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No preferred setting is inferred as actual execution."},"public_id":"R075/pass-01","facets":{"geography":["us","us-federal"],"debt_type":[],"stage":[],"subject":["liability-signers","employment-care-benefits"]},"scope":"First independent TitleII representative-payee capability selection notice-review public framework;20CFR4042001-2025 with narrow405j clauses","pending_corrections":0},"markdown":"# SettleADebt R075 PASS-01\n\n## Federal Title II representative-payee coverage, capability, selection, designation, and notice/review\n\n**Actual public-source check date: October 27, 2026, America/Los_Angeles.** The research clock recorded October 28, 2026 UTC, during October 27 in Los Angeles. This investigation used public legal and agency-instruction texts independently of the earlier reports.\n\n**The selected framework makes several distinct decisions:** whether benefits should be paid directly or through a representative payee; whether a proposed payee satisfies statutory restrictions and serves the beneficiary’s interests; whether an advance designee can be selected; and what notice and review apply. A court-appointed guardian, an advance designee, an agent, and an SSA-appointed representative payee are not interchangeable categories. The selected provisions do not establish anyone’s actual capability, entitlement, appointment, authority over other assets, or authority to settle debts. **Claims C005–C010, C030–C037, C065–C072 below supply the precise authority and limits.**\n\n**Material current-text differences remain visible in this report.** Among them, the statute requires the preferred certified nonprofit category to meet bonding **and** available State-licensing requirements, whereas §404.2021(b)(1) still uses “licensed … or bonded.” The statute also contains a fleeing-prosecution/custody disqualification absent from §404.2022’s enumerated list. These are reasons to read the statute and regulation together, not to treat the regulatory list as exhaustive. **C041–C042, C049, C088; S001–S002, S016.** [uscode.house.gov+1](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s405/?utm_source=chatgpt.com)\n\n### Register conventions\n\n- Every **S**, **C**, **M**, **B**, and **Q** identifier below belongs to **R075-P1**. Thus “C010” means **R075-P1-C010**.\n- “Read completely” means the identified section or clause was read completely, including its material adjacent qualifications. It does **not** mean the entire containing title, statute, regulation, manual, or Federal Register issue was read.\n- All PDF review was of **parsed text**. No claim is made that PDF pixels, signatures, forms, or scanned page images were visually examined.\n- “Held” identifies a scope or evidence boundary. It does not mean the law is absent, the question has no answer, or an actual person fails a requirement.\n\n# 1. Source register and exact read boundaries\n\nAll source-register entries below were checked on **October 27, 2026, America/Los_Angeles**, and concern **United States federal law or federal agency instructions**. HTML sources have no PDF index unless a separately identified PDF was examined.\n\n## 1.1 Current statutory and regulatory bodies\n\n| Source ID | Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL | Displayed version and legal status | Exact read extent, effectiveness, and limits |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **R075-P1-S001** | Office of the Law Revision Counsel, **42 USC §405, Evidence, procedure, and certification for payments**. [https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s405/](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s405/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Displayed compilation through **Public Law 119-134, October 20, 2026**. Statutory codification, with separate editorial, amendment, and effective-date notes. | Complete substantive review of **§405(j)(1); (2)(A)–(E), all nested clauses; (3)(A)–(F); (8), (9), (10), and (11)**. Also read **§405(a), (b)(1), and (g)**. Sections (j)(3)(G)–(H) were read only to identify administrative-file/list boundaries. Other downstream passages were exposed during retrieval but were not adopted as a complete administration/remedies dossier. Selected 1996, 2004, 2018, and 2026 notes checked against the enacted instruments listed below. **No whole-§405 or whole-§405(j) certification.** [uscode.house.gov+2](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s405/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S002** | Office of the Federal Register/GPO, SSA regulations, **20 CFR Part 404, Subpart U—Representative Payment**. [https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Refreshed display: **Title 20 up to date October 26, 2026; title last amended October 19, 2026**. eCFR describes itself as authoritative but unofficial, not the official legal print edition. | **Every section actually present from §§404.2001 through 404.2025 read completely**, including examples and source notes. Narrow additions read completely: **§§404.2026, 404.2030, and 404.2055**. Other downstream sections appearing in retrieval were not adopted as completed topics. The title-wide amendment date does not establish that each selected section changed that day. [ecfr.gov+3](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S003** | GPO, **2025 official annual CFR, Title 20, volume 2**. [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2025-title20-vol2-sec404-2001.pdf](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2025-title20-vol2-sec404-2001.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2025-title20-vol2-sec404-2022.pdf](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2025-title20-vol2-sec404-2022.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2025-title20-vol2-sec404-2024.pdf](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2025-title20-vol2-sec404-2024.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | **April 1, 2025 edition**; official annual legal publication, historical relative to the access date. | Complete §404.2001: printed **706**, PDF index **0**. Complete §404.2022: printed **710–711**, indices **0–1**. Complete §404.2024: printed **711–712**, indices **0–1**; adjacent §§404.2025–2026 also visible. Overlapping pages and section PDFs are formats of the same edition, not independent corroboration. The annual edition does not prove the 2026 chain. [govinfo.gov+2](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2025-title20-vol2-sec404-2001.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S004** | OFR/GPO, SSA, **20 CFR Part 404, Subpart J—Determinations, Administrative Review Process, and Reopening**. [https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-J](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-J?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Current eCFR display through **October 26, 2026**, title last amended **October 19, 2026**; authoritative unofficial compilation. | Complete **§§404.900, .901, .904, .905, .907, .908, .909, .911, and .913**; §404.902 introductory language and **(o), (p), (q)**; §404.903 introductory language and **(c)**. Other clauses appeared incidentally but were not used to complete unrelated proceedings. Full ALJ, Appeals Council, judicial-filing, reopening, evidence, and representation regimes remain held. [ecfr.gov+2](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-J?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S005** | OLRC, **42 USC §402, Old-age and survivors insurance benefit payments**. [https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s402/](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s402/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Page displayed compilation through **Public Law 119-120, October 7, 2026**, notwithstanding the URL’s release segment. A newer attempted endpoint failed. | Complete **§402(x)(1)(A)–(B)** read to preserve the context of **(A)(iv)**, incorporated by §405(j)(2). Only the incorporated fleeing category is used here. Benefit nonpayment, good-cause exceptions, confinement, and other §402 eligibility rules are not transposed to payee selection. [uscode.house.gov](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s402/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S006** | OLRC, **42 USC §423, Disability insurance benefit payments**. [https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s423/](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s423/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Displayed compilation through **Public Law 119-120, October 7, 2026**; newer attempted endpoint failed. | **§423(d)(1)–(6) read completely**, solely to identify the incorporated disability definition used in specified parent-related exceptions and the boundary between disability entitlement and capability. Nested disability-evaluation regimes were not investigated; no disability test or determination is supplied here. [uscode.house.gov+1](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s423/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S014** | OFR/GPO, SSA, **20 CFR Part 402**, particularly current **§402.160(b)(1)** concerning Social Security Rulings. [https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-402](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-402?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Current eCFR; Part 402 source line cites **89 FR 102711, December 18, 2024**. | Complete material **§402.160(b)** read, with adjacent publication context, only to establish the stated agency status of SSRs. The historical reorganization instrument was not independently authenticated. An attempted older locator, §402.35, now addresses a different subject. No FOIA procedure, request, or records access was pursued. [ecfr.gov+1](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-402?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S027** | OLRC, **Currency and Updating** and **119th Congress, second-session Classification Table**. [https://uscode.house.gov/currency.html](https://uscode.house.gov/currency.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com); [https://uscode.house.gov/classification/tbl119cd_2nd.html](https://uscode.house.gov/classification/tbl119cd_2nd.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Currency page: **Public Law 119-134, October 20, 2026**. Classification table prepared **October 20, 2026**. Editorial finding aids, not enacted law. | Currency page and selected §405 classification entries read. The 2026 §405 entry led to the enacted S026 instrument. These pages do not certify the absence of later enactments, delayed effective provisions, or judicial developments. [US Code+1](https://uscode.house.gov/currency.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n\n## 1.2 Official generic instructions and ruling\n\n| Source ID | Issuer, title, complete literal HTTPS URL | Displayed instruction version/status | Exact read extent and limits |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **R075-P1-S007** | SSA POMS, **GN 00502.001—Capability Determination and Representative Payee Payment Overview**. [https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502001](https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502001?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | **TN 56 (07-20); revision January 26, 2017; batch October 16, 2026**. Agency operating instructions, not enacted statutory or regulatory text. | Complete **A–D** read. Presumption, evidence, participation, and direct-payment instructions used within their stated context. A batch date is not a new effective date. [01/26/2017](https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502001?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S008** | SSA POMS, **GN 00502.020—Determining Capability—Adult Beneficiaries**. [https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502020](https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502020?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | **TN 78 (03-23); revision June 10, 2022; batch June 8, 2026**. Agency instructions. | Complete **A–C** read. Used for management versus directing management, evidence, and the prohibition on treating diagnosis alone as incapability. No medical or functional assessment performed. [06/10/2022](https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502020?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S009** | SSA POMS, **GN 00502.139—Additional Development/Considerations When Guardian Involved**. [https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502139](https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502139?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | **TN 84 (05-23); revision April 15, 2016; batch July 17, 2026**. Agency instructions. | Complete **A–C**, including guardian, statutory guardian, custody, voluntary conservator, and power-of-attorney discussions. State-law digests and Treasury-payment cross-references not read. The instructions are not a complete statement of State guardianship or agency law. [04/15/2016](https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502139?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S010** | SSA POMS, **GN 00503.100—Advance Notice**. [https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503100](https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503100?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | **TN 14 (03-25); revision August 14, 2023; batch September 8, 2026**. Agency instructions. | Complete **A–F**, including recipient exceptions, agency processing, and the published example, read. No referenced notice form was filled or created. Foreign-residence and minor-recipient instructions are identified as additional instruction-level qualifications, not silently substituted for statutory text. [08/14/2023](https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503100?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S011** | SSA POMS, **GN 00503.110—Appeal Rights**. [https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503110](https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503110?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | **TN 10 (08-23); revision December 30, 2021; batch June 8, 2026**. Agency instructions. | Complete **A–C** read. Includes both appealable categories and listed non-initial determinations; no assumption that every payee-related disagreement follows the same route. [12/30/2021](https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503110?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S012** | SSA POMS, **GN 00503.120—Response Received to Advance Notice**. [https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503120](https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503120?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | **TN 14 (03-25); revision August 14, 2023; batch September 8, 2026**. Agency instructions. | Complete **A–F** read. Formal reconsideration versus informal protest, pre-effectuation review, revised selections, and limited file-review instructions examined. Internal systems and forms were neither accessed nor used. [08/14/2023](https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503120?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S013** | SSA, **SSR 91-5p—Titles II and XVI: Mental Incapacity and Good Cause for Missing the Deadline to Request Review**. [https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/oasi/33/SSR91-05-oasi-33.html](https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/oasi/33/SSR91-05-oasi-33.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Published policy-interpretation ruling; stated **effective/publication date July 1, 1991**. Current public SSA page examined; no exhaustive rescission or judicial-history audit claimed. | Complete ruling body, including conditions, adjudicator duties, result limits, effective statement, and the separate circuit-specific cross-reference, read. The cross-referenced acquiescence ruling and judicial authorities were not investigated. Older reopening-period discussion is not adopted as a complete current reopening regime. [ssa.gov+1](https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/oasi/33/SSR91-05-oasi-33.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n\n## 1.3 Enacted and regulatory history instruments\n\n| Source ID | Issuer/title and complete literal HTTPS URL | Publication/enactment and status | Actual read bounds; effective/application provisions |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **R075-P1-S015** | Congress/GPO, **Public Law 115-165, Strengthening Protections for Social Security Beneficiaries Act of 2018**. [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ165/html/PLAW-115publ165.htm](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ165/html/PLAW-115publ165.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Enacted **April 13, 2018**; enacted amendatory text. | Complete selected **§102(a), (d); §201(a)–(d); §202(a), (d)–(f); §203(a), (d)**. Printed **132 Stat. 1260–1261, 1266–1268, 1271–1273**; HTML, PDF index N/A. Other Title VIII/XVI amendments and broader oversight provisions not adopted. Detailed application triggers appear in C096–C100 and the measurement register. [govinfo.gov+3](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ165/html/PLAW-115publ165.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S016** | Congress/GPO, **Public Law 108-203, Social Security Protection Act of 2004**. [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-108publ203/html/PLAW-108publ203.htm](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-108publ203/html/PLAW-108publ203.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Enacted **March 2, 2004**. | Selected complete **§102(a)(1), (a)(3); §103(a), (d); §105(a), (d)**; §106(a) read for the reporting-notice context. Printed **118 Stat. 497–498, 500–505**; HTML, index N/A. Authenticates bonding/licensing change, imprisonment/fleeing screening, and redesignation to current §405(j)(10). Full liability, fees, and overpayment regimes held. [govinfo.gov+3](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-108publ203/html/PLAW-108publ203.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S017** | Congress/GPO, **Public Law 104-121, Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996**. [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-104publ121/html/PLAW-104publ121.htm](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-104publ121/html/PLAW-104publ121.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Enacted **March 29, 1996**. | Complete selected **§105(a)(2)(A)–(D)** and **§105(a)(5)(A)–(C)**, printed **110 Stat. 852–853**; HTML, index N/A. Used only for revised disability/DAA payee predicates and their application provision. No separate disability-entitlement transition report. [govinfo.gov](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-104publ121/html/PLAW-104publ121.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S018** | HHS/SSA, **Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind and Disabled; Representative Payment**, final rule. [https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1982/7/14/30466-30477.pdf](https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1982/7/14/30466-30477.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Published and stated effective **July 14, 1982**. Historical adoption instrument. | Header/dates at printed **30468**, PDF index **2**; complete selected original §§404.2001, .2010, .2015, .2020, .2021, .2025 at printed **30472–30473**, indices **6–7**. Not the whole issue slice or preamble. Original four-month language is historical. A correction cited by the current regulation was not successfully authenticated; see S028. [archives.federalregister.gov+1](https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1982/7/14/30466-30477.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S019** | HHS/SSA, **Treatment of Old-Age Survivors, and Disability Insurance Payments in the Aid to Families With Dependent Children Program; Direct Payment to Beneficiaries Under Age 18**, final rule. [https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1989/8/28/35482-35490.pdf](https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1989/8/28/35482-35490.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Published and effective **August 28, 1989**. | Header, relevant explanation, and complete amendment changing §404.2010(b)(6) from four to seven months; printed **35482–35483**, indices **0–1**. AFDC and fund-use amendments not adopted as findings. [archives.federalregister.gov+1](https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1989/8/28/35482-35490.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S020** | SSA, **Representative Payment Under Titles II, VIII, and XVI of the Social Security Act**, final rules. [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2004-10-07/pdf/04-22331.pdf](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2004-10-07/pdf/04-22331.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Published **October 7, 2004**; effective **November 8, 2004**. | Header/dates; selected substantial-harm preamble; complete selected Title II amendatory instructions **2–9**, printed **60232–60234**, PDF indices **8–10**, within a 17-page document printed 60224–60240. Whole preamble and other-title amendments not claimed read. [govinfo.gov+3](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2004-10-07/pdf/04-22331.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S021** | SSA/OFR, **Representative Payment Policies and Administrative Procedure for Imposing Penalties for False or Misleading Statements or Withholding of Information**. [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2006/10/18/E6-17320/representative-payment-policies-and-administrative-procedure-for-imposing-penalties-for-false-or](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2006/10/18/E6-17320/representative-payment-policies-and-administrative-procedure-for-imposing-penalties-for-false-or?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Published **October 18, 2006**, **71 FR 61403**; displayed effective **November 17, 2006**. Government-hosted XML rendition expressly says it is **not** the official legal edition. | Complete selected amendatory instruction **4**, printed locator **61407**, adding the imprisonment restriction and relettering §404.2022, read in XML. Official PDF/HTML attempts failed. Thus the original-publication authentication remains partial; current regulatory wording is independently readable in S002/S003, which are versions of the regulation, not corroborating originals of this rule. [federalregister.gov+1](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2006/10/18/E6-17320/representative-payment-policies-and-administrative-procedure-for-imposing-penalties-for-false-or?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S022** | SSA/OFR, **Representative Payment Under Titles II, VIII and XVI of the Social Security Act**. [https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/11/10/E8-26680/representative-payment-under-titles-ii-viii-and-xvi-of-the-social-security-act](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/11/10/E8-26680/representative-payment-under-titles-ii-viii-and-xvi-of-the-social-security-act?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Published **November 10, 2008**, **73 FR 66520**; displayed effective **December 10, 2008**. Unofficial XML rendition of a final rule. | Complete selected Title II amendatory instruction **2**, §404.2024(a)(1), (b), (c), and material explanation; printed locator **66521**. Official PDF/HTML attempts failed; no PDF index is claimed. [federalregister.gov+1](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/11/10/E8-26680/representative-payment-under-titles-ii-viii-and-xvi-of-the-social-security-act?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S023** | SSA, **Prohibiting Persons With Certain Criminal Convictions From Serving as Representative Payees**, final rule. [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-02-15/pdf/2019-02483.pdf](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-02-15/pdf/2019-02483.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Published **February 15, 2019**; effective **March 18, 2019**. | Header/dates and complete Title II amendatory instructions **1–5**, principally printed **4325**, PDF index **2**; document printed **4323–4326**, indices **0–3**. Other-title amendments and complete preamble not claimed read. [govinfo.gov+1](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-02-15/pdf/2019-02483.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S024** | SSA, same subject, **correcting amendment**. [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-10-25/pdf/2019-23235.pdf](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-10-25/pdf/2019-23235.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Published/effective **October 25, 2019**; stated applicable beginning **March 18, 2019**. | Complete material explanation and Title II instructions **1–3**, printed **57319–57320**, indices **0–1**. Corrects the individual-versus-organization scope of §§404.2024(a)(10) and .2026. [govinfo.gov](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-10-25/pdf/2019-23235.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S025** | SSA, **Advance Designation of Representative Payees**, final rule. [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-02-11/pdf/2020-02409.pdf](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-02-11/pdf/2020-02409.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Published **February 11, 2020**; effective **February 25, 2020**. | Header/dates, material effective-date explanation, complete Title II instructions **1–4**, printed **7664–7665**, indices **3–4**, within document printed **7661–7665**. Not the entire preamble or parallel Title VIII/XVI regime. [govinfo.gov+1](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-02-11/pdf/2020-02409.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S026** | Congress/GPO, **Public Law 119-77, Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act**. [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ77/html/PLAW-119publ77.htm](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ77/html/PLAW-119publ77.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com) | Enacted **February 10, 2026**; §2(c) makes amendments effective **December 27, 2026**, future relative to this check. | Complete enacted §§1–2 read, printed **140 Stat. 745–746**, HTML index N/A. It amends **§405(r)**, not the selected representative-payee clauses in **§405(j)**. Used only to distinguish a displayed 2026 amendment from an operative amendment to this component. [govinfo.gov](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ77/html/PLAW-119publ77.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-S028** | OFR, attempted **47 FR 32936, July 30, 1982 correction**. [https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/47-FR-32936](https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/47-FR-32936) | Citation appears in current §404.2021’s source history; original body not obtained. | **Failed access; no substantive proposition rests on the correction’s presumed contents.** The 1982 original’s printed/OCR wording and current “authorized social agency” wording differ; the current text is established by S002/S003, but this correction link in the history remains unverified. |\n\n### What was not completed within §405(j)\n\nThe completed substantive statutory read is expressly limited to the clauses identified in S001. The following are **not completed downstream dossiers**:\n\n- **§405(j)(3)(G)–(H):** administrative centralized-file and local-list provisions were read only to identify their existence and scope. No list or roster was accessed.\n- **§405(j)(4), (5), and (7):** portions or bodies appeared in retrieval and were screened for boundaries; fees, reissuance, restitution, negligence, and overpayment consequences were not investigated through all necessary cross-references.\n- **§405(j)(6) and (12):** not read through as complete operative monitoring/grant/reporting regimes.\n- **§405(j)(11):** its complete text was read, but its foster-care definitions and incorporated Title IV provisions were not traced. It is a pointer to a distinct reassessment setting, not a completed foster-care analysis.\n- Criminal-offense elements under **42 USC §§408, 1011, 1383a** and the listed **Title 18** provisions were not investigated. No conviction, exoneration, pardon, or fleeing status is classified.\n\n# 2. Inventory of the complete selected regulatory range\n\nThe range contains the following sections; no provision has been invented for an unused number. **C002; S002.**\n\n| Section actually present | Current heading | Read extent |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **404.2001** | Introduction | Complete (a), (b)(1)–(3) |\n| **404.2010** | When payment will be made to a representative payee | Complete (a), (b)(1)–(6) |\n| **404.2011** | What happens to your monthly benefits while we are finding a suitable representative payee for you? | Complete (a)–(c), both examples, source note |\n| **404.2015** | Information considered in determining whether to make representative payments | Complete (a)–(c), including medical-evidence example |\n| **404.2018** | Advance designation of representative payees | Complete (a)–(f) |\n| **404.2020** | Information considered in selecting a representative payee | Complete introductory language and (a)–(g) |\n| **404.2021** | What is our order of preference in selecting a representative payee for you? | Complete introduction and all three category lists |\n| **404.2022** | Who may not serve as a representative payee? | Complete (a)–(f), nested exceptions, both creditor examples |\n| **404.2024** | How do we investigate a representative payee applicant? | Complete (a)(1)–(10), (b), (c) |\n| **404.2025** | What information must a representative payee report to us? | Complete section and source note |\n\nThe notice and later direct-payment questions required the narrow additions **§404.2030** and **§404.2055**. The recurring-screening reference required **§404.2026**. These additions do not convert the pass into a full Subpart U administration report. [ecfr.gov+3](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com)\n\n# 3. Atomic claim register and substantive findings\n\nThe claim tables are the substantive findings. Each rule remains conditional on its stated predicates; no actual predicate is supplied or determined.\n\n## 3.1 Publication status, program boundary, and capability\n\n| Claim ID | Supported atomic finding | Exact authority and scope |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **R075-P1-C001** | The access date is October 27, 2026 Los Angeles time. The most recent successful main statutory display was through October 20, and the refreshed main eCFR display through October 26. These are different kinds of dates. | Research clock; **S001, S002, S027**. Neither date is an exhaustive later-law certification. |\n| **R075-P1-C002** | The selected regulatory range contains the ten sections listed in §2 above. Each was read completely. | **S002**, §§404.2001–404.2025 as actually organized. |\n| **R075-P1-C003** | The main statutory read is clause-specific, not a whole-§405(j) investigation. The §402 and §423 alternatives have an earlier displayed cutoff than S001. | **S001, S005, S006** and the express read-bound statement above. |\n| **R075-P1-C004** | Enacted statutory text, regulations, editorial notes, POMS instructions, SSRs, and historical amendatory instruments have different legal functions. An eCFR display is an unofficial publication of regulatory text; a POMS batch date does not amend the statute or regulation. | **S001–S002, S007–S014, S021–S022**; publication/status statements on the sources. |\n| **R075-P1-C005** | Part 404 is the Title II old-age, survivors, and disability insurance framework. References to Title VIII or XVI in screening, prior misuse, designation, or own-payee restrictions do not import the full SSI or other program regime. | **S002**, Part 404/Subpart U; **S001**, §405(j)(1)(C), (2)(B)–(C). |\n| **R075-P1-C006** | A representative payee under the selected regulation is a person or organization **selected by SSA** to receive benefits on the beneficiary’s behalf. The term does not establish a separate person’s benefit eligibility or a general power over assets. | **S002**, §404.2001(a); **S001**, §405(j)(1)(A). [uscode.house.gov](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s405/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-C007** | The Commissioner may certify direct or representative payment when the individual’s interests would be served, regardless of legal competency or incompetency, subject to the statutory payee requirements. | **S001**, §405(j)(1)(A), first sentence, incorporating (2). This does not mean legal status is irrelevant to the regulations’ specific rules. |\n| **R075-P1-C008** | SSA’s regulatory policy recognizes each beneficiary’s right to manage their benefits. Representative payment generally concerns inability to **manage or direct management** of benefit payments in the beneficiary’s interest. | **S002**, §404.2001(a), (b)(1)–(2). Youth or a physical/mental condition is a possible basis for inquiry, not an automatic conclusion. |\n| **R075-P1-C009** | For an adult beneficiary, §404.2010 requires the interest determination plus information of legal incompetence or mental inability to manage, or physical inability to manage or direct management. | **S002**, §404.2010(a)(1)–(2). No diagnosis, debt, disability label, or old-age label independently supplies these findings. |\n| **R075-P1-C010** | If direct payment is already being made, capability is questioned, the beneficiary is at least 18, and the beneficiary has not been adjudged legally incompetent, SSA continues direct payment until it determines capability and selects a payee. | **S002**, §404.2001(b)(3). This is distinct from the later substantial-harm analysis while locating a suitable payee. [ecfr.gov](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-C011** | Under 18, representative payment is the general rule, but direct payment is possible where ability to manage is shown. The listed circumstances are examples, not an exhaustive entitlement list. | **S002**, §404.2010(b), introductory language. The ability condition applies to C012–C017. |\n| **R075-P1-C012** | One minor direct-payment example is receipt of disability insurance benefits on the beneficiary’s own earnings record, with the introductory ability requirement. | **S002**, §404.2010(b)(1). |\n| **R075-P1-C013** | Another example is military service, with the same ability requirement. | **S002**, §404.2010(b)(2). No military status is supplied. |\n| **R075-P1-C014** | Another example requires living alone **and** self-support, with ability to manage shown. | **S002**, §404.2010(b)(3). |\n| **R075-P1-C015** | The parent example requires a parent filing for self and/or child **and** experience handling the parent’s finances, with ability shown. | **S002**, §404.2010(b)(4). Parenthood alone is insufficient. |\n| **R075-P1-C016** | Another example requires ability to use benefits for current needs **and** absence of an available qualified payee. | **S002**, §404.2010(b)(5). |\n| **R075-P1-C017** | Another example concerns a beneficiary within seven months of attaining 18 **and initially applying** for benefits, subject to the introductory ability requirement. | **S002**, §404.2010(b)(6); historical change authenticated in **S019**. No birthday calculation follows. |\n| **R075-P1-C018** | When SSA learns of a legal-incompetence finding, a certified court determination forms the basis of its representative-payment determination. This is not SSA itself issuing a general court adjudication of incompetence. | **S002**, §404.2015(a). |\n| **R075-P1-C019** | Medical evidence is used **when available**. The regulatory example involves a recent examination, present condition, nature of illness, recovery prospects, and an opinion about managing or directing management. | **S002**, §404.2015(b), complete example. It supplies no mandatory diagnosis, numerical score, or universal examination interval. |\n| **R075-P1-C020** | SSA also considers helpful statements from relatives, friends, and others positioned to know and observe the beneficiary. | **S002**, §404.2015(c). This is an evidence category, not authority to solicit actual records in this pass. |\n| **R075-P1-C021** | POMS instructs staff to presume a legally competent adult capable absent indicators requiring development; capability decisions require supporting evidence and reasoning, and payee appointment is not for convenience. | **S007**, GN 00502.001, complete relevant policy/procedure. Instruction-level clarification, not a substitute for §§404.2001–.2015. |\n| **R075-P1-C022** | POMS expressly distinguishes diagnosis from capability and recognizes that a beneficiary able to direct others’ management can be capable even if unable to perform every management task personally. | **S008**, GN 00502.020(A)–(C). Medical, lay, and legal evidence remain context-specific; no personal assessment is made. [01/26/2017+1](https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502001?