve the public.
2016-12-02; vol. 81 # 232 - Friday, December 2, 201681 FR 86915 - Revised Medical Criteria for Evaluating Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection and for Evaluating Functional Limitations in Immune System Disorders
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2016-28843 RIN0960-AG71 Docket No.SSA-2007-0082 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rule. These rules are effective January 17, 2017. 20 CFR Part 404 SummaryWe are revising the criteria in the Listing of Impairments (listings) that we use to evaluate claims involving human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in adults and children under titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act (Act). We also are revising the introductory text of the listings that we use to evaluate functional limitations resulting from immune system disorders. The revisions reflect our program experience, advances in medical knowledge, our adjudicative experience, recommendations from a commissioned report, and comments from medical experts and the public.
81 FR 86928 - Revised Medical Criteria for Evaluating Mental Disorders; Correction
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2016-28845 RIN0960-AF69 Docket No.SSA-2007-0101 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rules; correction. These rules are effective January 17, 2017. 20 CFR Part 404 SummaryWe published a document in the Federal Register revising our rules on September 26, 2016. That document inadvertently included incorrect amendatory instructions to appendix 1 to subpart P of 20 CFR part 404, removing section 114.00I and redesignating section 114.00J as section 114.00I. This document corrects the final regulation by removing that amendatory instruction.
2016-10-24; vol. 81 # 205 - Monday, October 24, 201681 FR 73027 - Extension of the Expiration Date for State Disability Examiner Authority To Make Fully Favorable Quick Disability Determinations and Compassionate Allowance Determinations
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2016-25565 RIN0960-AH94 Docket No.SSA-2016-0014 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rule. This final rule is effective October 24, 2016. 20 CFR Parts 404 and 416 SummaryWe are extending, until December 28, 2018, the expiration date of our disability examiner authority (DEA) rule, which authorizes State agency disability examiners to make fully favorable determinations without the approval of a State agency medical or psychological consultant in claims that we consider under our quick disability determination (QDD) and compassionate allowance (CAL) processes. This is our last extension of this rule because we will phase out the use of DEA during the extension period under section 832 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (BBA). This extension provides us the time necessary to take all of the administrative actions we need to take in order to reinstate uniform use of medical and psychological consultants. The current rule will expire on November 11, 2016. In this final rule, we are changing the November 11, 2016 expiration or “sunset” date to December 28, 2018, extending the authority for 2 years and 1 month. This is the final extension of our DEA rule. On December 28, 2018, at the conclusion of this extension, the authority for this test will terminate. We are making no other changes.
2016-10-17; vol. 81 # 200 - Monday, October 17, 201681 FR 71367 - Unsuccessful Work Attempts and Expedited Reinstatement Eligibility
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2016-24873 RIN0960-AH66 Docket No.SSA-2014-0016 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rules. These final rules will be effective November 16, 2016, except for the amendments to §§ 404.1592c and 416.999a, which will be effective April 17, 2017. 20 CFR Parts 404 and 416 SummaryThese rules finalize the rules we proposed in our notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), published on May 11, 2016. In these rules, we remove some of the requirements for evaluation of an unsuccessful work attempt (UWA) that lasts between 3 and 6 months, allow previously entitled beneficiaries to apply for expedited reinstatement (EXR) in the same month they stop performing substantial gainful activity (SGA), and provide that provisional benefits will begin the month after the request for EXR if the beneficiary stops performing SGA in the month of the EXR request. These changes will simplify our policies and make them easier for the public to understand.
2016-09-26; vol. 81 # 186 - Monday, September 26, 201681 FR 66138 - Revised Medical Criteria for Evaluating Mental Disorders
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2016-22908 RIN0960-AF69 Docket No.SSA-2007-0101 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rules. These rules are effective January 17, 2017. 20 CFR Parts 404 and 416 SummaryWe are revising the criteria in the Listing of Impairments (listings) that we use to evaluate claims involving mental disorders in adults and children under titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act (Act). The revisions reflect our program experience, advances in medical knowledge, recommendations from a commissioned report, and public comments we received in response to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM).