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-C023** | The special statutory DAA provision requires benefits **based on the individual’s disability**, an SSA-determined alcoholism or drug-addiction condition, incapability of managing those benefits, and an interest determination. Disability-based benefits are defined in (j)(8) as specified own-disability insurance, child’s, widow’s, or widower’s benefits. | **S001**, §405(j)(1)(B), (8). A substance-use condition alone is insufficient. [uscode.house.gov+1](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s405/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n\n## 3.2 Interim direct payment and substantial harm\n\n| Claim ID | Supported atomic finding | Exact authority and scope |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **R075-P1-C024** | While finding a suitable payee, current monthly benefits are paid directly unless SSA determines direct payment would cause substantial harm. | **S002**, §404.2011(a), subject to its full qualifications and the §404.2001(b)(3) cross-reference. |\n| **R075-P1-C025** | The regulation creates a **rebuttable** substantial-harm presumption for specified disability-payment/DAA circumstances, legal incompetence, or age under 15. It expressly permits evidence that direct payment would not cause substantial harm. | **S002**, §404.2011(a)(1). This is a particular interim-payment rule, not a general redefinition of legal competence. |\n| **R075-P1-C026** | Outside those categories, substantial harm requires both expected serious physical or mental injury from direct receipt and a finding that the possible injury outweighs the effect of having no income for basic needs. | **S002**, §404.2011(a)(2)(i)–(ii). Unwise spending alone does not satisfy this stated test. |\n| **R075-P1-C027** | Ordinarily, substantial-harm deferral/suspension while finding a payee may last no more than one month. The statutory limit does not apply when, as of SSA’s determination, the beneficiary is legally incompetent, under 15, or described in §405(j)(1)(B). | **S001**, §405(j)(2)(D)(i)–(ii); **S002**, §404.2011(b). The regulation preserves rebuttal and cross-references existing-direct-payment protection. |\n| **R075-P1-C028** | Delayed or suspended benefits can be paid to the beneficiary or payee as a single sum or over a period/in installments when SSA determines that treatment serves the beneficiary’s interests. | **S001**, §405(j)(2)(D)(iii); **S002**, §404.2011(c). No amount, installment schedule, or actual payment right is calculated. |\n| **R075-P1-C029** | The regulation’s examples distinguish expected serious injury from concern that money may be used unwisely. Its retirement-benefit example does not make a substance-use condition a universal exception to the one-month limit. | **S002**, §404.2011, both examples; **S001**, §405(j)(1)(B), (2)(D), (8). Published examples were read without adopting or recreating their parties or facts. [ecfr.gov](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n\n## 3.3 Advance designation and selection preferences\n\n| Claim ID | Supported atomic finding | Exact authority and scope |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **R075-P1-C030** | Statutory advance designation is available to an applicant or entitled individual who has attained 18 or is an emancipated minor. The regulation additionally bars designation when SSA has specified information of legal incompetence, mental incapability, or physical inability to manage/direct benefits. | **S001**, §405(j)(1)(C)(i); **S002**, §404.2018(a). No actual eligibility to designate is established. |\n| **R075-P1-C031** | The regulation identifies required designation information—designee name, telephone number, and priority order if more than one—and makes relationship information optional. Changes and withdrawal require continued qualification under paragraph (a). | **S002**, §404.2018(b)–(c). These are descriptions of legal requirements only; no fields collecting that information are included in the worksheet. |\n| **R075-P1-C032** | After SSA decides representative payment is needed, it considers designees in the specified order and selects the first who is willing and able, satisfies §405(j)(2), and is not displaced for other good cause under §§404.2020–.2021. | **S001**, §405(j)(1)(C)(i)(I)–(II); **S002**, §404.2018(d)(1). Designation does not eliminate investigation or disqualification rules. |\n| **R075-P1-C033** | An organization cannot be advance-designated under these provisions. If no designee qualifies, SSA returns to its preference guide and other Subpart U requirements; an organization may still qualify through ordinary selection. | **S001**, §405(j)(1)(C)(ii); **S002**, §§404.2018(d)(2), (f), .2001(a), .2021. |\n| **R075-P1-C034** | When a later change of payee is needed, SSA considers other designees made when the beneficiary was eligible to designate. | **S002**, §404.2018(e). This does not establish that a current designation exists or remains factually usable. |\n| **R075-P1-C035** | Advance designation identifies a possible future SSA payee; it does not itself establish appointment, present control, guardianship, a power of attorney, records access, or debt-settlement authority. | Bounded reading of **S001**, §405(j)(1)(C), and **S002**, §404.2018. Other sources of authority remain unexamined. [ecfr.gov](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n| **R075-P1-C036** | SSA selects for the beneficiary’s interests, considering relationship, interest shown, existing legal authority, custody, ability to know/look after needs, criminal history, and advance designation. | **S002**, §404.2020(a)–(g). No single label establishes suitability. |\n| **R075-P1-C037** | The regulatory preference categories are flexible guides. Qualified advance designees are considered first, subject to willingness, ability, restrictions, and best interests. | **S002**, §404.2021 introductory language; §404.2018(d). |\n| **R075-P1-C038** | Ordinary adult preferences are: guardian/spouse/relative with custody or strong concern; friend with custody or strong concern; public/nonprofit agency or institution with custody; State-licensed for-profit private institution with custody; then other qualified, able, willing persons. | **S002**, §404.2021(a)(1)–(5), excluding the special paragraph (b) category. The ordering is not an appointment entitlement. |\n| **R075-P1-C039** | Minor preferences distinguish custodial parent/guardian; noncustodial parent contributing and concerned; noncustodial parent not contributing but concerned; custodial relative/stepparent; contributing concerned noncustodial relative; concerned noncustodial relative/close friend; and authorized social agency/custodial institution. | **S002**, §404.2021(c)(1)–(7). Contribution, custody, relationship, and concern are different predicates. |\n| **R075-P1-C040** | For the statutory §405(j)(1)(B) category, preference is for a certified community nonprofit, specified government mission agency, State/local fiduciary agency, or appropriate nonfederal designee, **unless SSA determines a family member would be appropriate**. | **S001**, §405(j)(2)(C)(v). The regulation’s paragraph (b) lists a family member after its agency categories; neither text makes a category alone sufficient. |\n| **R075-P1-C041** | A statutory certified community-based nonprofit must satisfy annual certification requirements for bonding **and** licensing in each State where it serves if licensing is available; the certification includes any independent audit performed since the previous certification. | **S001**, §405(j)(10), incorporated by (2)(C)(v). The clause does not require inventing an audit that was never performed. |\n| **R075-P1-C042** | The current regulation’s preferred nonprofit phrase, “licensed by the State, or bonded,” does not reproduce the statute’s bonding-and-available-licensing requirement. The 2004 enacted change was authenticated. | **S002**, §404.2021(b)(1); **S001**, §405(j)(10); **S016**, §102(a)(1), (3), §105(a). No silent harmonization or actual organizational qualification is made. [ecfr.gov+2](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n\n## 3.4 Restrictions, disqualifications, and exceptions\n\n| Claim ID | Supported atomic finding | Exact authority and scope |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **R075-P1-C043** | A conviction under the identified Social Security criminal provisions is a disqualification; the selected clauses state no exception to that particular bar. | **S001**, §405(j)(2)(B)(i)(III), (C)(i)(I); **S002**, §404.2022(a): Act §§208, 811, 1632 / 42 USC §§408, 1011, 1383a. Offense elements and actual convictions are held. |\n| **R075-P1-C044** | Another offense resulting in imprisonment for **more than one year** is restricted. The statute permits SSA to determine certification appropriate notwithstanding the conviction; the regulation requires that the conviction’s nature pose no risk and that the exception serve the beneficiary’s best interests. | **S001**, §405(j)(2)(B)(i)(IV), (C)(i)(IV); **S002**, §404.2022(b). Exactly one year does not satisfy this particular “more than” threshold, though another bar may apply. |\n| **R075-P1-C045** | A person whose own Title II, VIII, or XVI benefits are paid through a payee is restricted. The statute expressly specifies overlap with the period in which that person would serve as another’s payee. | **S001**, §405(j)(2)(C)(i)(VII); **S002**, §404.2022(c). This is not a lifetime bar based on any historical use of a payee. |\n| **R075-P1-C046** | Prior misuse is restricted. The regulatory exception requires all of: direct payment not in the beneficiary’s best interests; no suitable alternative; appointment in best interests; present suitability; and repayment or a repayment plan. Performance must be evaluated at least every three months until SSA is satisfied there is no risk to the beneficiary’s best interests. | **S002**, §404.2022(d)(1)–(5); **S001**, §405(j)(2)(C)(i)(II), (ii). A plan is not a finding that repayment occurred. |\n| **R075-P1-C047** | A creditor is one providing goods or services for consideration. Regulatory exceptions require **no risk and no substantial financial conflict**, plus a listed category: same-household relative; guardian/legal representative; licensed/certified care facility; qualified fee-authorized organization; facility administrator/owner/employee where the beneficiary lives and no alternative can be located; or another individual supported by a written determination. | **S002**, §404.2022(e)(1)–(6), both examples. The fee-authorized category retains its unexamined §404.2040a predicate; no fee entitlement is inferred. |\n| **R075-P1-C048** | The statute additionally states good-faith alternative-payee efforts in its facility/person clause. Its residual individual-creditor exception requires no risk, no substantial conflict, and **no other more suitable payee**. | **S001**, §405(j)(2)(C)(iii)(IV)–(V), (iv). The exact reach of the facility wording beyond its clause is not judicially resolved here. |\n| **R075-P1-C049** | The statute bars the category incorporated from §402(x)(1)(A)(iv): fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody/confinement after conviction, for the specified felony/attempt category; where the jurisdiction does not define felony, the clause uses punishment by death or imprisonment exceeding one year, regardless of actual sentence. | **S001**, §405(j)(2)(B)(i)(V), (C)(i)(V); **S005**, §402(x)(1)(A)(iv), complete adjacent (A)–(B) read. The regulation’s list omits this express statutory category. A warrant, accusation, probation issue, or label alone is not classified here. |\n| **R075-P1-C050** | The listed-felony restriction covers conviction, **not subsequently exonerated**, under Federal or State law for the listed categories, including attempt or conspiracy: trafficking; false imprisonment; kidnapping; rape/sexual assault; first-degree homicide; robbery; government-assistance fraud; fraud by scheme; government-fund/property theft; abuse/neglect; forgery; identity theft/fraud. | **S001**, §405(j)(2)(B)(i)(VII), (iv), (C)(i)(VI); **S002**, §404.2022(f). The statute authorizes additional felony categories by regulation. The selected regulation does not repeat the exoneration phrase. |\n| **R075-P1-C051** | Listed exceptions concern custodial parent of a minor; custodial spouse; custodial parent of a beneficiary whose incorporated disability began before 22; custodial court-appointed guardian; custodial grandparent of a minor; parent previously payee for a minor now 18 and continuing eligible; or a presidential/gubernatorial pardon. The statute removes the specified listed-felony inquiry and allows a best-interest exemption. The regulation says conviction alone does not bar these categories, while retaining criminal-history and other-disqualification review. | **S001**, §405(j)(2)(C)(vi)(I)–(II); **S002**, §404.2022(f)(1)–(3); **S006**, §423(d). None is automatic appointment or exemption from every screening rule. |\n| **R075-P1-C052** | The listed Title 18 references identify offense categories; this pass does not determine offense elements, equivalence of a particular State offense, exoneration, pardon effect beyond the stated exception, or constitutional/judicial treatment. | **S001**, §405(j)(2)(B)(iv)(I)–(XII). Next inquiry would be a separately scoped public-law examination of the precise incorporated category, not a record search. [uscode.house.gov+1](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s405/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n\n## 3.5 Investigation, continued suitability, and later direct payment\n\n| Claim ID | Supported atomic finding | Exact authority and scope |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **R075-P1-C053** | Before certification to a payee, SSA must investigate, include a face-to-face interview to the extent practicable, and have adequate evidence that certification serves the beneficiary’s interests. | **S001**, §405(j)(2)(A)(i)–(ii). These are SSA duties, not findings that an investigation occurred. |\n| **R075-P1-C054** | The regulation’s investigation includes interview; documented identity with the stated recent-benefit-application exception; SSN/EIN verification; specified Social Security convictions; prior misuse revocation; agency-record checks of employment/direct benefits; verification of concern; relationship/care information; creditor status; and an individual applicant’s criminal background check. | **S002**, §404.2024(a)(1)–(10). No screening, identity entry, or record access occurred in this pass. |\n| **R075-P1-C055** | Statutory investigation also expressly addresses other offenses producing imprisonment over one year, the incorporated fleeing category, prior misuse across the identified titles, and nonexonerated listed felonies. SSA may conduct a background check and may disqualify an applicant refusing permission; it may revoke certification for a serving individual covered by the stated January 1, 2019 provision who refuses permission. | **S001**, §405(j)(2)(B)(i), (v). The statutory authority is not authorization for this researcher to run a check. |\n| **R075-P1-C056** | After a face-to-face interview, another is not required if the applicant remains qualified and currently serves, unless SSA determines another necessary based on performance and reporting compliance. Undue hardship can make an interview impracticable; “great distance” is an example without a mileage threshold. | **S002**, §404.2024(b)–(c). Investigation itself is not thereby waived. |\n| **R075-P1-C057** | The statute requires an agency centralized file, periodically updated, including specified misuse revocations/terminations on or after January 1, 1991 and specified Social Security convictions. | **S001**, §405(j)(2)(B)(ii). This is an internal administrative requirement, not a public roster or permission to search one. |\n| **R075-P1-C058** | The statute’s law-enforcement disclosure clause requires an officer’s written request, identification sufficient to establish the person, and notifications about the incorporated fleeing category, necessity to duties, and location/apprehension duties; it preserves the named tax/confidentiality exceptions. | **S001**, §405(j)(2)(B)(iii), including 26 USC §6103 and 42 USC §1306(c) exceptions. Those privacy regimes are not completed here; no request was made. |\n| **R075-P1-C059** | Current §404.2026 says SSA conducts a criminal background check on an appointed **individual** at least once every five years. The 2018 periodic-review mandate expressly excepts individuals granted the specified statutory exemption. | **S002**, §404.2026; **S015**, §202(f); **S024**. The difference in expressed scope is retained; organizational monitoring is not inferred from this rule. |\n| **R075-P1-C060** | Under §404.2025, SSA may request information about continuing relationship, care responsibility, and benefit use at any time after selection. Failure within a reasonable period may stop payments **to that payee**, unless SSA accepts the reason and subsequently receives the information. SSA then considers direct payment under §404.2011 while seeking a new payee. | **S002**, §404.2025. This is not automatic termination of underlying entitlement or automatic direct-payment restoration. |\n| **R075-P1-C061** | The statutory annual-accountability default has State-institution, specified Federal-institution, and specified family-payee exceptions. Family exceptions distinguish same-household minor parent/guardian, same-household parent of an incorporated disabled beneficiary, and spouse. SSA determines exception eligibility; suspected misuse permits a report at any time despite those exceptions. | **S001**, §405(j)(3)(A)–(E); **S015**, §102(a), (d). This narrow read prevents converting §404.2025 into a universal annual-report claim. |\n| **R075-P1-C062** | For failure to submit a report required under §405(j)(3)(A) or (E), the statute permits an in-person payment-receipt requirement only **after notice to both the payee and the entitled individual**. | **S001**, §405(j)(3)(F). This separate response is not identical to §404.2025’s stated consequence. |\n| **R075-P1-C063** | If SSA or a competent court determines misuse under the specified titles, §405(j)(1)(A) directs prompt revocation of certification to that payee and certification to another payee or direct payment when in the individual’s interest. | **S001**, §405(j)(1)(A), second sentence; misuse definition in (j)(9). Full removal, recovery, restitution, and reissuance consequences remain held. |\n| **R075-P1-C064** | Under §404.2055, SSA makes direct payment when the beneficiary shows mental and physical ability to manage or direct management. Listed supporting evidence includes a physician/medical-officer statement, a certified rights-restoration order where previously adjudged incompetent, or other evidence establishing ability. | **S002**, §404.2055(a)–(c). A request, diagnosis change, or unsupported statement does not itself establish the required showing. |\n| **R075-P1-C065** | Agency instructions recognize that appointment of a guardian/conservator does not necessarily establish legal incompetence, and that SSA need not appoint the guardian as payee. A later-appointed guardian is selected only if the guardian can better serve the beneficiary’s interests. | **S009**, GN 00502.139(A)(1), (B)(1)–(2); **S002**, §§404.2001(b)(2), .2020. State-law effects remain held. |\n| **R075-P1-C066** | A power-of-attorney or other representative label is not itself SSA payee appointment. The POMS requires separate payee application/capability consideration for that role; the selected public texts do not establish authority over other assets or debts. | **S009**, GN 00502.139(A)(6), (B)(5); **S002**, §§404.2001, .2020, .2024. Full Treasury and State agency-law rules are not adopted. |\n| **R075-P1-C067** | The POMS contains an unusual voluntary-conservator route where no incapability finding has been made: beneficiary request, proof of court appointment, and payee application; contrary best-interest evidence requires direct payment or further development. | **S009**, GN 00502.139(A)(5), (B)(4). Its “without further payee development” phrase is **not treated here as a waiver of statutory §405(j)(2) requirements**; the extent of that instruction requires clarification before application. [ecfr.gov+2](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n\n## 3.6 Notice, objections, reconsideration, and review\n\n| Claim ID | Supported atomic finding | Exact authority and scope |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **R075-P1-C068** | Written advance notice precedes certification/actual appointment. Statute and regulation route it to the beneficiary except the stated categories—under 15, unemancipated minor under 18, or legally incompetent—where it goes to the legal guardian or legal representative. | **S001**, §405(j)(2)(E)(ii); **S002**, §404.2030(a). The categories are alternatives; no actual recipient is identified. |\n| **R075-P1-C069** | Notice must use understandable language, identify the selected payee, explain rights to challenge the need for a payee and the particular selection, and explain evidence review and submission of additional evidence. | **S001**, §405(j)(2)(E)(iii); **S002**, §404.2030(a)(1)–(5). This is not a completed notice or proof of service. |\n| **R075-P1-C070** | If advance notice was mailed and a protest or appeal is made within ten days after receipt, SSA delays the action until deciding the protest or appeal. If notice was received and signed at the local field office, the regulation says the decision is effective immediately. | **S002**, §404.2030(b)(1)–(2). This is a conditional action-delay rule, not an unconditional stay of all decisions or a promise of continuing direct payment. |\n| **R075-P1-C071** | Whether benefits will be paid through a representative payee and who will act as payee are listed initial determinations. The introductory rule requires a preponderance of evidence and reasons/facts for conclusions. | **S004**, §404.902 introductory text, (o), (q); “preponderance” in §404.901. No evidentiary weighing occurs here. |\n| **R075-P1-C072** | Denial of an applicant’s request to become a representative payee is listed as **not** an initial determination. The regulation allows agency review but excludes Subpart J review for those administrative actions. | **S004**, §404.903 introductory text, (c). This is distinct from a beneficiary challenging SSA’s choice. It is not a completed constitutional or all-remedies analysis. |\n| **R075-P1-C073** | Initial-determination notice generally is written and mailed to the last known address, explains reasons/effect and reconsideration rights, and is binding unless timely reconsidered or revised. The section has additional disability-notice and death-related qualifications not converted into payee-specific rules. | **S004**, §§404.904–.905. Actual address, mailing, receipt, and decision are absent. |\n| **R075-P1-C074** | A dissatisfied beneficiary may request reconsideration; another person must show in writing that the determination may adversely affect that person’s rights. | **S004**, §404.908(a)–(b), read with §404.903(c). Applicant disappointment alone is not assumed to establish this right. |\n| **R075-P1-C075** | Reconsideration requires a written request within 60 days after receipt of the initial-determination notice, or an extended period. An extension request must be written, explain lateness, and satisfy good cause. The rule identifies permitted filing locations, with a ten-year railroad-service condition for the Railroad Retirement Board alternative. | **S004**, §404.909(a)–(b). This is a legal description, not a filing instruction or calculated deadline. |\n| **R075-P1-C076** | For **Subpart J**, receipt means five days after the date on the notice unless the person shows it was not received within that period. | **S004**, §404.901. This limited definition is not silently transposed into every notice under every SSA program or into an independently computed §404.2030 deadline. |\n| **R075-P1-C077** | Good cause considers preventing circumstances, misleading agency action, misunderstanding arising from legal changes, and physical, mental, educational, or linguistic limitations. Examples include serious illness, family death/illness, accidental record loss, diligent attempts to obtain information, requested explanation, wrong agency information, nonreceipt, good-faith delivery to another agency, and unusual/unavoidable circumstances. | **S004**, §404.911(a)(1)–(4), (b)(1)–(9). Examples are nonexclusive and require a decision; none is automatic. |\n| **R075-P1-C078** | The requested-explanation example specifies 60 days after receiving the explanation for reconsideration/hearing, and 30 days for Appeals Council review/civil suit, after a timely request for explanation. | **S004**, §404.911(b)(5). These are conditions in a good-cause example, **not universal replacement appeal periods**. |\n| **R075-P1-C079** | SSR 91-5p addresses evidence that mental incapacity prevented timely review and absence of someone legally responsible for prosecuting the claim at the prior action. If its substantive criteria are met, elapsed reopening time does not foreclose good cause; adjudicators consider the stated contemporaneous factors, assist qualifying unrepresented claimants, and resolve reasonable doubt favorably. | **S013**, Policy Interpretation. This is not an automatic extension based on illness, payee status, or current incapacity, and not a favorable merits determination. |\n| **R075-P1-C080** | Ordinary reconsideration is a case review allowing additional evidence, decided by the reviewing official. A separate medical-disability-cessation hearing rule is expressly distinguished. | **S004**, §§404.907, .913(a)–(b). A payee-capability disagreement is not automatically a disability-cessation proceeding. |\n| **R075-P1-C081** | Section 405(j)(2)(E)(i) provides hearing rights to the extent of §405(b) and judicial review of the final decision under §405(g). The latter concerns a final decision after a hearing to which the individual was a party. | **S001**, §405(j)(2)(E)(i), (b)(1), (g), all identified bodies read. Full exhaustion, judicial filing/counting, remedies, and later case law remain held; no judicial due date is asserted. |\n| **R075-P1-C082** | POMS advance-notice instructions distinguish initial/change appointments, continuation after attaining 18, specified resumption after six or more months of nonpayment, and reentitlement. They distinguish beneficiary notice, former-payee final notice, current-payee input, and special guardian/parent recipients. | **S010**, GN 00503.100(A), (E). Foreign-residence and certain parent/proposed-payee exceptions appear in the instructions; their complete legal foundation is not resolved from the selected statute/regulation. |\n| **R075-P1-C083** | POMS appeal instructions identify legally competent adults, certain guardians, emancipated minors, parents subject to termination-of-parental-rights qualifications, persons standing in a parent’s place, authorized representatives, and voluntary conservators. It separately lists non-initial actions, including an applicant’s own nonselection and specified legal-incompetence/minor-need decisions. | **S011**, GN 00503.110(A)–(B), including exceptions. Those instructions do not eliminate the need to identify the actual decision, legal role, and governing statutory/regulatory review provision. |\n| **R075-P1-C084** | POMS distinguishes an informal protest from formal reconsideration. Formal treatment requires a written protest, a beneficiary or authorized acting person, and an initial-determination issue. A dispute received before effectuation is to be resolved before processing the appointment, with review by an uninvolved authorized employee. | **S012**, GN 00503.120(A)–(D). Direct payment is described only “if possible,” not guaranteed. Revised selection requires renewed advance-notice treatment. |\n| **R075-P1-C085** | The instruction’s evidence-review procedure distinguishes eligible reviewing roles and contains a medical-disclosure hazard qualification requiring a separate disclosure decision. | **S012**, GN 00503.120(E)(3). No actual file, medical evidence, authorization, or records request was accessed or created. |\n| **R075-P1-C086** | Neither objecting, requesting review, submitting evidence, nor receiving an extension by itself establishes reversal, appointment of a preferred person, direct-payment restoration, continuing payment, or substantive benefit entitlement. | Bounded consequence of **S001**, §405(j)(2)(E); **S002**, §§404.2030, .2055; **S004**, §§404.909–.913; **S013**. [ecfr.gov+6](https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com) |\n\n## 3.7 Scope, differences, and history claims\n\n| Claim ID | Supported atomic finding | Exact authority and limit |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **R075-P1-C087** | Investigation, agency files, notification, and review requirements describe agency administration; they are not evidence that any investigation, appointment, notice, objection, or screening occurred. | **S001**, §405(j)(2); **S002**, §§404.2024–.2025, .2030. No actual records were supplied. |\n| **R075-P1-C088** | Material wording differences include nonprofit “or” versus statutory certification; the omitted fleeing bar; statutory exoneration wording; creditor safeguards; DAA “or” versus “and” within §404.2011; and statutory exceptions to periodic review not expressed in §404.2026. | **S001–S002, S015–S016**. The detailed difference table below preserves their exact limits rather than announcing a judicial reconciliation. |\n| **R075-P1-C089** | The selected appointment/selection provisions do not complete fund use, debt payment, account titling, conservation, fees, misuse recovery, removal, death, overpayment, exemption, tax, or collection law. | **S002**, structure of Subpart U, particularly downstream §§404.2035–.2065; **S001**, downstream §405(j) clauses. Pointers below are not findings on those topics. |\n| **R075-P1-C090** | The authenticated history is selective. Current compilation labels and source credits cannot establish that all intervening or later enactments, corrections, rulings, or judicial developments were examined. | **S001–S028**, read limits and failure log. |\n| **R075-P1-C091** | The 1982 final rule stated effectiveness July 14, 1982. The 1989 final rule, effective August 28, 1989, changed the near-adult initial-application example from four months to seven months. | **S018–S019**, date clauses and complete selected amendatory text. Four months is historical, not the current rule. |\n| **R075-P1-C092** | The 2004 final rule stated effectiveness November 8, 2004 and supplied the selected substantial-harm, restriction, investigation, reporting, and notice amendments. | **S020**, dates and Title II instructions 2–9. |\n| **R075-P1-C093** | The 2006 and 2008 government-hosted XML bodies state November 17, 2006 and December 10, 2008 effectiveness, respectively, but their official original-publication endpoints were not successfully read. | **S021–S022**. Those historical authentication claims remain partial, although the current regulatory clauses are readable in S002/S003. |\n| **R075-P1-C094** | The 1996 Act replaced the special DAA payee wording and related preference/deferral references. Its selected payee amendments apply to benefit applications filed after the third month following the enactment month. | **S017**, §105(a)(2), (a)(5)(B). This historical application condition is not a present application deadline. |\n| **R075-P1-C095** | The 2004 Act changed nonprofit certification and added imprisonment/fleeing screening. The selected §102 and §103 amendments use the first day of the thirteenth month beginning after enactment as their effective trigger. Section 105 redesignated the nonprofit definition to paragraph (10), with its own stated misuse-related application provision. | **S016**, §§102(a)(1), (3), 103(a), (d), 105(a), (d). Different provisions’ triggers are not merged. |\n| **R075-P1-C096** | The 2018 family-accounting exceptions took effect on enactment. | **S015**, §102(a), (d). The exception’s substantive predicates still must be established. |\n| **R075-P1-C097** | The 2018 advance-designation section states effectiveness two years after enactment, requires regulations within 18 months, and requires notification of designations by January 1, 2020 and annually thereafter. | **S015**, §201(a)–(d). These distinct legislative duties are not an applicant’s deadline. |\n| **R075-P1-C098** | The 2018 listed-felony amendments apply to new appointments on or after January 1, 2019. Prior individual payees were subject to review by January 1, 2024; absent the specified exception, the bar applies on/after SSA’s conviction determination. The transition prioritizes those serving at least 15, then unrelated beneficiaries, then beneficiaries at least 18 who are not the payee’s spouse. | **S015**, §202(d)–(e). The historical review deadline does not prove any review actually occurred. |\n| **R075-P1-C099** | The 2018 Act required periodic-review regulations within one year, with review not less often than every five years, except specified granted exemptions. | **S015**, §202(f); current §404.2026 in **S002**. |\n| **R075-P1-C100** | The 2018 own-payee bar applies to new appointments on/after January 1, 2019. For prior serving payees whose own benefits were representative-paid as of that date, SSA was directed to terminate service as soon as possible, no later than January 1, 2024. | **S015**, §203(a), (d). This does not establish an actual termination or appointment history. |\n| **R075-P1-C101** | The 2019 final rule became effective March 18, 2019. The October 25 correcting amendment, applicable beginning March 18, expressly narrowed criminal-background-check wording to individuals rather than organizations. | **S023–S024**, complete selected Title II amendments. |\n| **R075-P1-C102** | The advance-designation regulation was published February 11, 2020 and states effectiveness February 25, 2020. That is distinct from the 2018 Act’s two-year effective trigger. | **S025**, dates and Title II amendments; **S015**, §201(b). No identical-date assumption is made. |\n| **R075-P1-C103** | The accessed 2026 amendment to §405 changes subsection (r), not the selected subsection (j), and is future-effective December 27, 2026. | **S026**, complete §2(a)–(c). A current code page displaying it does not make it operative on the check date. |\n| **R075-P1-C104** | Current §402.160(b)(1) states that SSRs are published under the Commissioner’s authority and bind SSA components. That is different from asserting that POMS is a statute or that an SSR binds courts. | **S014**, §402.160(b)(1); **S013** for the specific ruling. Full later-status and judicial treatment remain unreviewed. |\n| **R075-P1-C105** | Failed endpoints establish access limitations only. They do not establish repeal, absence of an edition, bad credentials, a model limit, or authorization to bypass access controls. | Source-read/failure log below; **S003, S005–S006, S021–S022, S028**. |\n\n# 4. Provision-specific comparisons\n\n## 4.1 Mechanism and authority comparison\n\n| Distinction | Supported rule | What it does not establish | Claim/source links |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **Direct payment / representative payment** | SSA determines the payment arrangement under the interest, capability, and statutory-selection requirements. | Underlying entitlement, an actual payment, or authority over unrelated property. | **C006–C010, C023–C028; S001–S002** |\n| **Capability / legal incompetence** | Capability concerns managing or directing benefit payments. A legal-incompetence determination is a separate court-derived category with specific consequences. | That disability, age, illness, debt, or a guardian label alone proves either category. | **C009, C018–C022, C065; S002, S007–S009** |\n| **Assistance / appointment** | Help with management can coexist with the beneficiary’s ability to direct management. SSA selection is required for representative-payee status. | That a helper, agent, relative, or caregiver becomes payee by providing help. | **C006, C022, C036, C066; S002, S008–S009** |\n| **Guardian / SSA-appointed payee** | Guardianship/legal authority is a selection factor; SSA may select someone else. | Automatic appointment, automatic legal incompetence, or unrestricted federal-benefit control. | **C036, C038, C065–C067; S002, S009** |\n| **Preference / restriction** | Preferences are flexible and subordinate to qualifications, statutory bars, exceptions, and best interests. | That a preferred relationship overrides a disqualification. | **C037–C051; S001–S002** |\n| **Individual / organization** | Both may be ordinary payees; only individuals may be advance-designated. The selected criminal-background-check provisions address individuals. | That all organizational screening/monitoring is absent or that an organization qualifies. | **C006, C033, C054–C059; S001–S002, S024** |\n| **Title II / Title XVI** | This pass applies Part 404 and Title II clauses. Some statutory screens refer to prior conduct or payments under other titles. | SSI entitlement, SSI overpayment rules, or a complete common procedure across titles. | **C005, C045–C046, C055; S001–S002** |\n| **Advance designation / appointment** | A valid designee is considered in order, subject to willingness, ability, statutory requirements, and good cause. | Present authority, guaranteed selection, or a power of attorney. | **C030–C035; S001–S002** |\n| **Initial selection / later capability review** | Selection includes investigation and notice; §404.2055 permits later direct payment upon the required ability showing. | Automatic restoration from a request or from any single label. | **C053–C056, C064, C068–C081; S001–S004** |\n| **Beneficiary appeal / applicant nonselection** | The beneficiary’s payment/selection determinations are reviewable; an applicant’s own request to become payee is separately classified as non-initial. | A universal appeal right for every disappointed applicant. | **C071–C075, C083; S004, S011** |\n| **Ten-day protest condition / sixty-day reconsideration** | One concerns delay of a mailed advance action; the other concerns written reconsideration of an initial determination. | A single merged deadline, universal stay, or calculated due date. | **C070, C075–C078; S002, S004** |\n| **Appointment / downstream administration** | Appointment determines a payment recipient subject to continuing duties. | A debt-payment authorization, settlement power, fee amount, bank-account protection, restitution award, or collection result. | **C060–C064, C089; S001–S002** |\n\n## 4.2 Material wording differences and unresolved reconciliation\n\n| Text difference | Verified texts | Treatment in this pass |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| **Nonprofit licensing/bonding** | §404.2021(b)(1): State-licensed **or** bonded. §405(j)(10): annual certification of bonding **and** licensing where available. | Apply no actual category result. Report the statutory requirement and the older regulatory wording separately. **C041–C042.** |\n| **Fleeing category** | §405(j)(2)(C)(i)(V) expressly incorporates §402(x)(1)(A)(iv); §404.2022 does not enumerate it. | Regulatory list is not treated as exhaustive. Other §402 benefit-payment exceptions are not automatically imported. **C049.** |\n| **Exoneration** | Statutory listed-felony clauses expressly say “not subsequently exonerated”; §404.2022(f) does not repeat that phrase. | No conviction or exoneration determination; retain statutory qualification. **C050–C051.** |\n| **Creditor safeguards** | Statute expressly includes good-faith alternative efforts in its facility/person clause and “no other more suitable” payee for residual individuals. | Do not reduce all creditor exceptions to the regulation’s shorter category labels. Scope of disputed facility language remains held. **C047–C048.** |\n| **DAA conjunction and predicates** | §404.2011(a)(1) says drug addiction **or** alcoholism; paragraph (b) says drug addiction **and** alcoholism. §405(j)(1)(B) uses alternatives plus incapability and interest findings. | Preserve exact wording; do not infer that any substance-use label permits indefinite withholding. **C023–C029.** |\n| **Periodic screening exception** | §404.2026 broadly states individual checks at least every five years; 2018 §202(f) excludes specified granted exemptions. | No claim that every individual must undergo the identical statutory review regardless of exemption. **C059, C099.** |\n| **Guardian/conservator instruction** | POMS voluntary-conservator procedure says appointment “without further payee development” after specified steps; §405(j)(2) requires statutory investigation. | Do not read the instruction as erasing statutory requirements. Exact intended development scope remains unresolved. **C067.** |\n| **Notice instruction exceptions** | POMS adds foreign-residence and particular proposed-payee/parent/guardian exceptions; statute/regulation state the identified advance-notice recipient categories. | Record the instruction-level rules and hold their complete legal reconciliation, including unusual emancipation/under-15 edges. **C068, C082–C083.** |\n| **Ordinary direct-payment instructions / interim rule** | POMS contains categorical ordinary direct-payment instructions; §404.2011 expressly permits rebuttal of specified interim substantial-harm presumptions. | Keep the procedural settings separate. Do not erase the interim rebuttal or announce a general direct-payment entitlement. **C021, C025–C027.** |\n| **1982 original/correction** | Original selected text contains wording different from current “authorized social agency”; the cited correction body was unavailable. | Current wording is established; precise correction history remains incomplete. **C090–C091, C105; S028.** |\n\n# 5. Complete measurement register for quantities relied on\n\nNo monetary amount, benefit amount, age of a person, due date, or calendar example is calculated. “Days,” “months,” and “years” below retain the source’s unit. **No calendar-day/business-day or end-of-period convention is invented.**\n\n## 5.1 Current substantive and procedural measures\n\n| Measurement ID | Quantity, boundary, actor/object | Trigger, cumulative conditions, exceptions, and counting limit | Exact authority / claim |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **R075-P1-M001** | **18 years or older**, inclusive; beneficiary | Adult representative-payment rule requires the stated interest/information findings. Existing-direct-payment protection also requires no legal-incompetence adjudication. | §404.2010(a); §404.2001(b)(3). **C009–C010; S002** |\n| **R075-P1-M002** | **Under 18**, strict upper boundary | General minor representative payment; direct-payment examples require demonstrated ability. | §404.2010(b). **C011–C017; S002** |\n| **R075-P1-M003** | **Within seven months of attaining 18** | Minor’s initial benefit application plus ability requirement. “Within” retained; birthday arithmetic and inclusion conventions not computed. | §404.2010(b)(6). **C017; S002** |\n| **R075-P1-M004** | **Under 15**, strict upper boundary | Rebuttable interim substantial-harm presumption; statutory exception to the ordinary withholding limit assessed as of SSA’s determination. | §404.2011(a)(1), (b); §405(j)(2)(D)(ii). **C025–C027** |\n| **R075-P1-M005** | **Not more than one month**, inclusive maximum | Substantial-harm deferral/suspension while selecting payee; statutory exceptions for legal incompetence, under 15, or §405(j)(1)(B). No conversion to a number of days. | §405(j)(2)(D); §404.2011(b). **C027** |\n| **R075-P1-M006** | **18 attained, or emancipated minor** | Advance-designation age/legal-status alternative; applicant/entitled status and regulatory capability restrictions also apply. | §405(j)(1)(C); §404.2018(a). **C030** |\n| **R075-P1-M007** | **One or more individuals**; ordered consideration | Advance designation; priority information required if more than one. No nationally fixed maximum count is inferred from the selected text. | §405(j)(1)(C); §404.2018(b), (d). **C030–C033** |\n| **R075-P1-M008** | **More than one year of imprisonment**, strict “greater than” | Other-offense restriction; statutory and regulatory exception predicates remain. Not the same as an offense merely punishable by that term. | §405(j)(2)(B)(i)(IV), (C)(i)(IV); §404.2022(b). **C044** |\n| **R075-P1-M009** | **Punishable by death or imprisonment exceeding one year** | Incorporated fleeing category only where the jurisdiction does not define felony; actual sentence is not the stated measure. | §402(x)(1)(A)(iv); §405(j)(2)(C)(i)(V). **C049; S005** |\n| **R075-P1-M010** | **At least every three months** | Performance review after a prior-misuse exception, until SSA is satisfied there is no risk to the beneficiary’s best interests. Not a universal reporting interval. | §404.2022(d). **C046** |\n| **R075-P1-M011** | Disability began **before age 22**, strict boundary | Custodial-parent listed-felony exception; incorporated §423(d) disability and all relationship/best-interest conditions remain. | §405(j)(2)(C)(vi)(II)(cc); §404.2022(f)(1). **C051** |\n| **R075-P1-M012** | Former minor has **turned 18** | Parent previously served as that minor’s payee; continued benefit eligibility required. Applies to the specified listed-felony exception. | §405(j)(2)(C)(vi)(II)(ff); §404.2022(f)(2). **C051** |\n| **R075-P1-M013** | **Twelve enumerated felony categories** | Taxonomy, not a score or a threshold number of convictions. Attempts/conspiracies and exoneration qualifications remain. | §405(j)(2)(B)(iv)(I)–(XII). **C050** |\n| **R075-P1-M014** | **At least once every five years** | Appointed individual screening; statutory periodic-review exception preserved. No actual review date supplied. | §404.2026; 2018 Act §202(f). **C059, C099** |\n| **R075-P1-M015** | **Reasonable period of time** | Response to §404.2025 information request; satisfactory-reason plus later-information exception. No numerical period supplied. | §404.2025. **C060** |\n| **R075-P1-M016** | **Not less often than annually** | Statutory accountability default, subject to complete identified exceptions; suspected misuse can trigger an anytime report. | §405(j)(3)(A)–(E). **C061** |\n| **R075-P1-M017** | **Annual certification**; audit **since previous certification**, if any | Certified nonprofit bonding/licensing; licensing availability matters. Not a finding that an independent audit occurred. | §405(j)(10). **C041** |\n| **R075-P1-M018** | **Before certification / before actual appointment** | Written advance notice, identified recipients and content. No fixed number of advance days is supplied by these clauses alone. | §405(j)(2)(E)(ii); §404.2030(a). **C068–C069** |\n| **R075-P1-M019** | **Under 15** OR **unemancipated under 18** OR legally incompetent | Statutory/regulatory notice-recipient alternatives. Under-15 wording is not collapsed into the emancipation condition. | §405(j)(2)(E)(ii)(I)–(III); §404.2030(a). **C068** |\n| **R075-P1-M020** | **Within ten days after receipt** | Mailed advance notice plus protest/appeal; action delayed until SSA decides. Signed in-office notice has a separate immediate-effect clause. No deadline computed. | §404.2030(b)(2). **C070** |\n| **R075-P1-M021** | **Within 60 days after receipt** | Written reconsideration of initial determination; good-cause extension possible. Actual notice, receipt, decision type, and filing absent. | §404.909(a)–(b). **C075** |\n| **R075-P1-M022** | Receipt presumed **five days after notice date** | Expressly defined for Subpart J; rebuttable by showing nonreceipt within that period. Not automatically an added five days for every SSA period. | §404.901. **C076** |\n| **R075-P1-M023** | **60 days after explanation** | Good-cause example for reconsideration/hearing following a timely request for explanation. | §404.911(b)(5). **C078** |\n| **R075-P1-M024** | **30 days after explanation** | Same specific good-cause example for Appeals Council review/civil suit; not a general filing period. | §404.911(b)(5). **C078** |\n| **R075-P1-M025** | **Ten or more years** of railroad service | Condition on the alternative Railroad Retirement Board filing location in the reconsideration rule; not a payee-selection criterion. | §404.909(a)(2). **C075** |\n| **R075-P1-M026** | **Six or more months** of nonpayment | POMS identifies advance notice on specified resumption to the same payee; cross-referenced resumption procedure not completed. | GN 00503.100(A)(1)(c). **C082; S010** |\n| **R075-P1-M027** | **15-day diary** | POMS manual-advance-notice processing instruction; acknowledgment/agreement before expiration can affect processing. This is not substituted for the regulation’s ten-day receipt-triggered rule or the reconsideration period. | GN 00503.100(E)(3)–(4). **C082; S010** |\n| **R075-P1-M028** | **No fixed elapsed-time bar under the ruling’s stated criteria** | SSR 91-5p requires the specified incapacity and lack-of-legally-responsible-person predicates; SSA decides good cause. Not general limitless reopening. | SSR 91-5p, Policy Interpretation. **C079; S013** |\n| **R075-P1-M029** | **Great distance**, no numeric distance | Example of undue hardship making an interview impracticable; other investigation remains. | §404.2024(c). **C056** |\n| **R075-P1-M030** | **Overlapping benefit-payment period** | Own benefits certified to a payee during the period of proposed service for another. | §405(j)(2)(C)(i)(VII). **C045** |\n| **R075-P1-M031** | **Periodically updated**, no fixed interval | Statutory internal screening file; not a public inspection timetable. | §405(j)(2)(B)(ii). **C057** |\n| **R075-P1-M032** | **Ten present regulatory sections** | Count of the actual sections in the selected range; not an eligibility or evidence threshold. | S002 inventory; **C002** |\n\n## 5.2 Historical application and publication measures\n\nThese dates and periods are historical enactment, application, or publication facts. They are not personal deadlines.\n\n| Measurement ID | Source-stated date/period | Actor, trigger, boundary, and exception | Authority / claim |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **R075-P1-M033** | **January 1, 1991, on or after** | Statutory centralized-file scope for specified misuse revocations/terminations. No actual entry assumed. | §405(j)(2)(B)(ii)(I). **C057** |\n| **R075-P1-M034** | **After the third month following enactment month** | 1996 selected payee amendments; applies to benefit applications as stated. No date computed from it. | 1996 Act §105(a)(5)(B). **C094** |\n| **R075-P1-M035** | **First day of the thirteenth month beginning after enactment** | Selected 2004 nonprofit/screening amendments. | 2004 Act §§102(a)(3), 103(d). **C095** |\n| **R075-P1-M036** | Misuse determination **after 180 days after enactment** | §105’s separate application provision, read with the paragraph redesignation. No current liability calculation or application conclusion. | 2004 Act §105(d). **C095** |\n| **R075-P1-M037** | **On enactment: April 13, 2018** | Family-accountability exception amendments. | 2018 Act §102(d). **C096** |\n| **R075-P1-M038** | **Two years after enactment** | Advance-designation statutory effective trigger. | 2018 Act §201(b). **C097** |\n| **R075-P1-M039** | **Within 18 months after enactment** | Commissioner’s advance-designation regulation duty, not a beneficiary deadline. | 2018 Act §201(c). **C097** |\n| **R075-P1-M040** | **By January 1, 2020 and annually thereafter** | Statutory notification of advance designations. No actual notification established. | 2018 Act §201(d). **C097** |\n| **R075-P1-M041** | New appointments **on or after January 1, 2019** | Listed-felony and own-payee statutory amendments, subject to their respective transition clauses. | 2018 Act §§202(d), 203(d)(1). **C098, C100** |\n| **R075-P1-M042** | **Not later than January 1, 2024** | Prior individual-payee felony review; bar after the determination absent specified exception. | 2018 Act §202(e)(1). **C098** |\n| **R075-P1-M043** | **15 or more beneficiaries; age 18 attained** | Separate historical review-priority categories, with unrelated/nonspouse qualifications. Not ordinary appointment thresholds. | 2018 Act §202(e)(2). **C098** |\n| **R075-P1-M044** | **Within one year after enactment** | Commissioner’s periodic-review regulation duty; five-year review frequency and statutory exceptions separate. | 2018 Act §202(f). **C099** |\n| **R075-P1-M045** | Own representative payment **as of January 1, 2019**; termination **as soon as possible, no later than January 1, 2024** | Prior serving-payee transition only. No actual termination inferred. | 2018 Act §203(d)(2). **C100** |\n| **R075-P1-M046** | Serving individual **on or after January 1, 2019** | Statutory discretion to revoke for refusal to permit a background check. | §405(j)(2)(B)(v)(II). **C055** |\n| **R075-P1-M047** | **July 14, 1982** publication/effectiveness; historical **four months** | Original selected regulation; four-month example superseded by the authenticated 1989 amendment. | **S018; C091** |\n| **R075-P1-M048** | **August 28, 1989** publication/effectiveness | Seven-month amendment; no AFDC conclusion imported. | **S019; C091** |\n| **R075-P1-M049** | **October 7 / November 8, 2004** | Publication / effectiveness, respectively. | **S020; C092** |\n| **R075-P1-M050** | **October 18 / November 17, 2006** | Publication / displayed effectiveness; original-publication gap remains. | **S021; C093** |\n| **R075-P1-M051** | **November 10 / December 10, 2008** | Publication / displayed effectiveness; original-publication gap remains. | **S022; C093** |\n| **R075-P1-M052** | **February 15 / March 18, 2019** | Final-rule publication / effectiveness. | **S023; C101** |\n| **R075-P1-M053** | **October 25, 2019**; applicability beginning **March 18, 2019** | Correcting amendment’s effective and application dates, respectively. | **S024; C101** |\n| **R075-P1-M054** | **February 11 / February 25, 2020** | Advance-designation rule publication / effectiveness; not conflated with M038. | **S025; C102** |\n| **R075-P1-M055** | **February 10 / December 27, 2026** | Enactment / future effectiveness of the unrelated §405(r) amendment. | **S026; C103** |\n| **R075-P1-M056** | **July 1, 1991** | SSR 91-5p’s stated effective/publication date; not a current appeal trigger. | **S013; C079, C104** |\n| **R075-P1-M057** | **April 1, 2025; October 7, 20, 26, 27, 2026** | Respectively annual CFR edition; alternate statutory cutoff; main statutory cutoff; refreshed eCFR cutoff; actual Los Angeles access date. | **S001–S006, S027; C001–C004** |\n| **R075-P1-M058** | **October 19, 2026** | Title-wide last-amended display, not proof of amendment to each selected provision. | **S002, S004; C001, C004** |\n| **R075-P1-M059** | All POMS **TN, revision, and batch dates** individually recorded in S007–S012 | Instruction metadata only; not silently treated as enactment or effectiveness. | **S007–S012; C004** |\n| **R075-P1-M060** | **March 29, 1996; March 2, 2004; April 13, 2018; December 18, 2024; July 30, 1982** | Respectively enacted-history dates, Part 402 source-credit date, and the unverified correction’s cited publication date. The last two are not authenticated complete amendment chains. | **S014–S018, S028; C090–C105** |\n\nNo denominator, percentage, financial amount, benefit formula, or actual calendar model is used. Document page numbers, section numbers, and claim identifiers are locators, not financial or eligibility measures.\n\n# 6. Substantive conditional legal-category branches\n\nEach branch provides a permissible **generic public-law** next inquiry. None requests a person’s records or proposes filling the missing facts.\n\n| Branch ID | Conditional rule and cumulative qualifications | Missing evidence/authority | Adverse inference to avoid | Next permissible generic inquiry |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **R075-P1-B001 — Program unknown** | Part 404 governs this Title II component; shared screening references do not establish SSI coverage. **C005; S001–S002.** | Program classification and separate other-title law. | “All SSA benefits use identical rules.” | Examine the public program-scope provision for the separately authorized program. |\n| **B002 — Direct/representative distinction** | Representative payment requires SSA’s interest determination and qualified selection. **C006–C009.** | No decision or payment facts. | “Receiving help creates a payee.” | Read the generic distinction in §§404.2001 and .2010. |\n| **B003 — Adult age/capability/legal status** | Adult rule and existing-direct-payment protection use different cumulative predicates. **C009–C010; M001.** | No age, adjudication, or payment status. | “Old age or disability proves incapacity.” | Compare the complete predicates of §§404.2001(b)(3) and .2010(a). |\n| **B004 — Minor exception** | Under-18 direct payment requires ability and applicable circumstances; examples are not automatic. **C011–C017.** | No legal category or ability determination. | “Being near 18 always permits direct payment.” | Examine §404.2010(b)’s introductory condition with the selected example. |\n| **B005 — Evidence insufficient** | Court, available medical, and lay evidence have distinct roles. **C018–C022.** | No evidence; no adjudication of sufficiency. | “One diagnosis or absence of medical evidence decides the issue.” | Read generic evidence instructions without seeking a health or court record. |\n| **B006 — Ability to direct management** | Ability to direct others can satisfy capability even if personal task performance is limited. **C008, C022.** | No functional facts. | “Physical assistance necessarily requires a payee.” | Examine the complete agency explanation of managing versus directing management. |\n| **B007 — Existing direct payment** | At least 18, already directly paid, and not adjudged legally incompetent triggers the specified continuation rule while SSA decides. **C010.** | All application predicates absent. | “Any capability question automatically suspends payment.” | Examine the interaction of §404.2001(b)(3) with §404.2011. |\n| **B008 — Interim substantial harm** | Outside presumptive categories, both serious-injury expectation and the injury/no-income balancing finding are required. **C024–C027.** | No causation, injury, or agency finding. | “Unwise spending equals substantial harm.” | Compare both regulatory examples and the full two-part test. |\n| **B009 — DAA category** | Disability-based benefit, SSA-determined condition, incapability, and interest are cumulative statutory predicates. **C023, C027–C029.** | Benefit category and all findings absent. | “A substance-use label allows indefinite withholding.” | Examine §405(j)(1)(B), (8), and (2)(D) together. |\n| **B010 — Individual/organization** | Both may be ordinary payees; organizations cannot be advance-designated; individual screening wording is specific. **C006, C033, C059.** | No category or qualification facts. | “Organizational status alone proves qualification or exemption.” | Read the public category-specific provisions without a provider lookup. |\n| **B011 — Custody/relationship/interest** | These are separate selection factors; specified lists sometimes require custody, sometimes concern, sometimes support contributions. **C036, C038–C039.** | No relationship, custody, support, or concern facts. | “Nearest relative necessarily wins.” | Compare the exact category clauses in §404.2021. |\n| **B012 — Preference/departure** | Preferences are flexible; advance priority remains conditional on qualification and interests. **C032, C037.** | No designee or best-interest determination. | “Preference creates an enforceable appointment entitlement.” | Examine the stated departure/good-cause provisions. |\n| **B013 — Guardian not appointed** | Guardian status is relevant but not independently sufficient; SSA may select another person. **C065.** | No court instrument or appointment. | “Court appointment automatically creates federal payee status.” | Read generic SSA guardian instructions; State-law consequences remain separately held. |\n| **B014 — Creditor/institution** | Creditor exceptions require the stated risk/conflict and category conditions; statutory alternative-payee safeguards also matter. **C047–C048.** | No creditor relationship, licensing, conflict, or alternatives. | “A care provider may appoint itself to secure payment.” | Examine the full statutory and regulatory creditor clauses, including unresolved wording differences. |\n| **B015 — Restricted conviction category** | Distinct bars have distinct exceptions; listed-felony exceptions do not override every other bar. **C043–C052.** | No offense classification, conviction, exoneration, pardon, custody, or interest finding. | “All convictions either bar service forever or are cured by family status.” | Read the narrow incorporated public offense category only under a separately bounded inquiry. |\n| **B016 — Own payee** | Statutory bar concerns overlapping representative payment of the proposed payee’s own benefits. **C045.** | No payment periods or appointment facts. | “Any past payee relationship creates a lifetime bar.” | Compare current wording with the 2018 transition clauses. |\n| **B017 — Prior misuse exception** | All regulatory exception conditions and periodic monitoring apply. **C046.** | No determination, repayment/plan, alternative, or suitability evidence. | “A repayment promise automatically restores eligibility.” | Examine the complete exception and its statutory authorization. |\n| **B018 — Advance designation** | Eligible applicant/beneficiary may designate individuals; later selection requires all statutory qualifications and no displacing good cause. **C030–C035.** | No valid designation, capacity predicate, willingness, or investigation. | “Designation is a present power of attorney.” | Examine §404.2018 in full and the incorporated §405(j)(2) conditions. |\n| **B019 — Agency investigation** | Investigation precedes certification; limited interview exceptions do not erase all inquiries. **C053–C058.** | No actual investigation or findings. | “A statutory duty proves screening occurred.” | Compare statute and regulation’s required categories without querying any person. |\n| **B020 — Beneficiary objection** | Need-for-payee and identity objections can concern different determinations. **C068–C075.** | No decision, objection, or authorized acting role. | “Any third party has the beneficiary’s appeal right.” | Identify the generic decision category and applicable review provision. |\n| **B021 — Initial notice** | Advance written notice has specified recipients and contents; POMS adds recipient instructions requiring careful bounding. **C068–C069, C082.** | No notice, legal status, or recipient facts; certain instruction-level legal bases incomplete. | “Current payee, proposed payee, and beneficiary always receive identical notice.” | Examine the public legal foundation of the particular recipient exception. |\n| **B022 — Timing/receipt** | Ten-day mailed-notice action delay, sixty-day reconsideration, and five-day Subpart J receipt presumption are separate. **C070, C075–C078.** | No dates, delivery method, rebuttal, or counting convention. | “All periods can be added into one due date.” | Read the precise counting/delivery authority before any later calendar analysis. |\n| **B023 — Appeal/other procedure** | Beneficiary selection review differs from applicant nonselection and informal protest. **C071–C084.** | No decision classification or standing. | “Every payee-related action is an appealable initial determination.” | Compare §404.902, §404.903(c), and the bounded POMS lists. |\n| **B024 — Good cause/incapacity** | Good cause is decided on circumstances; SSR 91-5p has its own incapacity and legally-responsible-person predicates. **C077–C079.** | No contemporaneous limitation, representation, or lateness facts. | “Current illness automatically extends every deadline.” | Examine the ruling’s complete conditions and current regulatory good-cause provision. |\n| **B025 — Later capability change** | Direct payment follows the required showing under §404.2055, not merely a request. **C064.** | No ability showing or resolved legal-status evidence. | “A new statement automatically cancels the payee.” | Read generic restoration evidence rules and separately identify any legal-status issue. |\n| **B026 — Other assets/debt authority absent** | Selected provisions authorize a federal-benefit payment arrangement; broader powers are not established. **C035, C066, C089.** | No separate legal instrument or applicable downstream law. | “Payee appointment authorizes debt settlement or all-asset control.” | Separately scope the precise public fund-use or agency-law provision; no transaction drafting. |\n| **B027 — Downstream administration held** | Use, accounting, conservation, fees, misuse, replacement, and overpayment have separate provisions. **C060–C064, C089.** | Complete downstream legal bodies not investigated. | “This selection report answers how benefits may be spent.” | Use the exact next-provision pointers in §7 below. |\n| **B028 — Statutory/regulatory difference** | Statutory qualifications cannot be erased by a shorter regulatory list or older wording. **C041–C042, C048–C051, C088.** | Reconciliation beyond express text and complete later history. | “The texts are identical” or “the regulation has been judicially invalidated.” | Locate a material enacted amendment/final rule or generic official clarification; keep judicial merits held. |\n| **B029 — Currentness/source gap** | Current displays are bounded by stated cutoffs; failed originals remain gaps. **C001–C004, C090–C105.** | Unread corrections, later-law chain, original 2006/2008 publications. | “Failed access proves repeal or no law.” | Reattempt ordinary public original-publication access, without bypassing a gate. |\n| **B030 — Other law/parent scope** | No complete SSI, disability, guardianship, tax, protected-funds, collection, bankruptcy, or debt-relief result follows. **C005, C089.** | Separate regimes and all application facts. | “This component completes A075 or supports a financial action.” | Define a separate generic public-law component before researching that regime. |\n| **B031 — POMS voluntary-conservator instruction** | The instruction has specific request/court/application predicates and a best-interest caution; statutory investigation remains unresolved as to any claimed abbreviated process. **C067.** | Legal reconciliation and every factual predicate. | “Convenience alone permits appointment” or “screening is waived.” | Obtain a public official clarification of the instruction’s development scope. |\n| **B032 — Foreign/minor instruction edge** | POMS recipient exceptions do not by themselves resolve statutory under-15/emancipation or foreign-residence questions. **C068, C082–C083, C088.** | Indispensable legal basis beyond selected sources. | “An instruction exception universally overrides the statutory notice language.” | Examine only the public authority supporting the specific exception in a separately bounded inquiry. |\n\n# 7. Downstream and other-law boundaries: exact next-provision pointers\n\nThese are **pointers**, not completed findings or permission to act.\n\n| Held topic | Next public-law provision or source to examine | What remains unestablished |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| General payee responsibilities; ownership/separation of funds | **20 CFR §404.2035** | Complete duties, exceptions, account ownership, and practical implementation |\n| Current maintenance and debt payment | **20 CFR §404.2040**, including the complete debt-payment clause and adjacent qualifications | Whether any debt may be paid, priority, validity, settlement, or creditor entitlement |\n| Fees and qualified fee organizations | **20 CFR §404.2040a; 42 USC §405(j)(4), (10)** | Qualification, current adjusted amounts, authorization, fee collection, exceptions |\n| Misuse, restitution, reissuance, negligence, liability | **20 CFR §404.2041; 42 USC §405(j)(5), (7), (9)** | Actual misuse, recovery, liability, or an amount payable |\n| Conservation, investments, account titling | **20 CFR §404.2045** | Permitted account arrangement, investment, ownership proof, banking protection |\n| Removal/replacement beyond the narrow clauses read | **20 CFR §404.2050** and necessary current statutory provisions | Complete grounds, interim payment consequences, notices, and implementation |\n| Transfers of conserved benefits; death-related consequences | **20 CFR §404.2060** and indispensable death/underpayment provisions | Recipient, estate, transfer, or ownership outcome |\n| Complete accountability and monitoring | **20 CFR §404.2065; 42 USC §405(j)(3), (6), (12)** | Full reporting, exception, review, grants, or oversight obligations |\n| Foster-care reassessment | **42 USC §405(j)(11)** and incorporated **§§674(a)(3)(C), 675(8)** | Covered child category, State-system definition, actual reassessment |\n| Overpayment | **20 CFR Part 404, Subpart F**, with applicable statutory provisions | Liability, waiver, recovery, offsets, or personal repayment obligation |\n| Formal representative in an SSA proceeding | **20 CFR Part 404, Subpart R** | Appointment, authority, fees, access, and distinction from payee |\n| Judicial review/counting/exhaustion | **42 USC §405(g)** and complete applicable judicial-review regulation, including **20 CFR §422.210**, if separately authorized | Filing trigger/counting, exhaustion, jurisdictional merits, remedies |\n| SSI | **42 USC §1383(a)(2); 20 CFR Part 416, Subpart F** | No SSI rule is adopted from this Title II report |\n| Guardianship, powers of attorney, protected funds, tax, collection, bankruptcy | Separately scoped applicable public legal bodies | No State/federal private-law, immunity, exemption, tax, debt, or collection conclusion |\n\n# 8. Wholly blank analytical evidence worksheet\n\n**Every entry cell below is intentionally empty.** Labels identify analytical categories only. This is not an application, questionnaire, screening instrument, records request, or operative legal document.\n\n| Analytical field | Authority entry | Evidence entry | Analysis | Result |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Source and publication type |  |  |  |  |\n| Displayed version and compilation cutoff |  |  |  |  |\n| Legal status and effective/application trigger |  |  |  |  |\n| Access date and complete/selected read bounds |  |  |  |  |\n| Program and generic beneficiary category |  |  |  |  |\n| Direct/representative payment classification |  |  |  |  |\n| Capability versus legal-status classification |  |  |  |  |\n| Manage versus direct-management criterion |  |  |  |  |\n| Generic legal/medical/lay evidence category |  |  |  |  |\n| Existing-direct-payment provision |  |  |  |  |\n| Interim substantial-harm provision |  |  |  |  |\n| Individual/organizational category |  |  |  |  |\n| Relationship/custody/interest criterion |  |  |  |  |\n| Preference and departure provision |  |  |  |  |\n| Restriction and exception provision |  |  |  |  |\n| Creditor/institutional qualification |  |  |  |  |\n| Advance designation versus appointment |  |  |  |  |\n| Agency investigation requirement |  |  |  |  |\n| Agency decision type |  |  |  |  |\n| Notice category, recipient, and content |  |  |  |  |\n| Objection/reconsideration/review classification |  |  |  |  |\n| Quantity, unit, boundary, and trigger |  |  |  |  |\n| Delivery/receipt/counting convention |  |  |  |  |\n| Good-cause or other exception |  |  |  |  |\n| Later capability-review provision |  |  |  |  |\n| Cross-reference and unresolved scope |  |  |  |  |\n| Statutory/regulatory/instruction difference |  |  |  |  |\n| Downstream administration boundary |  |  |  |  |\n| Other-law and jurisdiction boundary |  |  |  |  |\n| Currentness and original-source gap |  |  |  |  |\n| Missing authority or predicate |  |  |  |  |\n| Next permissible generic public-law inquiry |  |  |  |  |\n\n# 9. Granular coverage and question-to-claim crosswalk\n\n“Answered” means the generic public-text question was answered within the stated read bounds. It never means an actual beneficiary or payee has been classified.\n\n| Coverage ID / requested question | Status and finding | Claim/source/branch links | Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| **Q1-a — Every section present in requested range** | **Answered.** Complete inventory and full selected reads. | C002; S002–S003; §2 inventory | No application facts sought. |\n| **Q1-b — Nested exceptions/examples/notes** | **Answered for current selected regulations.** Both substantial-harm and creditor examples read. | C011–C029, C043–C056 | Original correction history remains partial under Q8. |\n| **Q1-c — Necessary §405(j) clauses** | **Answered with explicit bounds.