2016-09-23; vol. 81 # 185 - Friday, September 23, 201681 FR 65536 - Evidence From Excluded Medical Sources of Evidence
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2016-22909 RIN0960-AH92 Docket No.SSA-2016-0015 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rules. These final rules will be effective on November 2, 2016. 20 CFR Parts 404 and 416 SummaryIn accordance with section 812 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (BBA section 812), these rules explain how we will address evidence furnished by medical sources that meet one of BBA section 812&apos;s exclusionary categories (excluded medical sources of evidence) as described below. Under these new rules, we will not consider evidence furnished by an excluded medical source of evidence unless we find good cause to do so. We identify five circumstances in which we may find good cause. In these rules, we also require excluded medical sources of evidence to notify us of their excluded status under section 223(d)(5)(C)(i) of the Social Security Act (Act), as amended, in writing each time they furnish evidence to us that relates to a claim for initial or continuing benefits under titles II or XVI of the Act. These rules will allow us to fulfill obligations that we have under BBA section 812.
2016-09-19; vol. 81 # 181 - Monday, September 19, 201681 FR - Revised Medical Criteria for Evaluating Respiratory System Disorders
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.C1-2016-13275 RIN0960-AF58 Docket No.SSA-2006-0149 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 20 CFR Parts 404 and 416 Summary
2016-09-09; vol. 81 # 175 - Friday, September 9, 201681 FR 62560 - Revisions to Rules Regarding the Evaluation of Medical Evidence
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2016-21358 RIN0960-AH51 Docket No.SSA-2012-0035 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). To ensure that we consider your comments, we must receive them by no later than November 8, 2016. 20 CFR Parts 404 and 416 SummaryWe are proposing several revisions to our medical evidence rules. The proposals include redefining several key terms related to evidence, revising our list of acceptable medical sources (AMS), revising how we consider and articulate our consideration of medical opinions and prior administrative medical findings, revising who can be a medical consultant (MC) and psychological consultant (PC), revising our rules about treating sources, and reorganizing our evidence regulations for ease of use. These proposed revisions would conform our rules with the requirements of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (BBA), reflect changes in the national healthcare workforce and in the manner that individuals receive primary medical care, simplify and reorganize our rules to make them easier to understand and apply, allow us to continue to make accurate and consistent decisions, and emphasize the need for objective medical evidence in disability and blindness claims.
2016-08-16; vol. 81 # 158 - Tuesday, August 16, 201681 FR 54520 - Revisions to Rules of Conduct and Standards of Responsibility for Appointed Representatives
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2016-19384 RIN0960-AH63 Docket No.SSA-2013-0044 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Notice of proposed rulemaking. To ensure that your comments are considered, we must receive them no later than October 17, 2016. 20 CFR Parts 404 and 416 SummaryWe propose to revise our rules of conduct and standards of responsibility for representatives. We also propose to update and clarify procedures we use when we bring charges against a representative for violating our rules of conduct and standards of responsibilities for representatives. These changes are necessary to better protect the integrity of our administrative process and further clarify representatives&apos; currently existing responsibilities in their conduct with us. The changes to our rules are not meant to suggest that any specific conduct is permissible under our existing rules; instead, we seek to ensure that our rules of conduct and standards of responsibility are clearer as a whole and directly address a broader range of inappropriate conduct.
2016-08-04; vol. 81 # 150 - Thursday, August 4, 201681 FR 51412 - Ensuring Program Uniformity at the Hearing and Appeals Council Levels of the Administrative Review Process
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2016-18367 RIN0960-AH71 Docket No.SSA-2014-0052 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM); reopening of the comment period. The comment period for the NPRM published on July 12, 2016 (81 FR 45079), is extended by 15 days and thus will end on August 26, 2016. 20 CFR Part 404 SummaryOn July 12, 2016, we published in the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for Ensuring Program Uniformity at the Hearing and Appeals Council Levels of the Administrative Review Process. We provided a 30-day comment period ending on August 11, 2016. We are extending the comment period for 15 days.