** Complete relevant selection/notice clauses and narrow safeguards read. | S001; C003, C023, C030–C063 | Other §405(j) regimes expressly identified as uncompleted. |\n| **Q1-d — Exact unread remainder** | **Answered.** Read-versus-exposed-versus-held distinction supplied. | §1 read-bound statement | No claim of whole-§405(j) review. |\n| **Q1-e — Publication/version/legal status** | **Answered with currentness limits.** | C001–C004, C090, C103–C105; S001–S028 | Complete later-law/judicial audit not performed. |\n| **Q2-a — Title II versus XVI** | **Answered.** Cross-title screens bounded. | C005; B001; S001–S002 | Separate SSI provisions are next inquiry only if authorized. |\n| **Q2-b — Beneficiary/payee/direct payment** | **Answered.** SSA-selected payment role distinguished from entitlement and assistance. | C006–C010; B002 | All actual program/decision facts absent. |\n| **Q2-c — Capability/legal incompetence/age** | **Answered.** Distinct tests, categories, and exceptions. | C009–C029; B003–B009; M001–M006 | No individual age, adjudication, or ability facts. |\n| **Q2-d — Guardian/legal representative/organization** | **Answered with State-law hold.** | C033, C036–C042, C065–C067; B010–B014 | Full State-law powers and Treasury rules not investigated. |\n| **Q3-a — Legal/medical/lay evidence** | **Answered.** Full §404.2015 and material POMS read. | C018–C022; S002, S007–S009; B005 | No evidence evaluated. |\n| **Q3-b — Manage OR direct management** | **Answered.** Direction capability expressly retained. | C008, C022, C064; B006 | No functional assessment permitted or needed. |\n| **Q3-c — Continued direct payment** | **Answered.** Existing-payment and interim-selection settings separated. | C010, C024–C029; B007–B009 | No actual payment stage or harm finding. |\n| **Q3-d — Presumptions/safeguards** | **Answered with textual differences held.** | C021, C025–C029, C088 | No universal presumption beyond its specific context. |\n| **Q4-a — Investigation/application process** | **Answered generically.** | C053–C058; S001–S002; B019 | No screening or application was performed. |\n| **Q4-b — Preference orders by category** | **Answered.** Complete adult, minor, and special statutory lists supplied. | C036–C042; B010–B012 | No category or best-interest application. |\n| **Q4-c — Mandatory/discretionary distinctions** | **Answered.** Preferences, bars, exceptions, and SSA discretion separated. | C037–C059 | Actual suitability remains unknown. |\n| **Q4-d — Creditor/institution safeguards** | **Answered as text; reconciliation partial.** | C047–C048; B014; difference table | Exact disputed reach of facility clause requires further generic legal clarification. |\n| **Q4-e — Restricted categories/exceptions** | **Answered as selected law.** | C043–C052; B015–B017 | Offense elements, convictions, exoneration, pardons, and records excluded. |\n| **Q4-f — Changed statute/older regulation** | **Answered as identified differences; merits unresolved.** | C041–C042, C049–C051, C059, C088 | No judicial harmonization or invalidity conclusion. |\n| **Q5-a — Advance designation established?** | **Answered.** Present in selected statute and §404.2018. | C030–C034; S001–S002 | No actual designation. |\n| **Q5-b — Eligibility/change/withdrawal** | **Answered.** Full regulatory conditions read. | C030–C031; M006–M007 | No capability or application determination. |\n| **Q5-c — Relationship to appointment** | **Answered.** Ordered conditional consideration; organization exclusion. | C032–C035; B018 | Willingness, ability, investigation, good cause absent. |\n| **Q5-d — Other powers** | **Answered as a boundary.** No independent authority inferred. | C035, C066; B026 | Separate agency/guardianship/fund-use law held. |\n| **Q6-a — Necessary outside-range notice rule** | **Answered.** Complete §404.2030 read. | C068–C070; S002 | No actual notice. |\n| **Q6-b — Recipients/content** | **Answered; instruction-level edges partial.** | C068–C069, C082–C083; B021, B032 | Foreign/minor/proposed-payee exceptions need complete legal foundation before application. |\n| **Q6-c — Ten-day action delay** | **Answered.** Mailed notice and timely protest/appeal conditions preserved. | C070; M020 | Counting conventions and actual dates absent; no computation. |\n| **Q6-d — Initial determination/standing** | **Answered.** Beneficiary review distinguished from applicant nonselection. | C071–C075, C083; B020, B023 | Decision classification and actual authorized role absent. |\n| **Q6-e — Sixty-day reconsideration/receipt** | **Answered.** Complete narrow cross-references read. | C075–C078; M021–M025; S004 | No transposition to unrelated decisions or actual deadline. |\n| **Q6-f — Good cause/incapacity** | **Answered with ruling-status/judicial limits.** | C077–C079; S013–S014; B024 | No incapacity/representation evidence; acquiescence/judicial history held. |\n| **Q6-g — Decisionmaker/process/evidence** | **Answered within initial/reconsideration scope.** | C080, C084–C085; S004, S012 | Full later hearing/evidence/records-access regimes held. |\n| **Q6-h — Direct-payment restoration** | **Answered.** Complete §404.2055 read. | C064; B025 | No ability showing or legal-status resolution. |\n| **Q6-i — Judicial review** | **Partial by scope.** Statutory right and incorporated body read; full judicial procedure not supplied. | C081; S001 | Next narrow source would be applicable complete judicial-review regulation; no case search. |\n| **Q7-a — Direct/representative comparison** | **Answered.** | §4; C006–C010, C024–C029 | No actual outcome. |\n| **Q7-b — Capability/legal incompetence/guardian** | **Answered with State-law hold.** | §4; C018–C022, C065–C067 | No broader guardianship conclusion. |\n| **Q7-c — Preference/disqualification** | **Answered.** | §4; C037–C059 | Each actual predicate absent. |\n| **Q7-d — Title II/XVI and designation/appointment** | **Answered.** | §4; C005, C030–C035 | Separate program rules not imported. |\n| **Q7-e — Initial/later review** | **Answered within selected clauses.** | C060–C064, C068–C086 | Full replacement/administration held. |\n| **Q7-f — Use/debt/accounts/conservation/fees** | **Excluded with reason:** downstream component. Exact pointers supplied. | C089; §7; B026–B027 | Read complete §§404.2035–.2045 only in a separately scoped pass. |\n| **Q7-g — Misuse/removal/death/overpayment** | **Excluded except narrow indispensable safeguards.** | C061–C064, C089; §7 | Full downstream clauses and cross-references remain. |\n| **Q7-h — Protected funds/tax/collection/other benefits** | **Excluded with reason:** separate regimes and absent facts. | C005, C089; B030 | New generic public-law component required. |\n| **Q8-a — Material enacted changes** | **Answered for selected 1996/2004/2018 bodies.** | C094–C100; S015–S017 | Not a full historical chain. |\n| **Q8-b — Regulatory adoption/amendments** | **Answered for successful originals; partial for 2006/2008 and 1982 correction.** | C091–C093, C101–C102; S018–S025, S028 | Ordinary official-original access remains the next inquiry. |\n| **Q8-c — Renumbering/cross-references** | **Answered for §405(j)(10) redesignation; partial for other histories.** | C095; S016 | Part 402 reorganization original not independently authenticated. |\n| **Q8-d — Future-effective material** | **Answered.** 2026 §405(r) amendment segregated. | C103; S026 | No representative-payee amendment inferred from it. |\n| **Q8-e — Failure handling** | **Answered.** Exact failures and alternatives logged. | C105; §10 | Failures do not prove legal absence. |\n| **Q8-f — Complete later history/judicial certification** | **Unresolved and held.** | C090; B029 | No comprehensive session-law, rescission, or judicial audit claimed. |\n| **Q9-a — Every relied-on age/count/period** | **Answered.** Current measures registered. | M001–M032 | All application facts absent. |\n| **Q9-b — Historical dates/application windows** | **Answered.** Separate historical register. | M033–M060 | No actual deadline generated. |\n| **Q9-c — Units/boundaries/exceptions/receipt** | **Answered where text supplies them; unresolved where it does not.** | M001–M060; B022 | Calendar/business-day and end-of-period conventions not invented. |\n| **Q9-d — Financial or calendar model** | **Excluded as unnecessary.** | Measurement introduction | No actual or fictional inputs. |\n| **Q10-a — At least twenty meaningful branches** | **Answered:** thirty-two conditional branches. | B001–B032 | Every branch identifies missing predicates/authority and next inquiry. |\n| **Q10-b — All requested branch themes** | **Answered**, including program, capability, direct payment, preference, creditor, restriction, designation, investigation, notice, timing, review, later change, downstream, mismatch, currentness, and other law. | B001–B032, mapped to exact C/S references | No manufactured requirement used to fill a row. |\n| **Q11-a — Wholly blank worksheet** | **Answered.** All entry/analysis/result cells empty. | §8 | No identity, health, financial, legal-status, or transaction fields populated. |\n| **Q11-b — Source/program/evidence/selection fields** | **Answered.** | §8 | Analytical labels only. |\n| **Q11-c — Notice/quantity/cross-reference/gap fields** | **Answered.** | §8 | No computed result or operative language. |\n| **Q11-d — No application/screening/decision tool** | **Answered as a design boundary.** | §8; researcher self-check | Worksheet is not used to make a personal determination. |\n\n# 10. Source-read and failure log\n\n## 10.1 Successful reads and alternatives\n\n| Log item | What actually happened | Evidentiary consequence |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Main regulation | Complete current selected sections obtained from S002; selected 2025 official annual pages also read. | Current text and historical official edition are distinguished; they are not independent corroboration of a full amendment chain. |\n| Main statute | A legacy OLRC endpoint failed; the release-specific S001 endpoint succeeded. | Claims use the successful current displayed body and exact read bounds. |\n| Incorporated §402 and §423 | Newer attempted endpoints failed; readable official alternatives displayed October 7, 2026 compilation. | Earlier cutoff retained at source and coverage level; no assertion that the failures mean repeal or absence. |\n| Enacted history | Selected complete enacted clauses in the 1996, 2004, 2018 Acts obtained from GPO. | Statutory changes/effective predicates rest on amendatory bodies, not notes alone. |\n| 2026 displayed amendment | Classification entry traced to complete Public Law 119-77. | Future effectiveness and different subsection identified; not treated as current §405(j) change. |\n| Final rules | Official PDFs read for 1982, 1989, 2004, 2019, the 2019 correction, and 2020 within stated bounds. | Printed pages and zero-based PDF indices recorded; no whole-issue or pixel review claimed. |\n| 2006/2008 rules | Government-hosted XML amendatory bodies readable; attempted official GPO originals failed. | Historical original authentication remains partial. |\n| POMS and SSR | Identified complete instruction/ruling bodies read. | Revision, TN, batch, publication, and legal status kept distinct. |\n| Older SSR-status locator | Current §402.35 was a different subject; current §402.160(b) supplied the relevant publication/status language. | No claim that the old locator still supports SSR status; no records-request procedure pursued. |\n| Discovery material | Search excerpts, unexamined secondary mirrors, and unexamined linked instructions were not used as substantive proof. | No case, party, provider, roster, or actual record investigation. |\n\n## 10.2 Failed endpoints preserved\n\n| Failed original/endpoint | Result and readable alternative |\n| --- | --- |\n| [https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section405&num=0&edition=prelim](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section405&num=0&edition=prelim) | Returned failure/404. Successful alternative: **S001**. |\n| [https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s402/](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s402/) | Not accessible through the browsing tool. Official earlier-display alternative: **S005**. |\n| [https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s423/](https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s423/) | Not accessible. Official earlier-display alternative: **S006**. |\n| [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2026-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2026-title20-vol2-part404-subpartU.pdf](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2026-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2026-title20-vol2-part404-subpartU.pdf) | Failed. This does not establish that no 2026 edition exists. Current eCFR and selected official 2025 pages were used within their respective limits. |\n| [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2026-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2026-title20-vol2-sec404-2001.pdf](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2026-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2026-title20-vol2-sec404-2001.pdf) | Failed; no inference about the law or publication’s existence. |\n| [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2025-title20-vol2-part404-subpartU.pdf](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2025-title20-vol2-part404-subpartU.pdf) | Failed; section-specific official 2025 PDFs in **S003** succeeded. |\n| [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/pdf/E6-17320.pdf](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/pdf/E6-17320.pdf) and [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/pdf/e6-17320.pdf](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/pdf/e6-17320.pdf) | Both attempted PDF variants failed. **S021** XML body was readable but remains an unofficial rendition. |\n| [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/html/E6-17320.htm](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/html/E6-17320.htm) | Failed; no original-body certification. |\n| [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/pdf/E8-26680.pdf](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/pdf/E8-26680.pdf) and [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/pdf/e8-26680.pdf](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/pdf/e8-26680.pdf) | Both attempted PDF variants failed. **S022** XML body was readable within its status limitation. |\n| [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/html/E8-26680.htm](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/html/E8-26680.htm) | Failed; no original-body certification. |\n| [https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/47-FR-32936](https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/47-FR-32936) | Failed citation endpoint; correction body remains unverified. |\n| [https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1982/7/30/32935-32937.pdf](https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1982/7/30/32935-32937.pdf) | Attempted archival alternative failed. No page contents inferred. |\n| [https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1982-07-30/pdf/FR-1982-07-30.pdf](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1982-07-30/pdf/FR-1982-07-30.pdf) | Attempted official issue alternative failed. No security workaround used. |\n\nThe official SSA statutory alternative [https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title02/0205.htm](https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/ssact/title02/0205.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com) was also opened during discovery, but its introductory material was not used as a substitute for the completed OLRC clause reads or counted as independent corroboration.\n\n# 11. Explicit gaps and limits\n\n1. **No actual application is established.** Program entitlement, capability, legal status, relationships, custody, conviction categories, creditor status, designation, willingness, suitability, notice, receipt, objection, and payment facts are absent. The conditional findings therefore produce no personal eligibility, appointment, appeal, or payment result.\n2. **Currentness is bounded.** The main successful statutory display was through October 20, 2026; the refreshed eCFR through October 26; the incorporated §402 and §423 alternatives displayed October 7. No exhaustive post-cutoff session-law, regulatory, rescission, or judicial audit is claimed.\n3. **Original-history gaps remain.** The 1982 correction body was unavailable. The 2006 and 2008 amendatory text was readable in the government’s expressly unofficial XML presentation, while attempted official GPO original endpoints failed.\n4. **Textual differences are preserved.** The nonprofit, fleeing, exoneration, creditor, DAA, periodic-review, voluntary-conservator, and notice-instruction issues are not silently harmonized. No controlling judicial interpretation or invalidity conclusion is supplied.\n5. **Counting remains bounded.** The selected sources support the stated ten-day action-delay condition, sixty-day reconsideration period, and Subpart J receipt presumption. This report does not infer every counting convention, combine periods, or calculate any deadline.\n6. **Downstream legal regimes remain separate.** Narrow reporting and misuse clauses were read to avoid inaccurate selection claims, but this is not a completed fund-use, debt-payment, fees, accounting, removal, restitution, overpayment, protected-funds, tax, collection, or bankruptcy report.\n7. **Instruction status remains distinct.** POMS is used as published agency operating instruction; SSR 91-5p is identified as a policy-interpretation ruling with the agency-status provision read. Neither is presented as an enacted statute, and neither supplies a complete judicial-enforcement analysis.\n8. **No independent review or acceptance occurred.** This is a researcher’s public-text investigation and self-check. It does not provide component, A075/parent, operational, or publication acceptance.\n\n# 12. Researcher self-check — not independent review\n\n| Check | Result |\n| --- | --- |\n| Independent reopening of public originals | Completed for the sources and bounds identified; earlier reports were not premises. |\n| Every actual section in §§404.2001–404.2025 | Read completely and inventoried. |\n| Necessary §405(j) clauses and unread remainder | Specified expressly; no whole-regime claim. |\n| Statute/regulation/instruction/history separation | Maintained in source, claim, and difference registers. |\n| Material cumulative conditions and exceptions | Included for capability, interim payment, selection, restrictions, designation, notice, and reconsideration. |\n| Source-stated quantities relied on | Registered with actor, trigger, boundary, exceptions, and limits; no actual calculation. |\n| Actual or invented identifying investigation | None conducted. |\n| Actual records, forms, notices, applications, screening, filings, or contacts | None accessed, created, completed, or 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Statutory codification, with separate editorial, amendment, and effective-date notes.","Complete substantive review of §405(j)(1); (2)(A)–(E), all nested clauses; (3)(A)–(F); (8), (9), (10), and (11). Also read §405(a), (b)(1), and (g). Sections (j)(3)(G)–(H) were read only to identify administrative-file/list boundaries. Other downstream passages were exposed during retrieval but were not adopted as a complete administration/remedies dossier. Selected 1996, 2004, 2018, and 2026 notes checked against the enacted instruments listed below. No whole-§405 or whole-§405(j) certification. \nuscode.house.gov\n+2"],["R075-P1-S002","Office of the Federal Register/GPO, SSA regulations, 20 CFR Part 404, Subpart U—Representative Payment. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U","Refreshed display: Title 20 up to date October 26, 2026; title last amended October 19, 2026. eCFR describes itself as authoritative but unofficial, not the official legal print edition.","Every section actually present from §§404.2001 through 404.2025 read completely, including examples and source notes. Narrow additions read completely: §§404.2026, 404.2030, and 404.2055. Other downstream sections appearing in retrieval were not adopted as completed topics. The title-wide amendment date does not establish that each selected section changed that day. \necfr.gov\n+3"],["R075-P1-S003","GPO, 2025 official annual CFR, Title 20, volume 2. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2025-title20-vol2-sec404-2001.pdf; https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2025-title20-vol2-sec404-2022.pdf; https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2025-title20-vol2-sec404-2024.pdf","April 1, 2025 edition; official annual legal publication, historical relative to the access date.","Complete §404.2001: printed 706, PDF index 0. Complete §404.2022: printed 710–711, indices 0–1. Complete §404.2024: printed 711–712, indices 0–1; adjacent §§404.2025–2026 also visible. Overlapping pages and section PDFs are formats of the same edition, not independent corroboration. The annual edition does not prove the 2026 chain. \ngovinfo.gov\n+2"],["R075-P1-S004","OFR/GPO, SSA, 20 CFR Part 404, Subpart J—Determinations, Administrative Review Process, and Reopening. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-J","Current eCFR display through October 26, 2026, title last amended October 19, 2026; authoritative unofficial compilation.","Complete §§404.900, .901, .904, .905, .907, .908, .909, .911, and .913; §404.902 introductory language and (o), (p), (q); §404.903 introductory language and (c). Other clauses appeared incidentally but were not used to complete unrelated proceedings. Full ALJ, Appeals Council, judicial-filing, reopening, evidence, and representation regimes remain held. \necfr.gov\n+2"],["R075-P1-S005","OLRC, 42 USC §402, Old-age and survivors insurance benefit payments. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s402/","Page displayed compilation through Public Law 119-120, October 7, 2026, notwithstanding the URL’s release segment. A newer attempted endpoint failed.","Complete §402(x)(1)(A)–(B) read to preserve the context of (A)(iv), incorporated by §405(j)(2). Only the incorporated fleeing category is used here. Benefit nonpayment, good-cause exceptions, confinement, and other §402 eligibility rules are not transposed to payee selection. \nuscode.house.gov"],["R075-P1-S006","OLRC, 42 USC §423, Disability insurance benefit payments. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-118/t42/s423/","Displayed compilation through Public Law 119-120, October 7, 2026; newer attempted endpoint failed.","§423(d)(1)–(6) read completely, solely to identify the incorporated disability definition used in specified parent-related exceptions and the boundary between disability entitlement and capability. Nested disability-evaluation regimes were not investigated; no disability test or determination is supplied here. \nuscode.house.gov\n+1"],["R075-P1-S014","OFR/GPO, SSA, 20 CFR Part 402, particularly current §402.160(b)(1) concerning Social Security Rulings. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-402","Current eCFR; Part 402 source line cites 89 FR 102711, December 18, 2024.","Complete material §402.160(b) read, with adjacent publication context, only to establish the stated agency status of SSRs. The historical reorganization instrument was not independently authenticated. An attempted older locator, §402.35, now addresses a different subject. No FOIA procedure, request, or records access was pursued. \necfr.gov\n+1"],["R075-P1-S027","OLRC, Currency and Updating and 119th Congress, second-session Classification Table. https://uscode.house.gov/currency.html; https://uscode.house.gov/classification/tbl119cd_2nd.html","Currency page: Public Law 119-134, October 20, 2026. Classification table prepared October 20, 2026. Editorial finding aids, not enacted law.","Currency page and selected §405 classification entries read. The 2026 §405 entry led to the enacted S026 instrument. These pages do not certify the absence of later enactments, delayed effective provisions, or judicial developments. \nUS Code\n+1"]]},{"headers":["Source ID","Issuer, title, complete literal HTTPS URL","Displayed instruction version/status","Exact read extent and limits"],"index":1,"links":[{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502001?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502001"},{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502001?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"01/26/2017"},{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502020?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502020"},{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502020?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"06/10/2022"},{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502139?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502139"},{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502139?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"04/15/2016"},{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503100?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503100"},{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503100?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"08/14/2023"},{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503110?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503110"},{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503110?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"12/30/2021"},{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503120?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503120"},{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503120?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"08/14/2023"},{"href":"https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/oasi/33/SSR91-05-oasi-33.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/oasi/33/SSR91-05-oasi-33.html"},{"href":"https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/oasi/33/SSR91-05-oasi-33.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"ssa.gov\n+1"}],"row_links":[[],[{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502001?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502001"},{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502001?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"01/26/2017"}],[{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502020?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502020"},{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502020?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"06/10/2022"}],[{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502139?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502139"},{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502139?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"04/15/2016"}],[{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503100?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503100"},{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503100?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"08/14/2023"}],[{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503110?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503110"},{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503110?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"12/30/2021"}],[{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503120?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503120"},{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503120?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"08/14/2023"}],[{"href":"https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/oasi/33/SSR91-05-oasi-33.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/oasi/33/SSR91-05-oasi-33.html"},{"href":"https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/oasi/33/SSR91-05-oasi-33.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"ssa.gov\n+1"}]],"rows":[["Source ID","Issuer, title, complete literal HTTPS URL","Displayed instruction version/status","Exact read extent and limits"],["R075-P1-S007","SSA POMS, GN 00502.001—Capability Determination and Representative Payee Payment Overview. https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502001","TN 56 (07-20); revision January 26, 2017; batch October 16, 2026. Agency operating instructions, not enacted statutory or regulatory text.","Complete A–D read. Presumption, evidence, participation, and direct-payment instructions used within their stated context. A batch date is not a new effective date. \n01/26/2017"],["R075-P1-S008","SSA POMS, GN 00502.020—Determining Capability—Adult Beneficiaries. https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502020","TN 78 (03-23); revision June 10, 2022; batch June 8, 2026. Agency instructions.","Complete A–C read. Used for management versus directing management, evidence, and the prohibition on treating diagnosis alone as incapability. No medical or functional assessment performed. \n06/10/2022"],["R075-P1-S009","SSA POMS, GN 00502.139—Additional Development/Considerations When Guardian Involved. https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502139","TN 84 (05-23); revision April 15, 2016; batch July 17, 2026. Agency instructions.","Complete A–C, including guardian, statutory guardian, custody, voluntary conservator, and power-of-attorney discussions. State-law digests and Treasury-payment cross-references not read. The instructions are not a complete statement of State guardianship or agency law. \n04/15/2016"],["R075-P1-S010","SSA POMS, GN 00503.100—Advance Notice. https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503100","TN 14 (03-25); revision August 14, 2023; batch September 8, 2026. Agency instructions.","Complete A–F, including recipient exceptions, agency processing, and the published example, read. No referenced notice form was filled or created. Foreign-residence and minor-recipient instructions are identified as additional instruction-level qualifications, not silently substituted for statutory text. \n08/14/2023"],["R075-P1-S011","SSA POMS, GN 00503.110—Appeal Rights. https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503110","TN 10 (08-23); revision December 30, 2021; batch June 8, 2026. Agency instructions.","Complete A–C read. Includes both appealable categories and listed non-initial determinations; no assumption that every payee-related disagreement follows the same route. \n12/30/2021"],["R075-P1-S012","SSA POMS, GN 00503.120—Response Received to Advance Notice. https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503120","TN 14 (03-25); revision August 14, 2023; batch September 8, 2026. Agency instructions.","Complete A–F read. Formal reconsideration versus informal protest, pre-effectuation review, revised selections, and limited file-review instructions examined. Internal systems and forms were neither accessed nor used. \n08/14/2023"],["R075-P1-S013","SSA, SSR 91-5p—Titles II and XVI: Mental Incapacity and Good Cause for Missing the Deadline to Request Review. https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/oasi/33/SSR91-05-oasi-33.html","Published policy-interpretation ruling; stated effective/publication date July 1, 1991. Current public SSA page examined; no exhaustive rescission or judicial-history audit claimed.","Complete ruling body, including conditions, adjudicator duties, result limits, effective statement, and the separate circuit-specific cross-reference, read. The cross-referenced acquiescence ruling and judicial authorities were not investigated. Older reopening-period discussion is not adopted as a complete current reopening regime. \nssa.gov\n+1"]]},{"headers":["Source ID","Issuer/title and complete literal HTTPS URL","Publication/enactment and status","Actual read bounds; effective/application provisions"],"index":2,"links":[{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ165/html/PLAW-115publ165.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ165/html/PLAW-115publ165.htm"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ165/html/PLAW-115publ165.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"govinfo.gov\n+3"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-108publ203/html/PLAW-108publ203.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-108publ203/html/PLAW-108publ203.htm"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-108publ203/html/PLAW-108publ203.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"govinfo.gov\n+3"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-104publ121/html/PLAW-104publ121.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-104publ121/html/PLAW-104publ121.htm"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-104publ121/html/PLAW-104publ121.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"govinfo.gov"},{"href":"https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1982/7/14/30466-30477.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1982/7/14/30466-30477.pdf"},{"href":"https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1982/7/14/30466-30477.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"archives.federalregister.gov\n+1"},{"href":"https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1989/8/28/35482-35490.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1989/8/28/35482-35490.pdf"},{"href":"https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1989/8/28/35482-35490.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"archives.federalregister.gov\n+1"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2004-10-07/pdf/04-22331.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2004-10-07/pdf/04-22331.pdf"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2004-10-07/pdf/04-22331.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"govinfo.gov\n+3"},{"href":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2006/10/18/E6-17320/representative-payment-policies-and-administrative-procedure-for-imposing-penalties-for-false-or?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2006/10/18/E6-17320/representative-payment-policies-and-administrative-procedure-for-imposing-penalties-for-false-or"},{"href":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2006/10/18/E6-17320/representative-payment-policies-and-administrative-procedure-for-imposing-penalties-for-false-or?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"federalregister.gov\n+1"},{"href":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/11/10/E8-26680/representative-payment-under-titles-ii-viii-and-xvi-of-the-social-security-act?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/11/10/E8-26680/representative-payment-under-titles-ii-viii-and-xvi-of-the-social-security-act"},{"href":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/11/10/E8-26680/representative-payment-under-titles-ii-viii-and-xvi-of-the-social-security-act?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"federalregister.gov\n+1"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-02-15/pdf/2019-02483.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-02-15/pdf/2019-02483.pdf"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-02-15/pdf/2019-02483.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"govinfo.gov\n+1"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-10-25/pdf/2019-23235.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-10-25/pdf/2019-23235.pdf"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-10-25/pdf/2019-23235.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"govinfo.gov"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-02-11/pdf/2020-02409.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-02-11/pdf/2020-02409.pdf"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-02-11/pdf/2020-02409.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"govinfo.gov\n+1"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ77/html/PLAW-119publ77.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ77/html/PLAW-119publ77.htm"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ77/html/PLAW-119publ77.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"govinfo.gov"},{"href":"https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/47-FR-32936","text":"https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/47-FR-32936"}],"row_links":[[],[{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ165/html/PLAW-115publ165.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ165/html/PLAW-115publ165.htm"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ165/html/PLAW-115publ165.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"govinfo.gov\n+3"}],[{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-108publ203/html/PLAW-108publ203.