2016-08-03; vol. 81 # 149 - Wednesday, August 3, 201681 FR 51100 - Extension of Expiration Dates for Four Body System Listings
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2016-18051 RIN0960-AI03 Docket No.SSA-2016-0023 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rule. This final rule is effective on August 3, 2016. 20 CFR Part 404 SummaryWe are extending the expiration dates of the following body systems in the Listing of Impairments (listings) in our regulations: Musculoskeletal System, Cardiovascular System, Digestive System, and Skin Disorders. We are making no other revisions to these body systems in this final rule. This extension ensures that we will continue to have the criteria we need to evaluate impairments in the affected body systems at step three of the sequential evaluation processes for initial claims and continuing disability reviews.
2016-07-12; vol. 81 # 133 - Tuesday, July 12, 201681 FR 45079 - Ensuring Program Uniformity at the Hearing and Appeals Council Levels of the Administrative Review Process
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2016-16265 RIN0960-AH71 Docket No.SSA-2014-0052 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). To ensure that your comments are considered, we must receive them no later than August 11, 2016. 20 CFR Parts 404, 405 and 416 SummaryWe propose to revise our rules so that more of our procedures at the administrative law judge (ALJ) and Appeals Council levels of our administrative review process are consistent nationwide. We anticipate that these nationally consistent procedures will enable us to administer our disability programs more efficiently and better serve the public.
2016-07-01; vol. 81 # 127 - Friday, July 1, 201681 FR 43048 - Revised Medical Criteria for Evaluating Neurological Disorders
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2016-15306 RIN0960-AF35 Docket No.SSA-2006-0140 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rule. This rule is effective September 29, 2016. 20 CFR Part 404 SummaryWe are revising the criteria in the Listing of Impairments (listings) that we use to evaluate disability claims involving neurological disorders in adults and children under titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act (Act). These revisions reflect our program experience; advances in medical knowledge, treatment, and methods of evaluating neurological disorders; comments we received from medical experts and the public at an outreach policy conference; responses to an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM); and public comments we received in response to a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) and a Federal Register notice that reopened the NPRM comment period.
2016-06-24; vol. 81 # 122 - Friday, June 24, 201681 FR 41213 - Extension of Effective Date for Temporary Pilot Program Setting the Time and Place for a Hearing Before an Administrative Law Judge
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2016-14974 RIN0960-AI02 Docket No.SSA-2016-0019 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rule. This final rule is effective June 24, 2016. 20 CFR Parts 404 and 416 SummaryWe are extending for one year our pilot program that authorizes the agency to set the time and place for a hearing before an administrative law judge (ALJ). Extending the pilot program continues our commitment to improve the efficiency of our hearing process and to maintain a hearing process that results in accurate, high-quality decisions for claimants. The current pilot program will expire on August 12, 2016. In this final rule, we are extending the effective date to August 11, 2017. We are making no other changes.
2016-06-10; vol. 81 # 112 - Friday, June 10, 201681 FR 37557 - Evidence From Statutorily Excluded Medical Sources
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2016-13744 RIN0960-AH92 Docket No.SSA-2016-0015 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM). To ensure that we consider your comments, we must receive them by no later than August 9, 2016. 20 CFR Parts 404 and 416 SummaryIn accordance with section 812 of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (BBA section 812), we propose to revise our rules to explain how we would address evidence furnished by medical sources that meet one of BBA section 812&apos;s exclusionary categories (statutorily excluded medical sources). Under this proposed rule, we would not consider evidence furnished by a statutorily excluded medical source unless we find good cause to do so. We propose several circumstances in which we would find good cause, and we also propose to require statutorily excluded medical sources to notify us of their excluded status when they furnish evidence to us. These rules would allow us to fulfill obligations that we have under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 (BBA).
2016-06-09; vol. 81 # 111 - Thursday, June 9, 201681 FR 37138 - Revised Medical Criteria for Evaluating Respiratory System Disorders
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2016-13275 RIN0960-AF58 Docket No.SSA-2006-0149 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rule. These final rules are effective October 7, 2016. 20 CFR Parts 404 and 416 SummaryWe are revising the criteria in the Listing of Impairments (listings) that we use to evaluate claims involving respiratory disorders in adults and children under titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act (Act). The revisions reflect our program experience and advances in medical knowledge since we last comprehensively revised this body system in 1993, as well as comments we received from medical experts and the public.
2016-05-24; vol. 81 # 100 - Tuesday, May 24, 201681 FR 32643 - Extension of Expiration Dates for Two Body System Listings
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2016-12182 RIN0960-AI00 Docket No.SSA-2016-0016 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rule. This final rule is effective on May 24, 2016. 20 CFR Part 404 SummaryWe are extending the expiration dates of the following body systems in the Listing of Impairments (listings) in our regulations: Endocrine Disorders and Immune System Disorders. We are making no other revisions to these body systems in this final rule. This extension ensures that we will continue to have the criteria we need to evaluate impairments in the affected body systems at step three of the sequential evaluation processes for initial claims and continuing disability reviews.
2016-05-11; vol. 81 # 91 - Wednesday, May 11, 201681 FR 29212 - Unsuccessful Work Attempts and Expedited Reinstatement Eligibility
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2016-10932 RIN0960-AH66 Docket No.SSA-2014-0016 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Notice of proposed rulemaking. To ensure that your comments are considered, we must receive them no later than July 11, 2016. 20 CFR Parts 404, 411, and 416 SummaryWe propose to remove some of the requirements for evaluation of an unsuccessful work attempt (UWA) that lasts between 3 and 6 months. We also propose to allow previously entitled beneficiaries to apply for expedited reinstatement (EXR) in the same month they stop performing substantial gainful activity (SGA). Provisional benefits will begin the month after the request for EXR if the beneficiary stops performing SGA in the month of the EXR request. These changes would simplify our policies and make them easier for the public to understand.
2016-04-04; vol. 81 # 64 - Monday, April 4, 201681 FR 19032 - Extension of the Workers&apos; Compensation Offset From Age 65 to Full Retirement Age—Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2016-07602 RIN0960-AH85 Docket No.SSA-2015-0018 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rule. This final rule is effective April 4, 2016. 20 CFR Part 404 SummaryThis final rule adopts, with one additional change, the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that we published in the Federal Register on January 4, 2016. This final rule revises our rules by incorporating changes made by the ABLE Act to section 224(a) of the Social Security Act (Act). Under this final rule, the age at which disability insurance benefits (DIB) are no longer subject to reduction (offset) based on receipt of workers&apos; compensation or public disability benefits (WC/PDB) changes from age 65 to the day the individual attains full retirement age.
2016-02-05; vol. 81 # 24 - Friday, February 5, 201681 FR 6170 - Returning Evidence at the Appeals Council Level
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2016-02267 RIN0960-AH64 Docket No.SSA-2013-0061 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rule. Effective Date: This final rule is effective February 5, 2016. 20 CFR Parts 404 and 416 SummaryThis final rule adopts the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that we published in the Federal Register on October 21, 2015. This final rule revises our rules regarding returning evidence at the Appeals Council (AC) level. Under this final rule, the AC will no longer return additional evidence it receives when the AC determines the additional evidence does not relate to the period on or before the date of the administrative law judge (ALJ) decision.