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"https://www.govinfo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ID","Issuer/title and complete literal HTTPS URL","Publication/enactment and status","Actual read bounds; effective/application provisions"],["R075-P1-S015","Congress/GPO, Public Law 115-165, Strengthening Protections for Social Security Beneficiaries Act of 2018. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ165/html/PLAW-115publ165.htm","Enacted April 13, 2018; enacted amendatory text.","Complete selected §102(a), (d); §201(a)–(d); §202(a), (d)–(f); §203(a), (d). Printed 132 Stat. 1260–1261, 1266–1268, 1271–1273; HTML, PDF index N/A. Other Title VIII/XVI amendments and broader oversight provisions not adopted. Detailed application triggers appear in C096–C100 and the measurement register. \ngovinfo.gov\n+3"],["R075-P1-S016","Congress/GPO, Public Law 108-203, Social Security Protection Act of 2004. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-108publ203/html/PLAW-108publ203.htm","Enacted March 2, 2004.","Selected complete §102(a)(1), (a)(3); §103(a), (d); §105(a), (d); §106(a) read for the reporting-notice context. Printed 118 Stat. 497–498, 500–505; HTML, index N/A. Authenticates bonding/licensing change, imprisonment/fleeing screening, and redesignation to current §405(j)(10). Full liability, fees, and overpayment regimes held. \ngovinfo.gov\n+3"],["R075-P1-S017","Congress/GPO, Public Law 104-121, Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-104publ121/html/PLAW-104publ121.htm","Enacted March 29, 1996.","Complete selected §105(a)(2)(A)–(D) and §105(a)(5)(A)–(C), printed 110 Stat. 852–853; HTML, index N/A. Used only for revised disability/DAA payee predicates and their application provision. No separate disability-entitlement transition report. \ngovinfo.gov"],["R075-P1-S018","HHS/SSA, Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind and Disabled; Representative Payment, final rule. https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1982/7/14/30466-30477.pdf","Published and stated effective July 14, 1982. Historical adoption instrument.","Header/dates at printed 30468, PDF index 2; complete selected original §§404.2001, .2010, .2015, .2020, .2021, .2025 at printed 30472–30473, indices 6–7. Not the whole issue slice or preamble. Original four-month language is historical. A correction cited by the current regulation was not successfully authenticated; see S028. \narchives.federalregister.gov\n+1"],["R075-P1-S019","HHS/SSA, Treatment of Old-Age Survivors, and Disability Insurance Payments in the Aid to Families With Dependent Children Program; Direct Payment to Beneficiaries Under Age 18, final rule. https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1989/8/28/35482-35490.pdf","Published and effective August 28, 1989.","Header, relevant explanation, and complete amendment changing §404.2010(b)(6) from four to seven months; printed 35482–35483, indices 0–1. AFDC and fund-use amendments not adopted as findings. \narchives.federalregister.gov\n+1"],["R075-P1-S020","SSA, Representative Payment Under Titles II, VIII, and XVI of the Social Security Act, final rules. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2004-10-07/pdf/04-22331.pdf","Published October 7, 2004; effective November 8, 2004.","Header/dates; selected substantial-harm preamble; complete selected Title II amendatory instructions 2–9, printed 60232–60234, PDF indices 8–10, within a 17-page document printed 60224–60240. Whole preamble and other-title amendments not claimed read. \ngovinfo.gov\n+3"],["R075-P1-S021","SSA/OFR, Representative Payment Policies and Administrative Procedure for Imposing Penalties for False or Misleading Statements or Withholding of Information. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2006/10/18/E6-17320/representative-payment-policies-and-administrative-procedure-for-imposing-penalties-for-false-or","Published October 18, 2006, 71 FR 61403; displayed effective November 17, 2006. Government-hosted XML rendition expressly says it is not the official legal edition.","Complete selected amendatory instruction 4, printed locator 61407, adding the imprisonment restriction and relettering §404.2022, read in XML. Official PDF/HTML attempts failed. Thus the original-publication authentication remains partial; current regulatory wording is independently readable in S002/S003, which are versions of the regulation, not corroborating originals of this rule. \nfederalregister.gov\n+1"],["R075-P1-S022","SSA/OFR, Representative Payment Under Titles II, VIII and XVI of the Social Security Act. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/11/10/E8-26680/representative-payment-under-titles-ii-viii-and-xvi-of-the-social-security-act","Published November 10, 2008, 73 FR 66520; displayed effective December 10, 2008. Unofficial XML rendition of a final rule.","Complete selected Title II amendatory instruction 2, §404.2024(a)(1), (b), (c), and material explanation; printed locator 66521. Official PDF/HTML attempts failed; no PDF index is claimed. \nfederalregister.gov\n+1"],["R075-P1-S023","SSA, Prohibiting Persons With Certain Criminal Convictions From Serving as Representative Payees, final rule. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-02-15/pdf/2019-02483.pdf","Published February 15, 2019; effective March 18, 2019.","Header/dates and complete Title II amendatory instructions 1–5, principally printed 4325, PDF index 2; document printed 4323–4326, indices 0–3. Other-title amendments and complete preamble not claimed read. \ngovinfo.gov\n+1"],["R075-P1-S024","SSA, same subject, correcting amendment. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-10-25/pdf/2019-23235.pdf","Published/effective October 25, 2019; stated applicable beginning March 18, 2019.","Complete material explanation and Title II instructions 1–3, printed 57319–57320, indices 0–1. Corrects the individual-versus-organization scope of §§404.2024(a)(10) and .2026. \ngovinfo.gov"],["R075-P1-S025","SSA, Advance Designation of Representative Payees, final rule. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-02-11/pdf/2020-02409.pdf","Published February 11, 2020; effective February 25, 2020.","Header/dates, material effective-date explanation, complete Title II instructions 1–4, printed 7664–7665, indices 3–4, within document printed 7661–7665. Not the entire preamble or parallel Title VIII/XVI regime. \ngovinfo.gov\n+1"],["R075-P1-S026","Congress/GPO, Public Law 119-77, Ending Improper Payments to Deceased People Act. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ77/html/PLAW-119publ77.htm","Enacted February 10, 2026; §2(c) makes amendments effective December 27, 2026, future relative to this check.","Complete enacted §§1–2 read, printed 140 Stat. 745–746, HTML index N/A. It amends §405(r), not the selected representative-payee clauses in §405(j). Used only to distinguish a displayed 2026 amendment from an operative amendment to this component. \ngovinfo.gov"],["R075-P1-S028","OFR, attempted 47 FR 32936, July 30, 1982 correction. https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/47-FR-32936","Citation appears in current §404.2021’s source history; original body not obtained.","Failed access; no substantive proposition rests on the correction’s presumed contents. The 1982 original’s printed/OCR wording and current “authorized social agency” wording differ; the current text is established by S002/S003, but this correction link in the history remains unverified."]]},{"headers":["Section actually present","Current heading","Read extent"],"index":3,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Section actually present","Current heading","Read extent"],["404.2001","Introduction","Complete (a), (b)(1)–(3)"],["404.2010","When payment will be made to a representative payee","Complete (a), (b)(1)–(6)"],["404.2011","What happens to your monthly benefits while we are finding a suitable representative payee for you?","Complete (a)–(c), both examples, source note"],["404.2015","Information considered in determining whether to make representative payments","Complete (a)–(c), including medical-evidence example"],["404.2018","Advance designation of representative payees","Complete (a)–(f)"],["404.2020","Information considered in selecting a representative payee","Complete introductory language and (a)–(g)"],["404.2021","What is our order of preference in selecting a representative payee for you?","Complete introduction and all three category lists"],["404.2022","Who may not serve as a representative payee?","Complete (a)–(f), nested exceptions, both creditor examples"],["404.2024","How do we investigate a representative payee applicant?","Complete (a)(1)–(10), (b), (c)"],["404.2025","What information must a representative payee report to us?","Complete section and source note"]]},{"headers":["Claim ID","Supported atomic finding","Exact authority and scope"],"index":4,"links":[{"href":"https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s405/?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"uscode.house.gov"},{"href":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"ecfr.gov"},{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502001?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"01/26/2017\n+1"},{"href":"https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s405/?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"uscode.house.gov\n+1"}],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[{"href":"https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s405/?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"uscode.house.gov"}],[],[],[],[{"href":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"ecfr.gov"}],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[{"href":"https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502001?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"01/26/2017\n+1"}],[{"href":"https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s405/?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"uscode.house.gov\n+1"}]],"rows":[["Claim ID","Supported atomic finding","Exact authority and scope"],["R075-P1-C001","The access date is October 27, 2026 Los Angeles time. The most recent successful main statutory display was through October 20, and the refreshed main eCFR display through October 26. These are different kinds of dates.","Research clock; S001, S002, S027. Neither date is an exhaustive later-law certification."],["R075-P1-C002","The selected regulatory range contains the ten sections listed in §2 above. Each was read completely.","S002, §§404.2001–404.2025 as actually organized."],["R075-P1-C003","The main statutory read is clause-specific, not a whole-§405(j) investigation. The §402 and §423 alternatives have an earlier displayed cutoff than S001.","S001, S005, S006 and the express read-bound statement above."],["R075-P1-C004","Enacted statutory text, regulations, editorial notes, POMS instructions, SSRs, and historical amendatory instruments have different legal functions. An eCFR display is an unofficial publication of regulatory text; a POMS batch date does not amend the statute or regulation.","S001–S002, S007–S014, S021–S022; publication/status statements on the sources."],["R075-P1-C005","Part 404 is the Title II old-age, survivors, and disability insurance framework. References to Title VIII or XVI in screening, prior misuse, designation, or own-payee restrictions do not import the full SSI or other program regime.","S002, Part 404/Subpart U; S001, §405(j)(1)(C), (2)(B)–(C)."],["R075-P1-C006","A representative payee under the selected regulation is a person or organization selected by SSA to receive benefits on the beneficiary’s behalf. The term does not establish a separate person’s benefit eligibility or a general power over assets.","S002, §404.2001(a); S001, §405(j)(1)(A). \nuscode.house.gov"],["R075-P1-C007","The Commissioner may certify direct or representative payment when the individual’s interests would be served, regardless of legal competency or incompetency, subject to the statutory payee requirements.","S001, §405(j)(1)(A), first sentence, incorporating (2). This does not mean legal status is irrelevant to the regulations’ specific rules."],["R075-P1-C008","SSA’s regulatory policy recognizes each beneficiary’s right to manage their benefits. Representative payment generally concerns inability to manage or direct management of benefit payments in the beneficiary’s interest.","S002, §404.2001(a), (b)(1)–(2). Youth or a physical/mental condition is a possible basis for inquiry, not an automatic conclusion."],["R075-P1-C009","For an adult beneficiary, §404.2010 requires the interest determination plus information of legal incompetence or mental inability to manage, or physical inability to manage or direct management.","S002, §404.2010(a)(1)–(2). No diagnosis, debt, disability label, or old-age label independently supplies these findings."],["R075-P1-C010","If direct payment is already being made, capability is questioned, the beneficiary is at least 18, and the beneficiary has not been adjudged legally incompetent, SSA continues direct payment until it determines capability and selects a payee.","S002, §404.2001(b)(3). This is distinct from the later substantial-harm analysis while locating a suitable payee. \necfr.gov"],["R075-P1-C011","Under 18, representative payment is the general rule, but direct payment is possible where ability to manage is shown. The listed circumstances are examples, not an exhaustive entitlement list.","S002, §404.2010(b), introductory language. The ability condition applies to C012–C017."],["R075-P1-C012","One minor direct-payment example is receipt of disability insurance benefits on the beneficiary’s own earnings record, with the introductory ability requirement.","S002, §404.2010(b)(1)."],["R075-P1-C013","Another example is military service, with the same ability requirement.","S002, §404.2010(b)(2). No military status is supplied."],["R075-P1-C014","Another example requires living alone and self-support, with ability to manage shown.","S002, §404.2010(b)(3)."],["R075-P1-C015","The parent example requires a parent filing for self and/or child and experience handling the parent’s finances, with ability shown.","S002, §404.2010(b)(4). Parenthood alone is insufficient."],["R075-P1-C016","Another example requires ability to use benefits for current needs and absence of an available qualified payee.","S002, §404.2010(b)(5)."],["R075-P1-C017","Another example concerns a beneficiary within seven months of attaining 18 and initially applying for benefits, subject to the introductory ability requirement.","S002, §404.2010(b)(6); historical change authenticated in S019. No birthday calculation follows."],["R075-P1-C018","When SSA learns of a legal-incompetence finding, a certified court determination forms the basis of its representative-payment determination. This is not SSA itself issuing a general court adjudication of incompetence.","S002, §404.2015(a)."],["R075-P1-C019","Medical evidence is used when available. The regulatory example involves a recent examination, present condition, nature of illness, recovery prospects, and an opinion about managing or directing management.","S002, §404.2015(b), complete example. It supplies no mandatory diagnosis, numerical score, or universal examination interval."],["R075-P1-C020","SSA also considers helpful statements from relatives, friends, and others positioned to know and observe the beneficiary.","S002, §404.2015(c). This is an evidence category, not authority to solicit actual records in this pass."],["R075-P1-C021","POMS instructs staff to presume a legally competent adult capable absent indicators requiring development; capability decisions require supporting evidence and reasoning, and payee appointment is not for convenience.","S007, GN 00502.001, complete relevant policy/procedure. Instruction-level clarification, not a substitute for §§404.2001–.2015."],["R075-P1-C022","POMS expressly distinguishes diagnosis from capability and recognizes that a beneficiary able to direct others’ management can be capable even if unable to perform every management task personally.","S008, GN 00502.020(A)–(C). Medical, lay, and legal evidence remain context-specific; no personal assessment is made. \n01/26/2017\n+1"],["R075-P1-C023","The special statutory DAA provision requires benefits based on the individual’s disability, an SSA-determined alcoholism or drug-addiction condition, incapability of managing those benefits, and an interest determination. Disability-based benefits are defined in (j)(8) as specified own-disability insurance, child’s, widow’s, or widower’s benefits.","S001, §405(j)(1)(B), (8). A substance-use condition alone is insufficient. \nuscode.house.gov\n+1"]]},{"headers":["Claim ID","Supported atomic finding","Exact authority and scope"],"index":5,"links":[{"href":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"ecfr.gov"}],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[{"href":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"ecfr.gov"}]],"rows":[["Claim ID","Supported atomic finding","Exact authority and scope"],["R075-P1-C024","While finding a suitable payee, current monthly benefits are paid directly unless SSA determines direct payment would cause substantial harm.","S002, §404.2011(a), subject to its full qualifications and the §404.2001(b)(3) cross-reference."],["R075-P1-C025","The regulation creates a rebuttable substantial-harm presumption for specified disability-payment/DAA circumstances, legal incompetence, or age under 15. It expressly permits evidence that direct payment would not cause substantial harm.","S002, §404.2011(a)(1). This is a particular interim-payment rule, not a general redefinition of legal competence."],["R075-P1-C026","Outside those categories, substantial harm requires both expected serious physical or mental injury from direct receipt and a finding that the possible injury outweighs the effect of having no income for basic needs.","S002, §404.2011(a)(2)(i)–(ii). Unwise spending alone does not satisfy this stated test."],["R075-P1-C027","Ordinarily, substantial-harm deferral/suspension while finding a payee may last no more than one month. The statutory limit does not apply when, as of SSA’s determination, the beneficiary is legally incompetent, under 15, or described in §405(j)(1)(B).","S001, §405(j)(2)(D)(i)–(ii); S002, §404.2011(b). The regulation preserves rebuttal and cross-references existing-direct-payment protection."],["R075-P1-C028","Delayed or suspended benefits can be paid to the beneficiary or payee as a single sum or over a period/in installments when SSA determines that treatment serves the beneficiary’s interests.","S001, §405(j)(2)(D)(iii); S002, §404.2011(c). No amount, installment schedule, or actual payment right is calculated."],["R075-P1-C029","The regulation’s examples distinguish expected serious injury from concern that money may be used unwisely. Its retirement-benefit example does not make a substance-use condition a universal exception to the one-month limit.","S002, §404.2011, both examples; S001, §405(j)(1)(B), (2)(D), (8). Published examples were read without adopting or recreating their parties or facts. \necfr.gov"]]},{"headers":["Claim ID","Supported atomic finding","Exact authority and scope"],"index":6,"links":[{"href":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"ecfr.gov"},{"href":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"ecfr.gov\n+2"}],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[{"href":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"ecfr.gov"}],[],[],[],[],[],[],[{"href":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"ecfr.gov\n+2"}]],"rows":[["Claim ID","Supported atomic finding","Exact authority and scope"],["R075-P1-C030","Statutory advance designation is available to an applicant or entitled individual who has attained 18 or is an emancipated minor. The regulation additionally bars designation when SSA has specified information of legal incompetence, mental incapability, or physical inability to manage/direct benefits.","S001, §405(j)(1)(C)(i); S002, §404.2018(a). No actual eligibility to designate is established."],["R075-P1-C031","The regulation identifies required designation information—designee name, telephone number, and priority order if more than one—and makes relationship information optional. Changes and withdrawal require continued qualification under paragraph (a).","S002, §404.2018(b)–(c). These are descriptions of legal requirements only; no fields collecting that information are included in the worksheet."],["R075-P1-C032","After SSA decides representative payment is needed, it considers designees in the specified order and selects the first who is willing and able, satisfies §405(j)(2), and is not displaced for other good cause under §§404.2020–.2021.","S001, §405(j)(1)(C)(i)(I)–(II); S002, §404.2018(d)(1). Designation does not eliminate investigation or disqualification rules."],["R075-P1-C033","An organization cannot be advance-designated under these provisions. If no designee qualifies, SSA returns to its preference guide and other Subpart U requirements; an organization may still qualify through ordinary selection.","S001, §405(j)(1)(C)(ii); S002, §§404.2018(d)(2), (f), .2001(a), .2021."],["R075-P1-C034","When a later change of payee is needed, SSA considers other designees made when the beneficiary was eligible to designate.","S002, §404.2018(e). This does not establish that a current designation exists or remains factually usable."],["R075-P1-C035","Advance designation identifies a possible future SSA payee; it does not itself establish appointment, present control, guardianship, a power of attorney, records access, or debt-settlement authority.","Bounded reading of S001, §405(j)(1)(C), and S002, §404.2018. Other sources of authority remain unexamined. \necfr.gov"],["R075-P1-C036","SSA selects for the beneficiary’s interests, considering relationship, interest shown, existing legal authority, custody, ability to know/look after needs, criminal history, and advance designation.","S002, §404.2020(a)–(g). No single label establishes suitability."],["R075-P1-C037","The regulatory preference categories are flexible guides. Qualified advance designees are considered first, subject to willingness, ability, restrictions, and best interests.","S002, §404.2021 introductory language; §404.2018(d)."],["R075-P1-C038","Ordinary adult preferences are: guardian/spouse/relative with custody or strong concern; friend with custody or strong concern; public/nonprofit agency or institution with custody; State-licensed for-profit private institution with custody; then other qualified, able, willing persons.","S002, §404.2021(a)(1)–(5), excluding the special paragraph (b) category. The ordering is not an appointment entitlement."],["R075-P1-C039","Minor preferences distinguish custodial parent/guardian; noncustodial parent contributing and concerned; noncustodial parent not contributing but concerned; custodial relative/stepparent; contributing concerned noncustodial relative; concerned noncustodial relative/close friend; and authorized social agency/custodial institution.","S002, §404.2021(c)(1)–(7). Contribution, custody, relationship, and concern are different predicates."],["R075-P1-C040","For the statutory §405(j)(1)(B) category, preference is for a certified community nonprofit, specified government mission agency, State/local fiduciary agency, or appropriate nonfederal designee, unless SSA determines a family member would be appropriate.","S001, §405(j)(2)(C)(v). The regulation’s paragraph (b) lists a family member after its agency categories; neither text makes a category alone sufficient."],["R075-P1-C041","A statutory certified community-based nonprofit must satisfy annual certification requirements for bonding and licensing in each State where it serves if licensing is available; the certification includes any independent audit performed since the previous certification.","S001, §405(j)(10), incorporated by (2)(C)(v). The clause does not require inventing an audit that was never performed."],["R075-P1-C042","The current regulation’s preferred nonprofit phrase, “licensed by the State, or bonded,” does not reproduce the statute’s bonding-and-available-licensing requirement. The 2004 enacted change was authenticated.","S002, §404.2021(b)(1); S001, §405(j)(10); S016, §102(a)(1), (3), §105(a). No silent harmonization or actual organizational qualification is made. \necfr.gov\n+2"]]},{"headers":["Claim ID","Supported atomic finding","Exact authority and scope"],"index":7,"links":[{"href":"https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s405/?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"uscode.house.gov\n+1"}],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[{"href":"https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s405/?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"uscode.house.gov\n+1"}]],"rows":[["Claim ID","Supported atomic finding","Exact authority and scope"],["R075-P1-C043","A conviction under the identified Social Security criminal provisions is a disqualification; the selected clauses state no exception to that particular bar.","S001, §405(j)(2)(B)(i)(III), (C)(i)(I); S002, §404.2022(a): Act §§208, 811, 1632 / 42 USC §§408, 1011, 1383a. Offense elements and actual convictions are held."],["R075-P1-C044","Another offense resulting in imprisonment for more than one year is restricted. The statute permits SSA to determine certification appropriate notwithstanding the conviction; the regulation requires that the conviction’s nature pose no risk and that the exception serve the beneficiary’s best interests.","S001, §405(j)(2)(B)(i)(IV), (C)(i)(IV); S002, §404.2022(b). Exactly one year does not satisfy this particular “more than” threshold, though another bar may apply."],["R075-P1-C045","A person whose own Title II, VIII, or XVI benefits are paid through a payee is restricted. The statute expressly specifies overlap with the period in which that person would serve as another’s payee.","S001, §405(j)(2)(C)(i)(VII); S002, §404.2022(c). This is not a lifetime bar based on any historical use of a payee."],["R075-P1-C046","Prior misuse is restricted. The regulatory exception requires all of: direct payment not in the beneficiary’s best interests; no suitable alternative; appointment in best interests; present suitability; and repayment or a repayment plan. Performance must be evaluated at least every three months until SSA is satisfied there is no risk to the beneficiary’s best interests.","S002, §404.2022(d)(1)–(5); S001, §405(j)(2)(C)(i)(II), (ii). A plan is not a finding that repayment occurred."],["R075-P1-C047","A creditor is one providing goods or services for consideration. Regulatory exceptions require no risk and no substantial financial conflict, plus a listed category: same-household relative; guardian/legal representative; licensed/certified care facility; qualified fee-authorized organization; facility administrator/owner/employee where the beneficiary lives and no alternative can be located; or another individual supported by a written determination.","S002, §404.2022(e)(1)–(6), both examples. The fee-authorized category retains its unexamined §404.2040a predicate; no fee entitlement is inferred."],["R075-P1-C048","The statute additionally states good-faith alternative-payee efforts in its facility/person clause. Its residual individual-creditor exception requires no risk, no substantial conflict, and no other more suitable payee.","S001, §405(j)(2)(C)(iii)(IV)–(V), (iv). The exact reach of the facility wording beyond its clause is not judicially resolved here."],["R075-P1-C049","The statute bars the category incorporated from §402(x)(1)(A)(iv): fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody/confinement after conviction, for the specified felony/attempt category; where the jurisdiction does not define felony, the clause uses punishment by death or imprisonment exceeding one year, regardless of actual sentence.","S001, §405(j)(2)(B)(i)(V), (C)(i)(V); S005, §402(x)(1)(A)(iv), complete adjacent (A)–(B) read. The regulation’s list omits this express statutory category. A warrant, accusation, probation issue, or label alone is not classified here."],["R075-P1-C050","The listed-felony restriction covers conviction, not subsequently exonerated, under Federal or State law for the listed categories, including attempt or conspiracy: trafficking; false imprisonment; kidnapping; rape/sexual assault; first-degree homicide; robbery; government-assistance fraud; fraud by scheme; government-fund/property theft; abuse/neglect; forgery; identity theft/fraud.","S001, §405(j)(2)(B)(i)(VII), (iv), (C)(i)(VI); S002, §404.2022(f). The statute authorizes additional felony categories by regulation. The selected regulation does not repeat the exoneration phrase."],["R075-P1-C051","Listed exceptions concern custodial parent of a minor; custodial spouse; custodial parent of a beneficiary whose incorporated disability began before 22; custodial court-appointed guardian; custodial grandparent of a minor; parent previously payee for a minor now 18 and continuing eligible; or a presidential/gubernatorial pardon. The statute removes the specified listed-felony inquiry and allows a best-interest exemption. The regulation says conviction alone does not bar these categories, while retaining criminal-history and other-disqualification review.","S001, §405(j)(2)(C)(vi)(I)–(II); S002, §404.2022(f)(1)–(3); S006, §423(d). None is automatic appointment or exemption from every screening rule."],["R075-P1-C052","The listed Title 18 references identify offense categories; this pass does not determine offense elements, equivalence of a particular State offense, exoneration, pardon effect beyond the stated exception, or constitutional/judicial treatment.","S001, §405(j)(2)(B)(iv)(I)–(XII). Next inquiry would be a separately scoped public-law examination of the precise incorporated category, not a record search. \nuscode.house.gov\n+1"]]},{"headers":["Claim ID","Supported atomic finding","Exact authority and scope"],"index":8,"links":[{"href":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"ecfr.gov\n+2"}],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[{"href":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"ecfr.gov\n+2"}]],"rows":[["Claim ID","Supported atomic finding","Exact authority and scope"],["R075-P1-C053","Before certification to a payee, SSA must investigate, include a face-to-face interview to the extent practicable, and have adequate evidence that certification serves the beneficiary’s interests.","S001, §405(j)(2)(A)(i)–(ii). These are SSA duties, not findings that an investigation occurred."],["R075-P1-C054","The regulation’s investigation includes interview; documented identity with the stated recent-benefit-application exception; SSN/EIN verification; specified Social Security convictions; prior misuse revocation; agency-record checks of employment/direct benefits; verification of concern; relationship/care information; creditor status; and an individual applicant’s criminal background check.","S002, §404.2024(a)(1)–(10). No screening, identity entry, or record access occurred in this pass."],["R075-P1-C055","Statutory investigation also expressly addresses other offenses producing imprisonment over one year, the incorporated fleeing category, prior misuse across the identified titles, and nonexonerated listed felonies. SSA may conduct a background check and may disqualify an applicant refusing permission; it may revoke certification for a serving individual covered by the stated January 1, 2019 provision who refuses permission.","S001, §405(j)(2)(B)(i), (v). The statutory authority is not authorization for this researcher to run a check."],["R075-P1-C056","After a face-to-face interview, another is not required if the applicant remains qualified and currently serves, unless SSA determines another necessary based on performance and reporting compliance. Undue hardship can make an interview impracticable; “great distance” is an example without a mileage threshold.","S002, §404.2024(b)–(c). Investigation itself is not thereby waived."],["R075-P1-C057","The statute requires an agency centralized file, periodically updated, including specified misuse revocations/terminations on or after January 1, 1991 and specified Social Security convictions.","S001, §405(j)(2)(B)(ii). This is an internal administrative requirement, not a public roster or permission to search one."],["R075-P1-C058","The statute’s law-enforcement disclosure clause requires an officer’s written request, identification sufficient to establish the person, and notifications about the incorporated fleeing category, necessity to duties, and location/apprehension duties; it preserves the named tax/confidentiality exceptions.","S001, §405(j)(2)(B)(iii), including 26 USC §6103 and 42 USC §1306(c) exceptions. Those privacy regimes are not completed here; no request was made."],["R075-P1-C059","Current §404.2026 says SSA conducts a criminal background check on an appointed individual at least once every five years. The 2018 periodic-review mandate expressly excepts individuals granted the specified statutory exemption.","S002, §404.2026; S015, §202(f); S024. The difference in expressed scope is retained; organizational monitoring is not inferred from this rule."],["R075-P1-C060","Under §404.2025, SSA may request information about continuing relationship, care responsibility, and benefit use at any time after selection. Failure within a reasonable period may stop payments to that payee, unless SSA accepts the reason and subsequently receives the information. SSA then considers direct payment under §404.2011 while seeking a new payee.","S002, §404.2025. This is not automatic termination of underlying entitlement or automatic direct-payment restoration."],["R075-P1-C061","The statutory annual-accountability default has State-institution, specified Federal-institution, and specified family-payee exceptions. Family exceptions distinguish same-household minor parent/guardian, same-household parent of an incorporated disabled beneficiary, and spouse. SSA determines exception eligibility; suspected misuse permits a report at any time despite those exceptions.","S001, §405(j)(3)(A)–(E); S015, §102(a), (d). This narrow read prevents converting §404.2025 into a universal annual-report claim."],["R075-P1-C062","For failure to submit a report required under §405(j)(3)(A) or (E), the statute permits an in-person payment-receipt requirement only after notice to both the payee and the entitled individual.","S001, §405(j)(3)(F). This separate response is not identical to §404.2025’s stated consequence."],["R075-P1-C063","If SSA or a competent court determines misuse under the specified titles, §405(j)(1)(A) directs prompt revocation of certification to that payee and certification to another payee or direct payment when in the individual’s interest.","S001, §405(j)(1)(A), second sentence; misuse definition in (j)(9). Full removal, recovery, restitution, and reissuance consequences remain held."],["R075-P1-C064","Under §404.2055, SSA makes direct payment when the beneficiary shows mental and physical ability to manage or direct management. Listed supporting evidence includes a physician/medical-officer statement, a certified rights-restoration order where previously adjudged incompetent, or other evidence establishing ability.","S002, §404.2055(a)–(c). A request, diagnosis change, or unsupported statement does not itself establish the required showing."],["R075-P1-C065","Agency instructions recognize that appointment of a guardian/conservator does not necessarily establish legal incompetence, and that SSA need not appoint the guardian as payee. A later-appointed guardian is selected only if the guardian can better serve the beneficiary’s interests.","S009, GN 00502.139(A)(1), (B)(1)–(2); S002, §§404.2001(b)(2), .2020. State-law effects remain held."],["R075-P1-C066","A power-of-attorney or other representative label is not itself SSA payee appointment. The POMS requires separate payee application/capability consideration for that role; the selected public texts do not establish authority over other assets or debts.","S009, GN 00502.139(A)(6), (B)(5); S002, §§404.2001, .2020, .2024. Full Treasury and State agency-law rules are not adopted."],["R075-P1-C067","The POMS contains an unusual voluntary-conservator route where no incapability finding has been made: beneficiary request, proof of court appointment, and payee application; contrary best-interest evidence requires direct payment or further development.","S009, GN 00502.139(A)(5), (B)(4). Its “without further payee development” phrase is not treated here as a waiver of statutory §405(j)(2) requirements; the