2016-01-04; vol. 81 # 1 - Monday, January 4, 201681 FR 41 - Extension of the Workers&apos; Compensation Offset From Age 65 to Full Retirement Age—Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2015-33036 RIN0960-AH85 Docket No.SSA-2015-0018 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). To ensure that we consider your comments, we must receive them by no later than February 3, 2016. 20 CFR Part 404 SummaryWe propose to amend our regulations to incorporate changes made by the ABLE Act to section 224(a) of the Social Security Act. The ABLE Act amends section 224(a) by changing the age at which disability insurance benefits (DIB) are no longer subject to reduction (offset) based on receipt of workers&apos; compensation or public disability benefits (WC/PDB), from age 65 to the day the individual attains full retirement age. This change will make our rules consistent with the provisions of the Act, as amended by the ABLE Act.
2015-10-30; vol. 80 # 210 - Friday, October 30, 201580 FR 66843 - Vocational Factors of Age, Education, and Work Experience in the Adult Disability Determination Process; Extending of the Comment Period
2015-03-20; vol. 80 # 54 - Friday, March 20, 201580 FR 14828 - Submission of Evidence in Disability Claims
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2015-05921 RIN0960-AH53 Docket No.SSA-2012-0068 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rule. This rule is effective April 20, 2015. 20 CFR Parts 404, 405, and 416 SummaryWe are clarifying our regulations to require you to inform us about or submit all evidence known to you that relates to your disability claim, subject to two exceptions for certain privileged communications. This requirement includes the duty to submit all evidence that relates to your disability claim received from any source in its entirety, unless you previously submitted the same evidence to us or we instruct you otherwise. We are also requiring your representative to help you obtain the information or evidence that we require you to submit under our regulations. These modifications to our regulations will better describe your duty to submit all evidence that relates to your disability claim and enable us to have more complete case records on which to make more accurate disability determinations and decisions.
2015-01-06; vol. 80 # 3 - Tuesday, January 6, 201580 FR 395 - Revisions to Direct Fee Payment Rules
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2014-30921 RIN0960-AH21 Docket No.SSA-2010-0025 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rules. These rules are effective February 5, 2015. 20 CFR Parts 404 and 416 SummaryWe are adopting, with two revisions, our interim final rules that implemented amendments to the Social Security Act (Act) made by the Social Security Disability Applicants&apos; Access to Professional Representation Act of 2010 (PRA). The interim final rules made permanent the direct fee payment rules for eligible non-attorney representatives under titles II and XVI of the Act and for attorney representatives under title XVI of the Act. They also revised some of our eligibility policies for non-attorney representatives under titles II and XVI of the Act. Based on public comment and subsequent inquiries, we are revising our rules to clarify that an eligible non-attorney representative&apos;s liability insurance policy must include malpractice coverage. We are also reaffirming that a business entity legally permitted to provide the required insurance in the States in which the non-attorney representative conducts business must underwrite the policies.
2015-01-02; vol. 80 # 1 - Friday, January 2, 201580 FR 1 - Extension of Expiration Dates for Several Body System Listings
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2014-30739 RIN0960-AH72 Docket No.SSA-2014-0068 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rule. This final rule is effective on January 2, 2015. 20 CFR Part 404 SummaryWe are extending the expiration dates of the following body systems in the Listing of Impairments (listings) in our regulations: Growth Impairment, Musculoskeletal System, Respiratory System, Cardiovascular System, Digestive System, Hematological Disorders, Skin Disorders, Neurological, and Mental Disorders. We are making no other revisions to these body systems in this final rule. This extension will ensure that we continue to have the criteria we need to evaluate impairments in the affected body systems at step three of the sequential evaluation processes for initial claims and continuing disability reviews.