extent of that instruction requires clarification before application. \necfr.gov\n+2"]]},{"headers":["Claim ID","Supported atomic finding","Exact authority and scope"],"index":9,"links":[{"href":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"ecfr.gov\n+6"}],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[{"href":"https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-20/chapter-III/part-404/subpart-U?utm_source=chatgpt.com","text":"ecfr.gov\n+6"}]],"rows":[["Claim ID","Supported atomic finding","Exact authority and scope"],["R075-P1-C068","Written advance notice precedes certification/actual appointment. Statute and regulation route it to the beneficiary except the stated categories—under 15, unemancipated minor under 18, or legally incompetent—where it goes to the legal guardian or legal representative.","S001, §405(j)(2)(E)(ii); S002, §404.2030(a). The categories are alternatives; no actual recipient is identified."],["R075-P1-C069","Notice must use understandable language, identify the selected payee, explain rights to challenge the need for a payee and the particular selection, and explain evidence review and submission of additional evidence.","S001, §405(j)(2)(E)(iii); S002, §404.2030(a)(1)–(5). This is not a completed notice or proof of service."],["R075-P1-C070","If advance notice was mailed and a protest or appeal is made within ten days after receipt, SSA delays the action until deciding the protest or appeal. If notice was received and signed at the local field office, the regulation says the decision is effective immediately.","S002, §404.2030(b)(1)–(2). This is a conditional action-delay rule, not an unconditional stay of all decisions or a promise of continuing direct payment."],["R075-P1-C071","Whether benefits will be paid through a representative payee and who will act as payee are listed initial determinations. The introductory rule requires a preponderance of evidence and reasons/facts for conclusions.","S004, §404.902 introductory text, (o), (q); “preponderance” in §404.901. No evidentiary weighing occurs here."],["R075-P1-C072","Denial of an applicant’s request to become a representative payee is listed as not an initial determination. The regulation allows agency review but excludes Subpart J review for those administrative actions.","S004, §404.903 introductory text, (c). This is distinct from a beneficiary challenging SSA’s choice. It is not a completed constitutional or all-remedies analysis."],["R075-P1-C073","Initial-determination notice generally is written and mailed to the last known address, explains reasons/effect and reconsideration rights, and is binding unless timely reconsidered or revised. The section has additional disability-notice and death-related qualifications not converted into payee-specific rules.","S004, §§404.904–.905. Actual address, mailing, receipt, and decision are absent."],["R075-P1-C074","A dissatisfied beneficiary may request reconsideration; another person must show in writing that the determination may adversely affect that person’s rights.","S004, §404.908(a)–(b), read with §404.903(c). Applicant disappointment alone is not assumed to establish this right."],["R075-P1-C075","Reconsideration requires a written request within 60 days after receipt of the initial-determination notice, or an extended period. An extension request must be written, explain lateness, and satisfy good cause. The rule identifies permitted filing locations, with a ten-year railroad-service condition for the Railroad Retirement Board alternative.","S004, §404.909(a)–(b). This is a legal description, not a filing instruction or calculated deadline."],["R075-P1-C076","For Subpart J, receipt means five days after the date on the notice unless the person shows it was not received within that period.","S004, §404.901. This limited definition is not silently transposed into every notice under every SSA program or into an independently computed §404.2030 deadline."],["R075-P1-C077","Good cause considers preventing circumstances, misleading agency action, misunderstanding arising from legal changes, and physical, mental, educational, or linguistic limitations. Examples include serious illness, family death/illness, accidental record loss, diligent attempts to obtain information, requested explanation, wrong agency information, nonreceipt, good-faith delivery to another agency, and unusual/unavoidable circumstances.","S004, §404.911(a)(1)–(4), (b)(1)–(9). Examples are nonexclusive and require a decision; none is automatic."],["R075-P1-C078","The requested-explanation example specifies 60 days after receiving the explanation for reconsideration/hearing, and 30 days for Appeals Council review/civil suit, after a timely request for explanation.","S004, §404.911(b)(5). These are conditions in a good-cause example, not universal replacement appeal periods."],["R075-P1-C079","SSR 91-5p addresses evidence that mental incapacity prevented timely review and absence of someone legally responsible for prosecuting the claim at the prior action. If its substantive criteria are met, elapsed reopening time does not foreclose good cause; adjudicators consider the stated contemporaneous factors, assist qualifying unrepresented claimants, and resolve reasonable doubt favorably.","S013, Policy Interpretation. This is not an automatic extension based on illness, payee status, or current incapacity, and not a favorable merits determination."],["R075-P1-C080","Ordinary reconsideration is a case review allowing additional evidence, decided by the reviewing official. A separate medical-disability-cessation hearing rule is expressly distinguished.","S004, §§404.907, .913(a)–(b). A payee-capability disagreement is not automatically a disability-cessation proceeding."],["R075-P1-C081","Section 405(j)(2)(E)(i) provides hearing rights to the extent of §405(b) and judicial review of the final decision under §405(g). The latter concerns a final decision after a hearing to which the individual was a party.","S001, §405(j)(2)(E)(i), (b)(1), (g), all identified bodies read. Full exhaustion, judicial filing/counting, remedies, and later case law remain held; no judicial due date is asserted."],["R075-P1-C082","POMS advance-notice instructions distinguish initial/change appointments, continuation after attaining 18, specified resumption after six or more months of nonpayment, and reentitlement. They distinguish beneficiary notice, former-payee final notice, current-payee input, and special guardian/parent recipients.","S010, GN 00503.100(A), (E). Foreign-residence and certain parent/proposed-payee exceptions appear in the instructions; their complete legal foundation is not resolved from the selected statute/regulation."],["R075-P1-C083","POMS appeal instructions identify legally competent adults, certain guardians, emancipated minors, parents subject to termination-of-parental-rights qualifications, persons standing in a parent’s place, authorized representatives, and voluntary conservators. It separately lists non-initial actions, including an applicant’s own nonselection and specified legal-incompetence/minor-need decisions.","S011, GN 00503.110(A)–(B), including exceptions. Those instructions do not eliminate the need to identify the actual decision, legal role, and governing statutory/regulatory review provision."],["R075-P1-C084","POMS distinguishes an informal protest from formal reconsideration. Formal treatment requires a written protest, a beneficiary or authorized acting person, and an initial-determination issue. A dispute received before effectuation is to be resolved before processing the appointment, with review by an uninvolved authorized employee.","S012, GN 00503.120(A)–(D). Direct payment is described only “if possible,” not guaranteed. Revised selection requires renewed advance-notice treatment."],["R075-P1-C085","The instruction’s evidence-review procedure distinguishes eligible reviewing roles and contains a medical-disclosure hazard qualification requiring a separate disclosure decision.","S012, GN 00503.120(E)(3). No actual file, medical evidence, authorization, or records request was accessed or created."],["R075-P1-C086","Neither objecting, requesting review, submitting evidence, nor receiving an extension by itself establishes reversal, appointment of a preferred person, direct-payment restoration, continuing payment, or substantive benefit entitlement.","Bounded consequence of S001, §405(j)(2)(E); S002, §§404.2030, .2055; S004, §§404.909–.913; S013. \necfr.gov\n+6"]]},{"headers":["Claim ID","Supported atomic finding","Exact authority and limit"],"index":10,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Claim ID","Supported atomic finding","Exact authority and limit"],["R075-P1-C087","Investigation, agency files, notification, and review requirements describe agency administration; they are not evidence that any investigation, appointment, notice, objection, or screening occurred.","S001, §405(j)(2); S002, §§404.2024–.2025, .2030. No actual records were supplied."],["R075-P1-C088","Material wording differences include nonprofit “or” versus statutory certification; the omitted fleeing bar; statutory exoneration wording; creditor safeguards; DAA “or” versus “and” within §404.2011; and statutory exceptions to periodic review not expressed in §404.2026.","S001–S002, S015–S016. The detailed difference table below preserves their exact limits rather than announcing a judicial reconciliation."],["R075-P1-C089","The selected appointment/selection provisions do not complete fund use, debt payment, account titling, conservation, fees, misuse recovery, removal, death, overpayment, exemption, tax, or collection law.","S002, structure of Subpart U, particularly downstream §§404.2035–.2065; S001, downstream §405(j) clauses. Pointers below are not findings on those topics."],["R075-P1-C090","The authenticated history is selective. Current compilation labels and source credits cannot establish that all intervening or later enactments, corrections, rulings, or judicial developments were examined.","S001–S028, read limits and failure log."],["R075-P1-C091","The 1982 final rule stated effectiveness July 14, 1982. The 1989 final rule, effective August 28, 1989, changed the near-adult initial-application example from four months to seven months.","S018–S019, date clauses and complete selected amendatory text. Four months is historical, not the current rule."],["R075-P1-C092","The 2004 final rule stated effectiveness November 8, 2004 and supplied the selected substantial-harm, restriction, investigation, reporting, and notice amendments.","S020, dates and Title II instructions 2–9."],["R075-P1-C093","The 2006 and 2008 government-hosted XML bodies state November 17, 2006 and December 10, 2008 effectiveness, respectively, but their official original-publication endpoints were not successfully read.","S021–S022. Those historical authentication claims remain partial, although the current regulatory clauses are readable in S002/S003."],["R075-P1-C094","The 1996 Act replaced the special DAA payee wording and related preference/deferral references. Its selected payee amendments apply to benefit applications filed after the third month following the enactment month.","S017, §105(a)(2), (a)(5)(B). This historical application condition is not a present application deadline."],["R075-P1-C095","The 2004 Act changed nonprofit certification and added imprisonment/fleeing screening. The selected §102 and §103 amendments use the first day of the thirteenth month beginning after enactment as their effective trigger. Section 105 redesignated the nonprofit definition to paragraph (10), with its own stated misuse-related application provision.","S016, §§102(a)(1), (3), 103(a), (d), 105(a), (d). Different provisions’ triggers are not merged."],["R075-P1-C096","The 2018 family-accounting exceptions took effect on enactment.","S015, §102(a), (d). The exception’s substantive predicates still must be established."],["R075-P1-C097","The 2018 advance-designation section states effectiveness two years after enactment, requires regulations within 18 months, and requires notification of designations by January 1, 2020 and annually thereafter.","S015, §201(a)–(d). These distinct legislative duties are not an applicant’s deadline."],["R075-P1-C098","The 2018 listed-felony amendments apply to new appointments on or after January 1, 2019. Prior individual payees were subject to review by January 1, 2024; absent the specified exception, the bar applies on/after SSA’s conviction determination. The transition prioritizes those serving at least 15, then unrelated beneficiaries, then beneficiaries at least 18 who are not the payee’s spouse.","S015, §202(d)–(e). The historical review deadline does not prove any review actually occurred."],["R075-P1-C099","The 2018 Act required periodic-review regulations within one year, with review not less often than every five years, except specified granted exemptions.","S015, §202(f); current §404.2026 in S002."],["R075-P1-C100","The 2018 own-payee bar applies to new appointments on/after January 1, 2019. For prior serving payees whose own benefits were representative-paid as of that date, SSA was directed to terminate service as soon as possible, no later than January 1, 2024.","S015, §203(a), (d). This does not establish an actual termination or appointment history."],["R075-P1-C101","The 2019 final rule became effective March 18, 2019. The October 25 correcting amendment, applicable beginning March 18, expressly narrowed criminal-background-check wording to individuals rather than organizations.","S023–S024, complete selected Title II amendments."],["R075-P1-C102","The advance-designation regulation was published February 11, 2020 and states effectiveness February 25, 2020. That is distinct from the 2018 Act’s two-year effective trigger.","S025, dates and Title II amendments; S015, §201(b). No identical-date assumption is made."],["R075-P1-C103","The accessed 2026 amendment to §405 changes subsection (r), not the selected subsection (j), and is future-effective December 27, 2026.","S026, complete §2(a)–(c). A current code page displaying it does not make it operative on the check date."],["R075-P1-C104","Current §402.160(b)(1) states that SSRs are published under the Commissioner’s authority and bind SSA components. That is different from asserting that POMS is a statute or that an SSR binds courts.","S014, §402.160(b)(1); S013 for the specific ruling. Full later-status and judicial treatment remain unreviewed."],["R075-P1-C105","Failed endpoints establish access limitations only. They do not establish repeal, absence of an edition, bad credentials, a model limit, or authorization to bypass access controls.","Source-read/failure log below; S003, S005–S006, S021–S022, S028."]]},{"headers":["Distinction","Supported rule","What it does not establish","Claim/source links"],"index":11,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Distinction","Supported rule","What it does not establish","Claim/source links"],["Direct payment / representative payment","SSA determines the payment arrangement under the interest, capability, and statutory-selection requirements.","Underlying entitlement, an actual payment, or authority over unrelated property.","C006–C010, C023–C028; S001–S002"],["Capability / legal incompetence","Capability concerns managing or directing benefit payments. A legal-incompetence determination is a separate court-derived category with specific consequences.","That disability, age, illness, debt, or a guardian label alone proves either category.","C009, C018–C022, C065; S002, S007–S009"],["Assistance / appointment","Help with management can coexist with the beneficiary’s ability to direct management. SSA selection is required for representative-payee status.","That a helper, agent, relative, or caregiver becomes payee by providing help.","C006, C022, C036, C066; S002, S008–S009"],["Guardian / SSA-appointed payee","Guardianship/legal authority is a selection factor; SSA may select someone else.","Automatic appointment, automatic legal incompetence, or unrestricted federal-benefit control.","C036, C038, C065–C067; S002, S009"],["Preference / restriction","Preferences are flexible and subordinate to qualifications, statutory bars, exceptions, and best interests.","That a preferred relationship overrides a disqualification.","C037–C051; S001–S002"],["Individual / organization","Both may be ordinary payees; only individuals may be advance-designated. The selected criminal-background-check provisions address individuals.","That all organizational screening/monitoring is absent or that an organization qualifies.","C006, C033, C054–C059; S001–S002, S024"],["Title II / Title XVI","This pass applies Part 404 and Title II clauses. Some statutory screens refer to prior conduct or payments under other titles.","SSI entitlement, SSI overpayment rules, or a complete common procedure across titles.","C005, C045–C046, C055; S001–S002"],["Advance designation / appointment","A valid designee is considered in order, subject to willingness, ability, statutory requirements, and good cause.","Present authority, guaranteed selection, or a power of attorney.","C030–C035; S001–S002"],["Initial selection / later capability review","Selection includes investigation and notice; §404.2055 permits later direct payment upon the required ability showing.","Automatic restoration from a request or from any single label.","C053–C056, C064, C068–C081; S001–S004"],["Beneficiary appeal / applicant nonselection","The beneficiary’s payment/selection determinations are reviewable; an applicant’s own request to become payee is separately classified as non-initial.","A universal appeal right for every disappointed applicant.","C071–C075, C083; S004, S011"],["Ten-day protest condition / sixty-day reconsideration","One concerns delay of a mailed advance action; the other concerns written reconsideration of an initial determination.","A single merged deadline, universal stay, or calculated due date.","C070, C075–C078; S002, S004"],["Appointment / downstream administration","Appointment determines a payment recipient subject to continuing duties.","A debt-payment authorization, settlement power, fee amount, bank-account protection, restitution award, or collection result.","C060–C064, C089; S001–S002"]]},{"headers":["Text difference","Verified texts","Treatment in this pass"],"index":12,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Text difference","Verified texts","Treatment in this pass"],["Nonprofit licensing/bonding","§404.2021(b)(1): State-licensed or bonded. §405(j)(10): annual certification of bonding and licensing where available.","Apply no actual category result. Report the statutory requirement and the older regulatory wording separately. C041–C042."],["Fleeing category","§405(j)(2)(C)(i)(V) expressly incorporates §402(x)(1)(A)(iv); §404.2022 does not enumerate it.","Regulatory list is not treated as exhaustive. Other §402 benefit-payment exceptions are not automatically imported. C049."],["Exoneration","Statutory listed-felony clauses expressly say “not subsequently exonerated”; §404.2022(f) does not repeat that phrase.","No conviction or exoneration determination; retain statutory qualification. C050–C051."],["Creditor safeguards","Statute expressly includes good-faith alternative efforts in its facility/person clause and “no other more suitable” payee for residual individuals.","Do not reduce all creditor exceptions to the regulation’s shorter category labels. Scope of disputed facility language remains held. C047–C048."],["DAA conjunction and predicates","§404.2011(a)(1) says drug addiction or alcoholism; paragraph (b) says drug addiction and alcoholism. §405(j)(1)(B) uses alternatives plus incapability and interest findings.","Preserve exact wording; do not infer that any substance-use label permits indefinite withholding. C023–C029."],["Periodic screening exception","§404.2026 broadly states individual checks at least every five years; 2018 §202(f) excludes specified granted exemptions.","No claim that every individual must undergo the identical statutory review regardless of exemption. C059, C099."],["Guardian/conservator instruction","POMS voluntary-conservator procedure says appointment “without further payee development” after specified steps; §405(j)(2) requires statutory investigation.","Do not read the instruction as erasing statutory requirements. Exact intended development scope remains unresolved. C067."],["Notice instruction exceptions","POMS adds foreign-residence and particular proposed-payee/parent/guardian exceptions; statute/regulation state the identified advance-notice recipient categories.","Record the instruction-level rules and hold their complete legal reconciliation, including unusual emancipation/under-15 edges. C068, C082–C083."],["Ordinary direct-payment instructions / interim rule","POMS contains categorical ordinary direct-payment instructions; §404.2011 expressly permits rebuttal of specified interim substantial-harm presumptions.","Keep the procedural settings separate. Do not erase the interim rebuttal or announce a general direct-payment entitlement. C021, C025–C027."],["1982 original/correction","Original selected text contains wording different from current “authorized social agency”; the cited correction body was unavailable.","Current wording is established; precise correction history remains incomplete. C090–C091, C105; S028."]]},{"headers":["Measurement ID","Quantity, boundary, actor/object","Trigger, cumulative conditions, exceptions, and counting limit","Exact authority / claim"],"index":13,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Measurement ID","Quantity, boundary, actor/object","Trigger, cumulative conditions, exceptions, and counting limit","Exact authority / claim"],["R075-P1-M001","18 years or older, inclusive; beneficiary","Adult representative-payment rule requires the stated interest/information findings. Existing-direct-payment protection also requires no legal-incompetence adjudication.","§404.2010(a); §404.2001(b)(3). C009–C010; S002"],["R075-P1-M002","Under 18, strict upper boundary","General minor representative payment; direct-payment examples require demonstrated ability.","§404.2010(b). C011–C017; S002"],["R075-P1-M003","Within seven months of attaining 18","Minor’s initial benefit application plus ability requirement. “Within” retained; birthday arithmetic and inclusion conventions not computed.","§404.2010(b)(6). C017; S002"],["R075-P1-M004","Under 15, strict upper boundary","Rebuttable interim substantial-harm presumption; statutory exception to the ordinary withholding limit assessed as of SSA’s determination.","§404.2011(a)(1), (b); §405(j)(2)(D)(ii). C025–C027"],["R075-P1-M005","Not more than one month, inclusive maximum","Substantial-harm deferral/suspension while selecting payee; statutory exceptions for legal incompetence, under 15, or §405(j)(1)(B). No conversion to a number of days.","§405(j)(2)(D); §404.2011(b). C027"],["R075-P1-M006","18 attained, or emancipated minor","Advance-designation age/legal-status alternative; applicant/entitled status and regulatory capability restrictions also apply.","§405(j)(1)(C); §404.2018(a). C030"],["R075-P1-M007","One or more individuals; ordered consideration","Advance designation; priority information required if more than one. No nationally fixed maximum count is inferred from the selected text.","§405(j)(1)(C); §404.2018(b), (d). C030–C033"],["R075-P1-M008","More than one year of imprisonment, strict “greater than”","Other-offense restriction; statutory and regulatory exception predicates remain. Not the same as an offense merely punishable by that term.","§405(j)(2)(B)(i)(IV), (C)(i)(IV); §404.2022(b). C044"],["R075-P1-M009","Punishable by death or imprisonment exceeding one year","Incorporated fleeing category only where the jurisdiction does not define felony; actual sentence is not the stated measure.","§402(x)(1)(A)(iv); §405(j)(2)(C)(i)(V). C049; S005"],["R075-P1-M010","At least every three months","Performance review after a prior-misuse exception, until SSA is satisfied there is no risk to the beneficiary’s best interests. Not a universal reporting interval.","§404.2022(d). C046"],["R075-P1-M011","Disability began before age 22, strict boundary","Custodial-parent listed-felony exception; incorporated §423(d) disability and all relationship/best-interest conditions remain.","§405(j)(2)(C)(vi)(II)(cc); §404.2022(f)(1). C051"],["R075-P1-M012","Former minor has turned 18","Parent previously served as that minor’s payee; continued benefit eligibility required. Applies to the specified listed-felony exception.","§405(j)(2)(C)(vi)(II)(ff); §404.2022(f)(2). C051"],["R075-P1-M013","Twelve enumerated felony categories","Taxonomy, not a score or a threshold number of convictions. Attempts/conspiracies and exoneration qualifications remain.","§405(j)(2)(B)(iv)(I)–(XII). C050"],["R075-P1-M014","At least once every five years","Appointed individual screening; statutory periodic-review exception preserved. No actual review date supplied.","§404.2026; 2018 Act §202(f). C059, C099"],["R075-P1-M015","Reasonable period of time","Response to §404.2025 information request; satisfactory-reason plus later-information exception. No numerical period supplied.","§404.2025. C060"],["R075-P1-M016","Not less often than annually","Statutory accountability default, subject to complete identified exceptions; suspected misuse can trigger an anytime report.","§405(j)(3)(A)–(E). C061"],["R075-P1-M017","Annual certification; audit since previous certification, if any","Certified nonprofit bonding/licensing; licensing availability matters. Not a finding that an independent audit occurred.","§405(j)(10). C041"],["R075-P1-M018","Before certification / before actual appointment","Written advance notice, identified recipients and content. No fixed number of advance days is supplied by these clauses alone.","§405(j)(2)(E)(ii); §404.2030(a). C068–C069"],["R075-P1-M019","Under 15 OR unemancipated under 18 OR legally incompetent","Statutory/regulatory notice-recipient alternatives. Under-15 wording is not collapsed into the emancipation condition.","§405(j)(2)(E)(ii)(I)–(III); §404.2030(a). C068"],["R075-P1-M020","Within ten days after receipt","Mailed advance notice plus protest/appeal; action delayed until SSA decides. Signed in-office notice has a separate immediate-effect clause. No deadline computed.","§404.2030(b)(2). C070"],["R075-P1-M021","Within 60 days after receipt","Written reconsideration of initial determination; good-cause extension possible. Actual notice, receipt, decision type, and filing absent.","§404.909(a)–(b). C075"],["R075-P1-M022","Receipt presumed five days after notice date","Expressly defined for Subpart J; rebuttable by showing nonreceipt within that period. Not automatically an added five days for every SSA period.","§404.901. C076"],["R075-P1-M023","60 days after explanation","Good-cause example for reconsideration/hearing following a timely request for explanation.","§404.911(b)(5). C078"],["R075-P1-M024","30 days after explanation","Same specific good-cause example for Appeals Council review/civil suit; not a general filing period.","§404.911(b)(5). C078"],["R075-P1-M025","Ten or more years of railroad service","Condition on the alternative Railroad Retirement Board filing location in the reconsideration rule; not a payee-selection criterion.","§404.909(a)(2). C075"],["R075-P1-M026","Six or more months of nonpayment","POMS identifies advance notice on specified resumption to the same payee; cross-referenced resumption procedure not completed.","GN 00503.100(A)(1)(c). C082; S010"],["R075-P1-M027","15-day diary","POMS manual-advance-notice processing instruction; acknowledgment/agreement before expiration can affect processing. This is not substituted for the regulation’s ten-day receipt-triggered rule or the reconsideration period.","GN 00503.100(E)(3)–(4). C082; S010"],["R075-P1-M028","No fixed elapsed-time bar under the ruling’s stated criteria","SSR 91-5p requires the specified incapacity and lack-of-legally-responsible-person predicates; SSA decides good cause. Not general limitless reopening.","SSR 91-5p, Policy Interpretation. C079; S013"],["R075-P1-M029","Great distance, no numeric distance","Example of undue hardship making an interview impracticable; other investigation remains.","§404.2024(c). C056"],["R075-P1-M030","Overlapping benefit-payment period","Own benefits certified to a payee during the period of proposed service for another.","§405(j)(2)(C)(i)(VII). C045"],["R075-P1-M031","Periodically updated, no fixed interval","Statutory internal screening file; not a public inspection timetable.","§405(j)(2)(B)(ii). C057"],["R075-P1-M032","Ten present regulatory sections","Count of the actual sections in the selected range; not an eligibility or evidence threshold.","S002 inventory; C002"]]},{"headers":["Measurement ID","Source-stated date/period","Actor, trigger, boundary, and exception","Authority / claim"],"index":14,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Measurement ID","Source-stated date/period","Actor, trigger, boundary, and exception","Authority / claim"],["R075-P1-M033","January 1, 1991, on or after","Statutory centralized-file scope for specified misuse revocations/terminations. No actual entry assumed.","§405(j)(2)(B)(ii)(I). C057"],["R075-P1-M034","After the third month following enactment month","1996 selected payee amendments; applies to benefit applications as stated. No date computed from it.","1996 Act §105(a)(5)(B). C094"],["R075-P1-M035","First day of the thirteenth month beginning after enactment","Selected 2004 nonprofit/screening amendments.","2004 Act §§102(a)(3), 103(d). C095"],["R075-P1-M036","Misuse determination after 180 days after enactment","§105’s separate application provision, read with the paragraph redesignation. No current liability calculation or application conclusion.","2004 Act §105(d). C095"],["R075-P1-M037","On enactment: April 13, 2018","Family-accountability exception amendments.","2018 Act §102(d). C096"],["R075-P1-M038","Two years after enactment","Advance-designation statutory effective trigger.","2018 Act §201(b). C097"],["R075-P1-M039","Within 18 months after enactment","Commissioner’s advance-designation regulation duty, not a beneficiary deadline.","2018 Act §201(c). C097"],["R075-P1-M040","By January 1, 2020 and annually thereafter","Statutory notification of advance designations. No actual notification established.","2018 Act §201(d). C097"],["R075-P1-M041","New appointments on or after January 1, 2019","Listed-felony and own-payee statutory amendments, subject to their respective transition clauses.","2018 Act §§202(d), 203(d)(1). C098, C100"],["R075-P1-M042","Not later than January 1, 2024","Prior individual-payee felony review; bar after the determination absent specified exception.","2018 Act §202(e)(1). C098"],["R075-P1-M043","15 or more beneficiaries; age 18 attained","Separate historical review-priority categories, with unrelated/nonspouse qualifications. Not ordinary appointment thresholds.","2018 Act §202(e)(2). C098"],["R075-P1-M044","Within one year after enactment","Commissioner’s periodic-review regulation duty; five-year review frequency and statutory exceptions separate.","2018 Act §202(f). C099"],["R075-P1-M045","Own representative payment as of January 1, 2019; termination as soon as possible, no later than January 1, 2024","Prior serving-payee transition only. No actual termination inferred.","2018 Act §203(d)(2). C100"],["R075-P1-M046","Serving individual on or after January 1, 2019","Statutory discretion to revoke for refusal to permit a background check.","§405(j)(2)(B)(v)(II). C055"],["R075-P1-M047","July 14, 1982 publication/effectiveness; historical four months","Original selected regulation; four-month example superseded by the authenticated 1989 amendment.","S018; C091"],["R075-P1-M048","August 28, 1989 publication/effectiveness","Seven-month amendment; no AFDC conclusion imported.","S019; C091"],["R075-P1-M049","October 7 / November 8, 2004","Publication / effectiveness, respectively.","S020; C092"],["R075-P1-M050","October 18 / November 17, 2006","Publication / displayed effectiveness; original-publication gap remains.","S021; C093"],["R075-P1-M051","November 10 / December 10, 2008","Publication / displayed effectiveness; original-publication gap remains.","S022; C093"],["R075-P1-M052","February 15 / March 18, 2019","Final-rule publication / effectiveness.","S023; C101"],["R075-P1-M053","October 25, 2019; applicability beginning March 18, 2019","Correcting amendment’s effective and application dates, respectively.","S024; C101"],["R075-P1-M054","February 11 / February 25, 2020","Advance-designation rule publication / effectiveness; not conflated with M038.","S025; C102"],["R075-P1-M055","February 10 / December 27, 2026","Enactment / future effectiveness of the unrelated §405(r) amendment.","S026; C103"],["R075-P1-M056","July 1, 1991","SSR 91-5p’s stated effective/publication date; not a current appeal trigger.","S013; C079, C104"],["R075-P1-M057","April 1, 2025; October 7, 20, 26, 27, 2026","Respectively annual CFR edition; alternate statutory cutoff; main statutory cutoff; refreshed eCFR cutoff; actual Los Angeles access date.","S001–S006, S027; C001–C004"],["R075-P1-M058","October 19, 2026","Title-wide last-amended display, not proof of amendment to each selected provision.","S002, S004; C001, C004"],["R075-P1-M059","All POMS TN, revision, and batch dates individually recorded in S007–S012","Instruction metadata only; not silently treated as enactment or effectiveness.","S007–S012; C004"],["R075-P1-M060","March 29, 1996; March 2, 2004; April 13, 2018; December 18, 2024; July 30, 1982","Respectively enacted-history dates, Part 402 source-credit date, and the unverified correction’s cited publication date. The last two are not authenticated complete amendment chains.","S014–S018, S028; C090–C105"]]},{"headers":["Branch ID","Conditional rule and cumulative qualifications","Missing evidence/authority","Adverse inference to avoid","Next permissible generic inquiry"],"index":15,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Branch ID","Conditional rule and cumulative qualifications","Missing evidence/authority","Adverse inference to avoid","Next permissible generic inquiry"],["R075-P1-B001 — Program unknown","Part 404 governs this Title II component; shared screening references do not establish SSI coverage. C005; S001–S002.","Program classification and separate other-title law.","“All SSA benefits use identical rules.”","Examine the public program-scope provision for the separately authorized program."],["B002 — Direct/representative distinction","Representative payment requires SSA’s interest determination and qualified selection. C006–C009.","No decision or payment facts.","“Receiving help creates a payee.”","Read the generic distinction in §§404.2001 and .2010."],["B003 — Adult age/capability/legal status","Adult rule and existing-direct-payment protection use different cumulative predicates. C009–C010; M001.","No age, adjudication, or payment status.","“Old age or disability proves incapacity.”","Compare the complete predicates of §§404.2001(b)(3) and .2010(a)."],["B004 — Minor exception","Under-18 direct payment requires ability and applicable circumstances; examples are not automatic. C011–C017.","No legal category or ability determination.","“Being near 18 always permits direct payment.”","Examine §404.2010(b)’s introductory condition with the selected example."],["B005 — Evidence insufficient","Court, available medical, and lay evidence have distinct roles. C018–C022.","No evidence; no adjudication of sufficiency.","“One diagnosis or absence of medical evidence decides the issue.”","Read generic evidence instructions without seeking a health or court record."],["B006 — Ability to direct management","Ability to direct others can satisfy capability even if personal task performance is limited. C008, C022.","No functional facts.","“Physical assistance necessarily requires a payee.”","Examine the complete agency explanation of managing versus directing management."],["B007 — Existing direct payment","At least 18, already directly paid, and not adjudged legally incompetent triggers the specified continuation rule while SSA decides. C010.","All application predicates absent.","“Any capability question automatically suspends payment.”","Examine the interaction of §404.2001(b)(3) with §404.2011."],["B008 — Interim substantial harm","Outside presumptive categories, both serious-injury expectation and the injury/no-income balancing finding are required. C024–C027.","No causation, injury, or agency finding.","“Unwise spending equals substantial harm.”","Compare both regulatory examples and the full two-part test."],["B009 — DAA category","Disability-based benefit, SSA-determined condition, incapability, and interest are cumulative statutory predicates. C023, C027–C029.","Benefit category and all findings absent.","“A substance-use label allows indefinite withholding.”","Examine §405(j)(1)(B), (8), and (2)(D) together."],["B010 — Individual/organization","Both may be ordinary payees; organizations cannot be advance-designated; individual screening wording is specific. C006, C033, C059.","No category or qualification facts.","“Organizational status alone proves qualification or exemption.”","Read the public category-specific provisions without a provider lookup."],["B011 — Custody/relationship/interest","These are separate selection factors; specified lists sometimes require custody, sometimes concern, sometimes support contributions. C036, C038–C039.","No relationship, custody, support, or concern facts.","“Nearest relative necessarily wins.”","Compare the exact category clauses in §404.2021."],["B012 — Preference/departure","Preferences are flexible; advance priority remains conditional on qualification and interests. C032, C037.","No designee or best-interest determination.","“Preference creates an enforceable appointment entitlement.”","Examine the stated departure/good-cause provisions."],["B013 — Guardian not appointed","Guardian status is relevant but not independently sufficient; SSA may select another person. C065.","No court instrument or appointment.","“Court appointment automatically creates federal payee status.”","Read generic SSA guardian instructions; State-law consequences remain separately held."],["B014 — Creditor/institution","Creditor exceptions require the stated risk/conflict and category conditions; statutory alternative-payee safeguards also matter. C047–C048.","No creditor relationship, licensing, conflict, or alternatives.","“A care provider may appoint itself to secure payment.”","Examine the full statutory and regulatory creditor clauses, including unresolved wording differences."],["B015 — Restricted conviction category","Distinct bars have distinct exceptions; listed-felony exceptions do not override every other bar. C043–C052.","No offense classification, conviction, exoneration, pardon, custody, or interest finding.","“All convictions either bar service forever or are cured by family status.”","Read the narrow incorporated public offense category only under a separately bounded inquiry."],["B016 — Own payee","Statutory bar concerns overlapping representative payment of the proposed payee’s own benefits. C045.","No payment periods or appointment facts.","“Any past payee relationship creates a lifetime bar.”","Compare current wording with the 2018 transition clauses."],["B017 — Prior misuse exception","All regulatory exception conditions and periodic monitoring apply. C046.","No determination, repayment/plan, alternative, or suitability evidence.","“A repayment promise automatically restores eligibility.”","Examine the complete exception and its statutory authorization."],["B018 — Advance designation","Eligible applicant/beneficiary may designate individuals; later selection requires all statutory qualifications and no displacing good cause. C030–C035.","No valid designation, capacity predicate, willingness, or investigation.","“Designation is a present power of attorney.”","Examine §404.2018 in full and the incorporated §405(j)(2) conditions."],["B019 — Agency investigation","Investigation precedes certification; limited interview exceptions do not erase all inquiries. C053–C058.","No actual investigation or findings.","“A statutory duty proves screening occurred.”","Compare statute and regulation’s required categories without querying any person."],["B020 — Beneficiary objection","Need-for-payee and identity objections can concern different determinations. C068–C075.","No decision, objection, or authorized acting role.","“Any third party has the beneficiary’s appeal right.”","Identify the generic decision category and applicable review provision."],["B021 — Initial notice","Advance written notice has specified recipients and contents; POMS adds recipient instructions requiring careful bounding. C068–C069, C082.","No notice, legal status, or recipient facts; certain instruction-level legal bases incomplete.","“Current payee, proposed payee, and beneficiary always receive identical notice.”","Examine the public legal foundation of the particular recipient exception."],["B022 — Timing/receipt","Ten-day mailed-notice action delay, sixty-day reconsideration, and five-day Subpart J receipt presumption are separate. C070, C075–C078.","No dates, delivery method, rebuttal, or counting convention.","“All periods can be added into one due date.”","Read the precise counting/delivery authority before any later calendar analysis."],["B023 — Appeal/other procedure","Beneficiary selection review differs from applicant nonselection and informal protest. C071–C084.","No decision classification or standing.","“Every payee-related action is an appealable initial determination.”","Compare §404.902, §404.903(c), and the bounded POMS lists."],["B024 — Good cause/incapacity","Good cause is decided on circumstances; SSR 91-5p has its own incapacity and legally-responsible-person predicates. C077–C079.","No contemporaneous limitation, representation, or lateness facts.","“Current illness automatically extends every deadline.”","Examine the ruling’s complete conditions and current regulatory good-cause provision."],["B025 — Later capability change","Direct payment follows the required showing under §404.2055, not merely a request. C064.","No ability showing or resolved legal-status evidence.","“A new statement automatically cancels the payee.”","Read generic restoration evidence rules and separately identify any legal-status issue."],["B026 — Other assets/debt authority absent","Selected provisions authorize a federal-benefit payment arrangement; broader powers are not established. C035, C066, C089.","No separate legal instrument or applicable downstream law.","“Payee appointment authorizes debt settlement or all-asset control.”","Separately scope the precise public fund-use or agency-law provision; no transaction drafting."],["B027 — Downstream administration held","Use, accounting, conservation, fees, misuse, replacement, and overpayment have separate provisions. C060–C064, C089.","Complete downstream legal bodies not investigated.","“This selection report answers how benefits may be spent.”","Use the exact next-provision pointers in §7 below."],["B028 — Statutory/regulatory difference","Statutory qualifications cannot be erased by a shorter regulatory list or older wording. C041–C042, C048–C051, C088.","Reconciliation beyond express text and complete later history.","“The texts are identical” or “the regulation has been judicially invalidated.”","Locate a material enacted amendment/final rule or generic official clarification; keep judicial merits held."],["B029 — Currentness/source gap","Current displays are bounded by stated cutoffs; failed originals remain gaps. C001–C004, C090–C105.","Unread corrections, later-law chain, original 2006/2008 publications.","“Failed access proves repeal or no law.”","Reattempt ordinary public original-publication access, without bypassing a gate."],["B030 — Other law/parent scope","No complete SSI, disability, guardianship, tax, protected-funds, collection, bankruptcy, or debt-relief result follows. C005, C089.","Separate regimes and all application facts.","“This component completes A075 or supports a financial action.”","Define a separate generic public-law component before researching that regime."],["B031 — POMS voluntary-conservator instruction","The instruction has specific request/court/application predicates and a best-interest caution; statutory investigation remains unresolved as to any claimed abbreviated process. C067.","Legal reconciliation and every factual predicate.","“Convenience alone permits appointment” or “screening is waived.”","Obtain a public official clarification of the instruction’s development scope."],["B032 — Foreign/minor instruction edge","POMS recipient exceptions do not by themselves resolve statutory under-15/emancipation or foreign-residence questions. C068, C082–C083, C088.","Indispensable legal basis beyond selected sources.","“An instruction exception universally overrides the statutory notice language.”","Examine only the public authority supporting the specific exception in a separately bounded inquiry."]]},{"headers":["Held topic","Next public-law provision or source to examine","What remains unestablished"],"index":16,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Held topic","Next public-law provision or source to examine","What remains unestablished"],["General payee responsibilities; ownership/separation of funds","20 CFR §404.2035","Complete duties, exceptions, account ownership, and practical implementation"],["Current maintenance and debt payment","20 CFR §404.2040, including the complete debt-payment clause and adjacent qualifications","Whether any debt may be paid, priority, validity, settlement, or creditor entitlement"],["Fees and qualified fee organizations","20 CFR §404.2040a; 42 USC §405(j)(4), (10)","Qualification, current adjusted amounts, authorization, fee collection, exceptions"],["Misuse, restitution, reissuance, negligence, liability","20 CFR §404.2041; 42 USC §405(j)(5), (7), (9)","Actual misuse, recovery, liability, or an amount payable"],["Conservation, investments, account titling","20 CFR §404.2045","Permitted account arrangement, investment, ownership proof, banking protection"],["Removal/replacement beyond the narrow clauses read","20 CFR §404.2050 and necessary current statutory provisions","Complete grounds, interim payment consequences, notices, and implementation"],["Transfers of conserved benefits; death-related consequences","20 CFR §404.2060 and indispensable death/underpayment provisions","Recipient, estate, transfer, or ownership outcome"],["Complete accountability and monitoring","20 CFR §404.2065; 42 USC §405(j)(3), (6), (12)","Full reporting, exception, review, grants, or oversight obligations"],["Foster-care reassessment","42 USC §405(j)(11) and incorporated §§674(a)(3)(C), 675(8)","Covered child category, State-system definition, actual reassessment"],["Overpayment","20 CFR Part 404, Subpart F, with applicable statutory provisions","Liability, waiver, recovery, offsets, or personal repayment obligation"],["Formal representative in an SSA proceeding","20 CFR Part 404, Subpart R","Appointment, authority, fees, access, and distinction from payee"],["Judicial review/counting/exhaustion","42 USC §405(g) and complete applicable judicial-review regulation, including 20 CFR §422.210, if separately authorized","Filing trigger/counting, exhaustion, jurisdictional merits, remedies"],["SSI","42 USC §1383(a)(2); 20 CFR Part 416, Subpart F","No SSI rule is adopted from this Title II report"],["Guardianship, powers of attorney, protected funds, tax, collection, bankruptcy","Separately scoped applicable public legal bodies","No State/federal private-law, immunity, exemption, tax, debt, or collection conclusion"]]},{"headers":["Analytical field","Authority entry","Evidence entry","Analysis","Result"],"index":17,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Analytical field","Authority entry","Evidence entry","Analysis","Result"],["Source and publication type","","","",""],["Displayed version and compilation cutoff","","","",""],["Legal status and effective/application trigger","","","",""],["Access date and complete/selected read bounds","","","",""],["Program and generic beneficiary category","","","",""],["Direct/representative payment classification","","","",""],["Capability versus legal-status classification","","","",""],["Manage versus direct-management criterion","","","",""],["Generic legal/medical/lay evidence category","","","",""],["Existing-direct-payment provision","","","",""],["Interim substantial-harm provision","","","",""],["Individual/organizational category","","","",""],["Relationship/custody/interest criterion","","","",""],["Preference and departure provision","","","",""],["Restriction and exception provision","","","",""],["Creditor/institutional qualification","","","",""],["Advance designation versus appointment","","","",""],["Agency investigation requirement","","","",""],["Agency decision type","","","",""],["Notice category, recipient, and content","","","",""],["Objection/reconsideration/review classification","","","",""],["Quantity, unit, boundary, and trigger","","","",""],["Delivery/receipt/counting convention","","","",""],["Good-cause or other exception","","","",""],["Later capability-review provision","","","",""],["Cross-reference and unresolved scope","","","",""],["Statutory/regulatory/instruction difference","","","",""],["Downstream administration boundary","","","",""],["Other-law and jurisdiction boundary","","","",""],["Currentness and original-source gap","","","",""],["Missing authority or predicate","","","",""],["Next permissible generic public-law inquiry","","","",""]]},{"headers":["Coverage ID / requested question","Status and finding","Claim/source/branch links","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry"],"index":18,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Coverage ID / requested question","Status and finding","Claim/source/branch links","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry"],["Q1-a — Every section present in requested range","Answered. Complete inventory and full selected reads.","C002; S002–S003; §2 inventory","No application facts sought."],["Q1-b — Nested exceptions/examples/notes","Answered for current selected regulations. Both substantial-harm and creditor examples read.","C011–C029, C043–C056","Original correction history remains partial under Q8."],["Q1-c — Necessary §405(j) clauses","Answered with explicit bounds. Complete relevant selection/notice clauses and narrow safeguards read.","S001; C003, C023, C030–C063","Other §405(j) regimes expressly identified as uncompleted."],["Q1-d — Exact unread remainder","Answered. Read-versus-exposed-versus-held distinction supplied.","§1 read-bound statement","No claim of whole-§405(j) review."],["Q1-e — Publication/version/legal status","Answered with currentness limits.","C001–C004, C090, C103–C105; S001–S028","Complete later-law/judicial audit not performed."],["Q2-a — Title II versus XVI","Answered. Cross-title screens bounded.","C005; B001; S001–S002","Separate SSI provisions are next inquiry only if authorized."],["Q2-b — Beneficiary/payee/direct payment","Answered. SSA-selected payment role distinguished from entitlement and assistance.","C006–C010; B002","All actual program/decision facts absent."],["Q2-c — Capability/legal incompetence/age","Answered. Distinct tests, categories, and exceptions.","C009–C029; B003–B009; M001–M006","No individual age, adjudication, or ability facts."],["Q2-d — Guardian/legal representative/organization","Answered with State-law hold.","C033, C036–C042, C065–C067; B010–B014","Full State-law powers and Treasury rules not investigated."],["Q3-a — Legal/medical/lay evidence","Answered. Full §404.2015 and material POMS read.","C018–C022; S002, S007–S009; B005","No evidence evaluated."],["Q3-b — Manage OR direct management","Answered. Direction capability expressly retained.","C008, C022, C064; B006","No functional assessment permitted or needed."],["Q3-c — Continued direct payment","Answered. Existing-payment and interim-selection settings separated.","C010, C024–C029; B007–B009","No actual payment stage or harm finding."],["Q3-d — Presumptions/safeguards","Answered with textual differences held.","C021, C025–C029, C088","No universal presumption beyond its specific context."],["Q4-a — Investigation/application process","Answered generically.","C053–C058; S001–S002; B019","No screening or application was performed."],["Q4-b — Preference orders by category","Answered. Complete adult, minor, and special statutory lists supplied.","C036–C042; B010–B012","No category or best-interest application."],["Q4-c — Mandatory/discretionary distinctions","Answered. Preferences, bars, exceptions, and SSA discretion separated.","C037–C059","Actual suitability remains unknown."],["Q4-d — Creditor/institution safeguards","Answered as text; reconciliation partial.","C047–C048; B014; difference table","Exact disputed reach of facility clause requires further generic legal clarification."],["Q4-e — Restricted categories/exceptions","Answered as selected law.","C043–C052; B015–B017","Offense elements, convictions, exoneration, pardons, and records excluded."],["Q4-f — Changed statute/older regulation","Answered as identified differences; merits unresolved.","C041–C042, C049–C051, C059, C088","No judicial harmonization or invalidity conclusion."],["Q5-a — Advance designation established?","Answered. Present in selected statute and §404.2018.","C030–C034; S001–S002","No actual designation."],["Q5-b — Eligibility/change/withdrawal","Answered. Full regulatory conditions read.","C030–C031; M006–M007","No capability or application determination."],["Q5-c — Relationship to appointment","Answered. Ordered conditional consideration; organization exclusion.","C032–C035; B018","Willingness, ability, investigation, good cause absent."],["Q5-d — Other powers","Answered as a boundary. No independent authority inferred.","C035, C066; B026","Separate agency/guardianship/fund-use law held."],["Q6-a — Necessary outside-range notice rule","Answered. Complete §404.2030 read.","C068–C070; S002","No actual notice."],["Q6-b — Recipients/content","Answered; instruction-level edges partial.","C068–C069, C082–C083; B021, B032","Foreign/minor/proposed-payee exceptions need complete legal foundation before application."],["Q6-c — Ten-day action delay","Answered. Mailed notice and timely protest/appeal conditions preserved.","C070; M020","Counting conventions and actual dates absent; no computation."],["Q6-d — Initial determination/standing","Answered. Beneficiary review distinguished from applicant nonselection.","C071–C075, C083; B020, B023","Decision classification and actual authorized role absent."],["Q6-e — Sixty-day reconsideration/receipt","Answered. Complete narrow cross-references read.","C075–C078; M021–M025; S004","No transposition to unrelated decisions or actual deadline."],["Q6-f — Good cause/incapacity","Answered with ruling-status/judicial limits.","C077–C079; S013–S014; B024","No incapacity/representation evidence; acquiescence/judicial history held."],["Q6-g — Decisionmaker/process/evidence","Answered within initial/reconsideration scope.","C080, C084–C085; S004, S012","Full later hearing/evidence/records-access regimes held."],["Q6-h — Direct-payment restoration","Answered. Complete §404.2055 read.","C064; B025","No ability showing or legal-status resolution."],["Q6-i — Judicial review","Partial by scope. Statutory right and incorporated body read; full judicial procedure not supplied.","C081; S001","Next narrow source would be applicable complete judicial-review regulation; no case search."],["Q7-a — Direct/representative comparison","Answered.","§4; C006–C010, C024–C029","No actual outcome."],["Q7-b — Capability/legal incompetence/guardian","Answered with State-law hold.","§4; C018–C022, C065–C067","No broader guardianship conclusion."],["Q7-c — Preference/disqualification","Answered.","§4; C037–C059","Each actual predicate absent."],["Q7-d — Title II/XVI and designation/appointment","Answered.","§4; C005, C030–C035","Separate program rules not imported."],["Q7-e — Initial/later review","Answered within selected clauses.","C060–C064, C068–C086","Full replacement/administration held."],["Q7-f — Use/debt/accounts/conservation/fees","Excluded with reason: downstream component. Exact pointers supplied.","C089; §7; B026–B027","Read complete §§404.2035–.2045 only in a separately scoped pass."],["Q7-g — Misuse/removal/death/overpayment","Excluded except narrow indispensable safeguards.","C061–C064, C089; §7","Full downstream clauses and cross-references remain."],["Q7-h — Protected funds/tax/collection/other benefits","Excluded with reason: separate regimes and absent facts.","C005, C089; B030","New generic public-law component required."],["Q8-a — Material enacted changes","Answered for selected 1996/2004/2018 bodies.","C094–C100; S015–S017","Not a full historical chain."],["Q8-b — Regulatory adoption/amendments","Answered for successful originals; partial for 2006/2008 and 1982 correction.","C091–C093, C101–C102; S018–S025, S028","Ordinary official-original access remains the next inquiry."],["Q8-c — Renumbering/cross-references","Answered for §405(j)(10) redesignation; partial for other histories.","C095; S016","Part 402 reorganization original not independently authenticated."],["Q8-d — Future-effective material","Answered. 2026 §405(r) amendment segregated.","C103; S026","No representative-payee amendment inferred from it."],["Q8-e — Failure handling","Answered. Exact failures and alternatives logged.","C105; §10","Failures do not prove legal absence."],["Q8-f — Complete later history/judicial certification","Unresolved and held.","C090; B029","No comprehensive session-law, rescission, or judicial audit claimed."],["Q9-a — Every relied-on age/count/period","Answered. Current measures registered.","M001–M032","All application facts absent."],["Q9-b — Historical dates/application windows","Answered. Separate historical register.","M033–M060","No actual deadline generated."],["Q9-c — Units/boundaries/exceptions/receipt","Answered where text supplies them; unresolved where it does not.","M001–M060; B022","Calendar/business-day and end-of-period conventions not invented."],["Q9-d — Financial or calendar model","Excluded as unnecessary.","Measurement introduction","No actual or fictional inputs."],["Q10-a — At least twenty meaningful branches","Answered: thirty-two conditional branches.","B001–B032","Every branch identifies missing predicates/authority and next inquiry."],["Q10-b — All requested branch themes","Answered, including program, capability, direct payment, preference, creditor, restriction, designation, investigation, notice, timing, review, later change, downstream, mismatch, currentness, and other law.","B001–B032, mapped to exact C/S references","No manufactured requirement used to fill a row."],["Q11-a — Wholly blank worksheet","Answered. All entry/analysis/result cells empty.","§8","No identity, health, financial, legal-status, or transaction fields populated."],["Q11-b — Source/program/evidence/selection fields","Answered.","§8","Analytical labels only."],["Q11-c — Notice/quantity/cross-reference/gap fields","Answered.","§8","No computed result or operative language."],["Q11-d — No application/screening/decision tool","Answered as a design boundary.","§8; researcher self-check","Worksheet is not used to make a personal determination."]]},{"headers":["Log item","What actually happened","Evidentiary consequence"],"index":19,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Log item","What actually happened","Evidentiary consequence"],["Main regulation","Complete current selected sections obtained from S002; selected 2025 official annual pages also read.","Current text and historical official edition are distinguished; they are not independent corroboration of a full amendment chain."],["Main statute","A legacy OLRC endpoint failed; the release-specific S001 endpoint succeeded.","Claims use the successful current displayed body and exact read bounds."],["Incorporated §402 and §423","Newer attempted endpoints failed; readable official alternatives displayed October 7, 2026 compilation.","Earlier cutoff retained at source and coverage level; no assertion that the failures mean repeal or absence."],["Enacted history","Selected complete enacted clauses in the 1996, 2004, 2018 Acts obtained from GPO.","Statutory changes/effective predicates rest on amendatory bodies, not notes alone."],["2026 displayed amendment","Classification entry traced to complete Public Law 119-77.","Future effectiveness and different subsection identified; not treated as current §405(j) change."],["Final rules","Official PDFs read for 1982, 1989, 2004, 2019, the 2019 correction, and 2020 within stated bounds.","Printed pages and zero-based PDF indices recorded; no whole-issue or pixel review claimed."],["2006/2008 rules","Government-hosted XML amendatory bodies readable; attempted official GPO originals failed.","Historical original authentication remains partial."],["POMS and SSR","Identified complete instruction/ruling bodies read.","Revision, TN, batch, publication, and legal status kept distinct."],["Older SSR-status locator","Current §402.35 was a different subject; current §402.160(b) supplied the relevant publication/status language.","No claim that the old locator still supports SSR status; no records-request procedure pursued."],["Discovery material","Search excerpts, unexamined secondary mirrors, and unexamined linked instructions were not used as substantive proof.","No case, party, provider, roster, or actual record investigation."]]},{"headers":["Failed original/endpoint","Result and readable alternative"],"index":20,"links":[{"href":"https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section405&num=0&edition=prelim","text":"https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section405&num=0&edition=prelim"},{"href":"https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s402/","text":"https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s402/"},{"href":"https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s423/","text":"https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s423/"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2026-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2026-title20-vol2-part404-subpartU.pdf","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2026-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2026-title20-vol2-part404-subpartU.pdf"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2026-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2026-title20-vol2-sec404-2001.pdf","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2026-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2026-title20-vol2-sec404-2001.pdf"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2025-title20-vol2-part404-subpartU.pdf","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2025-title20-vol2-part404-subpartU.pdf"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/pdf/E6-17320.pdf","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/pdf/E6-17320.pdf"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/pdf/e6-17320.pdf","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/pdf/e6-17320.pdf"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/html/E6-17320.htm","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/html/E6-17320.htm"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/pdf/E8-26680.pdf","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/pdf/E8-26680.pdf"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/pdf/e8-26680.pdf","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/pdf/e8-26680.pdf"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/html/E8-26680.htm","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/html/E8-26680.htm"},{"href":"https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/47-FR-32936","text":"https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/47-FR-32936"},{"href":"https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1982/7/30/32935-32937.pdf","text":"https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1982/7/30/32935-32937.pdf"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1982-07-30/pdf/FR-1982-07-30.pdf","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1982-07-30/pdf/FR-1982-07-30.pdf"}],"row_links":[[],[{"href":"https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section405&num=0&edition=prelim","text":"https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section405&num=0&edition=prelim"}],[{"href":"https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s402/","text":"https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s402/"}],[{"href":"https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s423/","text":"https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s423/"}],[{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2026-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2026-title20-vol2-part404-subpartU.pdf","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2026-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2026-title20-vol2-part404-subpartU.pdf"}],[{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2026-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2026-title20-vol2-sec404-2001.pdf","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2026-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2026-title20-vol2-sec404-2001.pdf"}],[{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2025-title20-vol2-part404-subpartU.pdf","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2025-title20-vol2-part404-subpartU.pdf"}],[{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/pdf/E6-17320.pdf","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/pdf/E6-17320.pdf"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/pdf/e6-17320.pdf","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/pdf/e6-17320.pdf"}],[{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/html/E6-17320.htm","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/html/E6-17320.htm"}],[{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/pdf/E8-26680.pdf","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/pdf/E8-26680.pdf"},{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/pdf/e8-26680.pdf","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/pdf/e8-26680.pdf"}],[{"href":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/html/E8-26680.htm","text":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/html/E8-26680.htm"}],[{"href":"https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/47-FR-32936","text":"https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/47-FR-32936"}],[{"href":"https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1982/7/30/32935-32937.pdf","text":"https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1982/7/30/32935-32937.pdf"}],[{"href":"https://www.govinfo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original/endpoint","Result and readable alternative"],["https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section405&num=0&edition=prelim","Returned failure/404. Successful alternative: S001."],["https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s402/","Not accessible through the browsing tool. Official earlier-display alternative: S005."],["https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s423/","Not accessible. Official earlier-display alternative: S006."],["https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2026-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2026-title20-vol2-part404-subpartU.pdf","Failed. This does not establish that no 2026 edition exists. Current eCFR and selected official 2025 pages were used within their respective limits."],["https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2026-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2026-title20-vol2-sec404-2001.pdf","Failed; no inference about the law or publication’s existence."],["https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CFR-2025-title20-vol2/pdf/CFR-2025-title20-vol2-part404-subpartU.pdf","Failed; section-specific official 2025 PDFs in S003 succeeded."],["https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/pdf/E6-17320.pdf and https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/pdf/e6-17320.pdf","Both attempted PDF variants failed. S021 XML body was readable but remains an unofficial rendition."],["https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2006-10-18/html/E6-17320.htm","Failed; no original-body certification."],["https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/pdf/E8-26680.pdf and https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/pdf/e8-26680.pdf","Both attempted PDF variants failed. S022 XML body was readable within its status limitation."],["https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2008-11-10/html/E8-26680.htm","Failed; no original-body certification."],["https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/47-FR-32936","Failed citation endpoint; correction body remains unverified."],["https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1982/7/30/32935-32937.pdf","Attempted archival alternative failed. No page contents inferred."],["https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1982-07-30/pdf/FR-1982-07-30.pdf","Attempted official issue alternative failed. No security workaround used."]]},{"headers":["Check","Result"],"index":21,"links":[],"row_links":[[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[],[]],"rows":[["Check","Result"],["Independent reopening of public originals","Completed for the sources and bounds identified; earlier reports were not premises."],["Every actual section in §§404.2001–404.2025","Read completely and inventoried."],["Necessary §405(j) clauses and unread remainder","Specified expressly; no whole-regime claim."],["Statute/regulation/instruction/history separation","Maintained in source, claim, and difference registers."],["Material cumulative conditions and exceptions","Included for capability, interim payment, selection, restrictions, designation, notice, and reconsideration."],["Source-stated quantities relied on","Registered with actor, trigger, boundary, exceptions, and limits; no actual calculation."],["Actual or invented identifying investigation","None conducted."],["Actual records, forms, notices, applications, screening, filings, or contacts","None accessed, created, completed, or transmitted."],["Published examples","Read as legal text; their parties and factual stories were not recreated or applied."],["PDF treatment","Parsed text only; printed pagination and zero-based indices distinguished."],["Failed originals","Retained visibly; not treated as legal absence."],["Conditional branches","Thirty-two substantive branches, with source/claim links, missing predicates, adverse inferences, and next generic inquiries."],["Worksheet","All evidence, authority-entry, analysis, and result cells genuinely blank."],["Personal medical, legal, suitability, benefit, or financial determination","None made."],["Debt settlement or other financial action","No recommendation or authority inferred."],["Independent review / acceptance","Not claimed."]]}],"claims":[{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C001","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C001","Supported atomic finding":"The access date is October 27, 2026 Los Angeles time. The most recent successful main statutory display was through October 20, and the refreshed main eCFR display through October 26. These are different kinds of dates.","Exact authority and scope":"Research clock; S001, S002, S027. Neither date is an exhaustive later-law certification."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C002","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C002","Supported atomic finding":"The selected regulatory range contains the ten sections listed in §2 above. Each was read completely.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §§404.2001–404.2025 as actually organized."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C003","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C003","Supported atomic finding":"The main statutory read is clause-specific, not a whole-§405(j) investigation. The §402 and §423 alternatives have an earlier displayed cutoff than S001.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, S005, S006 and the express read-bound statement above."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C004","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C004","Supported atomic finding":"Enacted statutory text, regulations, editorial notes, POMS instructions, SSRs, and historical amendatory instruments have different legal functions. An eCFR display is an unofficial publication of regulatory text; a POMS batch date does not amend the statute or regulation.","Exact authority and scope":"S001–S002, S007–S014, S021–S022; publication/status statements on the sources."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C005","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C005","Supported atomic finding":"Part 404 is the Title II old-age, survivors, and disability insurance framework. References to Title VIII or XVI in screening, prior misuse, designation, or own-payee restrictions do not import the full SSI or other program regime.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, Part 404/Subpart U; S001, §405(j)(1)(C), (2)(B)–(C)."