2014-11-13; vol. 79 # 219 - Thursday, November 13, 201479 FR 67349 - Revised Medical Criteria for Evaluating Genitourinary Disorders; Correction
2014-07-18; vol. 79 # 138 - Friday, July 18, 201479 FR 41881 - Extension of Expiration Date for Temporary Pilot Program Setting the Time and Place for a Hearing Before an Administrative Law Judge
2014-05-01; vol. 79 # 84 - Thursday, May 1, 201479 FR 24634 - Revised Medical Criteria for Evaluating Neurological Disorders; Reopening of the Comment Period
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2014-09951 RIN0960-AF35 Docket No.SSA-2006-0140 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Proposed rule; reopening of the comment period. The comment period for the notice of proposed rulemaking published on February 25, 2014 (79 FR 10636), is reopened. To ensure that your written comments are considered, we must receive them no later than June 2, 2014. 20 CFR Part 404 SummaryOn February 25, 2014, we published in the Federal Register a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) regarding Revised Medical Criteria for Evaluating Neurological Disorders and solicited public comments. We provided a 60-day comment period ending on April 28, 2014. We are reopening the comment period for 30 days.
2014-04-28; vol. 79 # 81 - Monday, April 28, 201479 FR 23303 - Revised Medical Criteria for Evaluating Neurological Disorders
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2014-09480 RIN0960-AF35 Docket No.SSA-2006-0140 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Proposed rule; notice of teleconference. 20 CFR Part 404 SummaryWe propose to revise the criteria in the Listing of Impairments (listings) that we use to evaluate disability claims involving neurological disorders in adults and children under titles II and XVI of the Social Security Act (Act). The proposed revisions reflect our program experience; advances in medical knowledge, treatment, and methods of evaluating neurological disorders; comments we received from medical experts and the public at an outreach policy conference; and responses to an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM). On Monday, May 12, 2014 at 1:00 p.m., EDT, we will conduct an informational teleconference on certain proposed changes to the medical criteria for evaluating neurological disorders in the Listing of Impairments (listings). The teleconference is open to the public and will be strictly informational. Date and Time: The teleconference will take place on Monday, May 12, 2014 at 1:00 p.m., EDT. Teleconference: To join us by teleconference, dial phone number 1-800-930-7709 and use passcode number 112683.
2014-03-25; vol. 79 # 57 - Tuesday, March 25, 201479 FR 16250 - Revised Medical Criteria for Evaluating Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection and for Evaluating Functional Limitations in Immune System Disorders; Correction and Extension of Comment Period
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2014-06524 RIN0960-AG71 Docket No.SSA-2007-0082 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION, 20 CFR Part 404 Proposed rule; correction and extension of comment period. The comment period for the proposed rule, published February 26, 2014 (79 FR 10730), is extended. To ensure that your comments are considered, we must receive them by no later than May 27, 2014. SummaryThis document corrects and extends the deadline for submitting comments on the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, February 26, 2014, regarding Revised Medical Criteria for Evaluating Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection and for Evaluating Functional Limitations in Immune System Disorders.
2014-03-03; vol. 79 # 41 - Monday, March 3, 201479 FR 11706 - Medicare Determinations and Income-Related Monthly Adjustment Amounts to Medicare Part B Premiums; Conforming Changes to Regulations
typeregulations.gov FR Doc.2014-04610 RIN0960-AH47 Docket No.SSA-2012-0011 SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION Final rule. The interim final rule with request for comments published on September 18, 2013, at 78 FR 57257, is confirmed as final, effective March 3, 2014. 20 CFR Parts 404 and 418 SummaryThis final rule adopts, without change, the interim final rule with request for comments we published in the Federal Register on September 18, 2013. The interim final rule modified our rules regarding Medicare Part B income-related monthly adjustment amounts to conform to changes made to the Social Security Act (Act) and Internal Revenue Code by the Affordable Care Act. We also removed provisions that phased in income-related monthly adjustment amounts between 2007 and 2009 and updated a citation to reflect the transfer of authority for hearing appeals under title XVIII of the Act from the Social Security Administration to the Department of Health and Human Services.
20 CFR 404.101 — Introduction.