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C006","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C006","Supported atomic finding":"A representative payee under the selected regulation is a person or organization selected by SSA to receive benefits on the beneficiary’s behalf. The term does not establish a separate person’s benefit eligibility or a general power over assets.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2001(a); S001, §405(j)(1)(A). \nuscode.house.gov"},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C007","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C007","Supported atomic finding":"The Commissioner may certify direct or representative payment when the individual’s interests would be served, regardless of legal competency or incompetency, subject to the statutory payee requirements.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(1)(A), first sentence, incorporating (2). This does not mean legal status is irrelevant to the regulations’ specific rules."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C008","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C008","Supported atomic finding":"SSA’s regulatory policy recognizes each beneficiary’s right to manage their benefits. Representative payment generally concerns inability to manage or direct management of benefit payments in the beneficiary’s interest.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2001(a), (b)(1)–(2). Youth or a physical/mental condition is a possible basis for inquiry, not an automatic conclusion."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C009","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C009","Supported atomic finding":"For an adult beneficiary, §404.2010 requires the interest determination plus information of legal incompetence or mental inability to manage, or physical inability to manage or direct management.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2010(a)(1)–(2). No diagnosis, debt, disability label, or old-age label independently supplies these findings."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C010","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C010","Supported atomic finding":"If direct payment is already being made, capability is questioned, the beneficiary is at least 18, and the beneficiary has not been adjudged legally incompetent, SSA continues direct payment until it determines capability and selects a payee.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2001(b)(3). This is distinct from the later substantial-harm analysis while locating a suitable payee. \necfr.gov"},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C011","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C011","Supported atomic finding":"Under 18, representative payment is the general rule, but direct payment is possible where ability to manage is shown. The listed circumstances are examples, not an exhaustive entitlement list.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2010(b), introductory language. The ability condition applies to C012–C017."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C012","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C012","Supported atomic finding":"One minor direct-payment example is receipt of disability insurance benefits on the beneficiary’s own earnings record, with the introductory ability requirement.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2010(b)(1)."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C013","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C013","Supported atomic finding":"Another example is military service, with the same ability requirement.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2010(b)(2). No military status is supplied."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C014","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C014","Supported atomic finding":"Another example requires living alone and self-support, with ability to manage shown.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2010(b)(3)."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C015","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C015","Supported atomic finding":"The parent example requires a parent filing for self and/or child and experience handling the parent’s finances, with ability shown.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2010(b)(4). Parenthood alone is insufficient."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C016","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C016","Supported atomic finding":"Another example requires ability to use benefits for current needs and absence of an available qualified payee.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2010(b)(5)."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C017","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C017","Supported atomic finding":"Another example concerns a beneficiary within seven months of attaining 18 and initially applying for benefits, subject to the introductory ability requirement.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2010(b)(6); historical change authenticated in S019. No birthday calculation follows."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C018","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C018","Supported atomic finding":"When SSA learns of a legal-incompetence finding, a certified court determination forms the basis of its representative-payment determination. This is not SSA itself issuing a general court adjudication of incompetence.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2015(a)."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C019","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C019","Supported atomic finding":"Medical evidence is used when available. The regulatory example involves a recent examination, present condition, nature of illness, recovery prospects, and an opinion about managing or directing management.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2015(b), complete example. It supplies no mandatory diagnosis, numerical score, or universal examination interval."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C020","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C020","Supported atomic finding":"SSA also considers helpful statements from relatives, friends, and others positioned to know and observe the beneficiary.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2015(c). This is an evidence category, not authority to solicit actual records in this pass."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C021","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C021","Supported atomic finding":"POMS instructs staff to presume a legally competent adult capable absent indicators requiring development; capability decisions require supporting evidence and reasoning, and payee appointment is not for convenience.","Exact authority and scope":"S007, GN 00502.001, complete relevant policy/procedure. Instruction-level clarification, not a substitute for §§404.2001–.2015."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C022","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C022","Supported atomic finding":"POMS expressly distinguishes diagnosis from capability and recognizes that a beneficiary able to direct others’ management can be capable even if unable to perform every management task personally.","Exact authority and scope":"S008, GN 00502.020(A)–(C). Medical, lay, and legal evidence remain context-specific; no personal assessment is made. \n01/26/2017\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C023","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C023","Supported atomic finding":"The special statutory DAA provision requires benefits based on the individual’s disability, an SSA-determined alcoholism or drug-addiction condition, incapability of managing those benefits, and an interest determination. Disability-based benefits are defined in (j)(8) as specified own-disability insurance, child’s, widow’s, or widower’s benefits.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(1)(B), (8). A substance-use condition alone is insufficient. \nuscode.house.gov\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C024","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C024","Supported atomic finding":"While finding a suitable payee, current monthly benefits are paid directly unless SSA determines direct payment would cause substantial harm.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2011(a), subject to its full qualifications and the §404.2001(b)(3) cross-reference."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C025","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C025","Supported atomic finding":"The regulation creates a rebuttable substantial-harm presumption for specified disability-payment/DAA circumstances, legal incompetence, or age under 15. It expressly permits evidence that direct payment would not cause substantial harm.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2011(a)(1). This is a particular interim-payment rule, not a general redefinition of legal competence."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C026","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C026","Supported atomic finding":"Outside those categories, substantial harm requires both expected serious physical or mental injury from direct receipt and a finding that the possible injury outweighs the effect of having no income for basic needs.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2011(a)(2)(i)–(ii). Unwise spending alone does not satisfy this stated test."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C027","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C027","Supported atomic finding":"Ordinarily, substantial-harm deferral/suspension while finding a payee may last no more than one month. The statutory limit does not apply when, as of SSA’s determination, the beneficiary is legally incompetent, under 15, or described in §405(j)(1)(B).","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(2)(D)(i)–(ii); S002, §404.2011(b). The regulation preserves rebuttal and cross-references existing-direct-payment protection."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C028","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C028","Supported atomic finding":"Delayed or suspended benefits can be paid to the beneficiary or payee as a single sum or over a period/in installments when SSA determines that treatment serves the beneficiary’s interests.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(2)(D)(iii); S002, §404.2011(c). No amount, installment schedule, or actual payment right is calculated."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C029","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C029","Supported atomic finding":"The regulation’s examples distinguish expected serious injury from concern that money may be used unwisely. Its retirement-benefit example does not make a substance-use condition a universal exception to the one-month limit.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2011, both examples; S001, §405(j)(1)(B), (2)(D), (8). Published examples were read without adopting or recreating their parties or facts. \necfr.gov"},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C030","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C030","Supported atomic finding":"Statutory advance designation is available to an applicant or entitled individual who has attained 18 or is an emancipated minor. The regulation additionally bars designation when SSA has specified information of legal incompetence, mental incapability, or physical inability to manage/direct benefits.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(1)(C)(i); S002, §404.2018(a). No actual eligibility to designate is established."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C031","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C031","Supported atomic finding":"The regulation identifies required designation information—designee name, telephone number, and priority order if more than one—and makes relationship information optional. Changes and withdrawal require continued qualification under paragraph (a).","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2018(b)–(c). These are descriptions of legal requirements only; no fields collecting that information are included in the worksheet."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C032","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C032","Supported atomic finding":"After SSA decides representative payment is needed, it considers designees in the specified order and selects the first who is willing and able, satisfies §405(j)(2), and is not displaced for other good cause under §§404.2020–.2021.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(1)(C)(i)(I)–(II); S002, §404.2018(d)(1). Designation does not eliminate investigation or disqualification rules."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C033","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C033","Supported atomic finding":"An organization cannot be advance-designated under these provisions. If no designee qualifies, SSA returns to its preference guide and other Subpart U requirements; an organization may still qualify through ordinary selection.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(1)(C)(ii); S002, §§404.2018(d)(2), (f), .2001(a), .2021."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C034","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C034","Supported atomic finding":"When a later change of payee is needed, SSA considers other designees made when the beneficiary was eligible to designate.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2018(e). This does not establish that a current designation exists or remains factually usable."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C035","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C035","Supported atomic finding":"Advance designation identifies a possible future SSA payee; it does not itself establish appointment, present control, guardianship, a power of attorney, records access, or debt-settlement authority.","Exact authority and scope":"Bounded reading of S001, §405(j)(1)(C), and S002, §404.2018. Other sources of authority remain unexamined. \necfr.gov"},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C036","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C036","Supported atomic finding":"SSA selects for the beneficiary’s interests, considering relationship, interest shown, existing legal authority, custody, ability to know/look after needs, criminal history, and advance designation.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2020(a)–(g). No single label establishes suitability."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C037","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C037","Supported atomic finding":"The regulatory preference categories are flexible guides. Qualified advance designees are considered first, subject to willingness, ability, restrictions, and best interests.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2021 introductory language; §404.2018(d)."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C038","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C038","Supported atomic finding":"Ordinary adult preferences are: guardian/spouse/relative with custody or strong concern; friend with custody or strong concern; public/nonprofit agency or institution with custody; State-licensed for-profit private institution with custody; then other qualified, able, willing persons.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2021(a)(1)–(5), excluding the special paragraph (b) category. The ordering is not an appointment entitlement."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C039","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C039","Supported atomic finding":"Minor preferences distinguish custodial parent/guardian; noncustodial parent contributing and concerned; noncustodial parent not contributing but concerned; custodial relative/stepparent; contributing concerned noncustodial relative; concerned noncustodial relative/close friend; and authorized social agency/custodial institution.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2021(c)(1)–(7). Contribution, custody, relationship, and concern are different predicates."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C040","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C040","Supported atomic finding":"For the statutory §405(j)(1)(B) category, preference is for a certified community nonprofit, specified government mission agency, State/local fiduciary agency, or appropriate nonfederal designee, unless SSA determines a family member would be appropriate.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(2)(C)(v). The regulation’s paragraph (b) lists a family member after its agency categories; neither text makes a category alone sufficient."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C041","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C041","Supported atomic finding":"A statutory certified community-based nonprofit must satisfy annual certification requirements for bonding and licensing in each State where it serves if licensing is available; the certification includes any independent audit performed since the previous certification.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(10), incorporated by (2)(C)(v). The clause does not require inventing an audit that was never performed."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C042","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C042","Supported atomic finding":"The current regulation’s preferred nonprofit phrase, “licensed by the State, or bonded,” does not reproduce the statute’s bonding-and-available-licensing requirement. The 2004 enacted change was authenticated.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2021(b)(1); S001, §405(j)(10); S016, §102(a)(1), (3), §105(a). No silent harmonization or actual organizational qualification is made. \necfr.gov\n+2"},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C043","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C043","Supported atomic finding":"A conviction under the identified Social Security criminal provisions is a disqualification; the selected clauses state no exception to that particular bar.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(2)(B)(i)(III), (C)(i)(I); S002, §404.2022(a): Act §§208, 811, 1632 / 42 USC §§408, 1011, 1383a. Offense elements and actual convictions are held."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C044","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C044","Supported atomic finding":"Another offense resulting in imprisonment for more than one year is restricted. The statute permits SSA to determine certification appropriate notwithstanding the conviction; the regulation requires that the conviction’s nature pose no risk and that the exception serve the beneficiary’s best interests.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(2)(B)(i)(IV), (C)(i)(IV); S002, §404.2022(b). Exactly one year does not satisfy this particular “more than” threshold, though another bar may apply."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C045","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C045","Supported atomic finding":"A person whose own Title II, VIII, or XVI benefits are paid through a payee is restricted. The statute expressly specifies overlap with the period in which that person would serve as another’s payee.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(2)(C)(i)(VII); S002, §404.2022(c). This is not a lifetime bar based on any historical use of a payee."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C046","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C046","Supported atomic finding":"Prior misuse is restricted. The regulatory exception requires all of: direct payment not in the beneficiary’s best interests; no suitable alternative; appointment in best interests; present suitability; and repayment or a repayment plan. Performance must be evaluated at least every three months until SSA is satisfied there is no risk to the beneficiary’s best interests.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2022(d)(1)–(5); S001, §405(j)(2)(C)(i)(II), (ii). A plan is not a finding that repayment occurred."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C047","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C047","Supported atomic finding":"A creditor is one providing goods or services for consideration. Regulatory exceptions require no risk and no substantial financial conflict, plus a listed category: same-household relative; guardian/legal representative; licensed/certified care facility; qualified fee-authorized organization; facility administrator/owner/employee where the beneficiary lives and no alternative can be located; or another individual supported by a written determination.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2022(e)(1)–(6), both examples. The fee-authorized category retains its unexamined §404.2040a predicate; no fee entitlement is inferred."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C048","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C048","Supported atomic finding":"The statute additionally states good-faith alternative-payee efforts in its facility/person clause. Its residual individual-creditor exception requires no risk, no substantial conflict, and no other more suitable payee.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(2)(C)(iii)(IV)–(V), (iv). The exact reach of the facility wording beyond its clause is not judicially resolved here."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C049","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C049","Supported atomic finding":"The statute bars the category incorporated from §402(x)(1)(A)(iv): fleeing to avoid prosecution, or custody/confinement after conviction, for the specified felony/attempt category; where the jurisdiction does not define felony, the clause uses punishment by death or imprisonment exceeding one year, regardless of actual sentence.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(2)(B)(i)(V), (C)(i)(V); S005, §402(x)(1)(A)(iv), complete adjacent (A)–(B) read. The regulation’s list omits this express statutory category. A warrant, accusation, probation issue, or label alone is not classified here."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C050","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C050","Supported atomic finding":"The listed-felony restriction covers conviction, not subsequently exonerated, under Federal or State law for the listed categories, including attempt or conspiracy: trafficking; false imprisonment; kidnapping; rape/sexual assault; first-degree homicide; robbery; government-assistance fraud; fraud by scheme; government-fund/property theft; abuse/neglect; forgery; identity theft/fraud.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(2)(B)(i)(VII), (iv), (C)(i)(VI); S002, §404.2022(f). The statute authorizes additional felony categories by regulation. The selected regulation does not repeat the exoneration phrase."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C051","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C051","Supported atomic finding":"Listed exceptions concern custodial parent of a minor; custodial spouse; custodial parent of a beneficiary whose incorporated disability began before 22; custodial court-appointed guardian; custodial grandparent of a minor; parent previously payee for a minor now 18 and continuing eligible; or a presidential/gubernatorial pardon. The statute removes the specified listed-felony inquiry and allows a best-interest exemption. The regulation says conviction alone does not bar these categories, while retaining criminal-history and other-disqualification review.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(2)(C)(vi)(I)–(II); S002, §404.2022(f)(1)–(3); S006, §423(d). None is automatic appointment or exemption from every screening rule."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C052","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C052","Supported atomic finding":"The listed Title 18 references identify offense categories; this pass does not determine offense elements, equivalence of a particular State offense, exoneration, pardon effect beyond the stated exception, or constitutional/judicial treatment.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(2)(B)(iv)(I)–(XII). Next inquiry would be a separately scoped public-law examination of the precise incorporated category, not a record search. \nuscode.house.gov\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C053","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C053","Supported atomic finding":"Before certification to a payee, SSA must investigate, include a face-to-face interview to the extent practicable, and have adequate evidence that certification serves the beneficiary’s interests.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(2)(A)(i)–(ii). These are SSA duties, not findings that an investigation occurred."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C054","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C054","Supported atomic finding":"The regulation’s investigation includes interview; documented identity with the stated recent-benefit-application exception; SSN/EIN verification; specified Social Security convictions; prior misuse revocation; agency-record checks of employment/direct benefits; verification of concern; relationship/care information; creditor status; and an individual applicant’s criminal background check.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2024(a)(1)–(10). No screening, identity entry, or record access occurred in this pass."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C055","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C055","Supported atomic finding":"Statutory investigation also expressly addresses other offenses producing imprisonment over one year, the incorporated fleeing category, prior misuse across the identified titles, and nonexonerated listed felonies. SSA may conduct a background check and may disqualify an applicant refusing permission; it may revoke certification for a serving individual covered by the stated January 1, 2019 provision who refuses permission.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(2)(B)(i), (v). The statutory authority is not authorization for this researcher to run a check."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C056","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C056","Supported atomic finding":"After a face-to-face interview, another is not required if the applicant remains qualified and currently serves, unless SSA determines another necessary based on performance and reporting compliance. Undue hardship can make an interview impracticable; “great distance” is an example without a mileage threshold.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2024(b)–(c). Investigation itself is not thereby waived."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C057","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C057","Supported atomic finding":"The statute requires an agency centralized file, periodically updated, including specified misuse revocations/terminations on or after January 1, 1991 and specified Social Security convictions.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(2)(B)(ii). This is an internal administrative requirement, not a public roster or permission to search one."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C058","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C058","Supported atomic finding":"The statute’s law-enforcement disclosure clause requires an officer’s written request, identification sufficient to establish the person, and notifications about the incorporated fleeing category, necessity to duties, and location/apprehension duties; it preserves the named tax/confidentiality exceptions.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(2)(B)(iii), including 26 USC §6103 and 42 USC §1306(c) exceptions. Those privacy regimes are not completed here; no request was made."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C059","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C059","Supported atomic finding":"Current §404.2026 says SSA conducts a criminal background check on an appointed individual at least once every five years. The 2018 periodic-review mandate expressly excepts individuals granted the specified statutory exemption.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2026; S015, §202(f); S024. The difference in expressed scope is retained; organizational monitoring is not inferred from this rule."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C060","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C060","Supported atomic finding":"Under §404.2025, SSA may request information about continuing relationship, care responsibility, and benefit use at any time after selection. Failure within a reasonable period may stop payments to that payee, unless SSA accepts the reason and subsequently receives the information. SSA then considers direct payment under §404.2011 while seeking a new payee.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2025. This is not automatic termination of underlying entitlement or automatic direct-payment restoration."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C061","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C061","Supported atomic finding":"The statutory annual-accountability default has State-institution, specified Federal-institution, and specified family-payee exceptions. Family exceptions distinguish same-household minor parent/guardian, same-household parent of an incorporated disabled beneficiary, and spouse. SSA determines exception eligibility; suspected misuse permits a report at any time despite those exceptions.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(3)(A)–(E); S015, §102(a), (d). This narrow read prevents converting §404.2025 into a universal annual-report claim."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C062","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C062","Supported atomic finding":"For failure to submit a report required under §405(j)(3)(A) or (E), the statute permits an in-person payment-receipt requirement only after notice to both the payee and the entitled individual.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(3)(F). This separate response is not identical to §404.2025’s stated consequence."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C063","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C063","Supported atomic finding":"If SSA or a competent court determines misuse under the specified titles, §405(j)(1)(A) directs prompt revocation of certification to that payee and certification to another payee or direct payment when in the individual’s interest.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(1)(A), second sentence; misuse definition in (j)(9). Full removal, recovery, restitution, and reissuance consequences remain held."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C064","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C064","Supported atomic finding":"Under §404.2055, SSA makes direct payment when the beneficiary shows mental and physical ability to manage or direct management. Listed supporting evidence includes a physician/medical-officer statement, a certified rights-restoration order where previously adjudged incompetent, or other evidence establishing ability.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2055(a)–(c). A request, diagnosis change, or unsupported statement does not itself establish the required showing."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C065","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C065","Supported atomic finding":"Agency instructions recognize that appointment of a guardian/conservator does not necessarily establish legal incompetence, and that SSA need not appoint the guardian as payee. A later-appointed guardian is selected only if the guardian can better serve the beneficiary’s interests.","Exact authority and scope":"S009, GN 00502.139(A)(1), (B)(1)–(2); S002, §§404.2001(b)(2), .2020. State-law effects remain held."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C066","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C066","Supported atomic finding":"A power-of-attorney or other representative label is not itself SSA payee appointment. The POMS requires separate payee application/capability consideration for that role; the selected public texts do not establish authority over other assets or debts.","Exact authority and scope":"S009, GN 00502.139(A)(6), (B)(5); S002, §§404.2001, .2020, .2024. Full Treasury and State agency-law rules are not adopted."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C067","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C067","Supported atomic finding":"The POMS contains an unusual voluntary-conservator route where no incapability finding has been made: beneficiary request, proof of court appointment, and payee application; contrary best-interest evidence requires direct payment or further development.","Exact authority and scope":"S009, GN 00502.139(A)(5), (B)(4). Its “without further payee development” phrase is not treated here as a waiver of statutory §405(j)(2) requirements; the extent of that instruction requires clarification before application. \necfr.gov\n+2"},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C068","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C068","Supported atomic finding":"Written advance notice precedes certification/actual appointment. Statute and regulation route it to the beneficiary except the stated categories—under 15, unemancipated minor under 18, or legally incompetent—where it goes to the legal guardian or legal representative.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(2)(E)(ii); S002, §404.2030(a). The categories are alternatives; no actual recipient is identified."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C069","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C069","Supported atomic finding":"Notice must use understandable language, identify the selected payee, explain rights to challenge the need for a payee and the particular selection, and explain evidence review and submission of additional evidence.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(2)(E)(iii); S002, §404.2030(a)(1)–(5). This is not a completed notice or proof of service."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C070","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C070","Supported atomic finding":"If advance notice was mailed and a protest or appeal is made within ten days after receipt, SSA delays the action until deciding the protest or appeal. If notice was received and signed at the local field office, the regulation says the decision is effective immediately.","Exact authority and scope":"S002, §404.2030(b)(1)–(2). This is a conditional action-delay rule, not an unconditional stay of all decisions or a promise of continuing direct payment."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C071","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C071","Supported atomic finding":"Whether benefits will be paid through a representative payee and who will act as payee are listed initial determinations. The introductory rule requires a preponderance of evidence and reasons/facts for conclusions.","Exact authority and scope":"S004, §404.902 introductory text, (o), (q); “preponderance” in §404.901. No evidentiary weighing occurs here."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C072","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C072","Supported atomic finding":"Denial of an applicant’s request to become a representative payee is listed as not an initial determination. The regulation allows agency review but excludes Subpart J review for those administrative actions.","Exact authority and scope":"S004, §404.903 introductory text, (c). This is distinct from a beneficiary challenging SSA’s choice. It is not a completed constitutional or all-remedies analysis."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C073","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C073","Supported atomic finding":"Initial-determination notice generally is written and mailed to the last known address, explains reasons/effect and reconsideration rights, and is binding unless timely reconsidered or revised. The section has additional disability-notice and death-related qualifications not converted into payee-specific rules.","Exact authority and scope":"S004, §§404.904–.905. Actual address, mailing, receipt, and decision are absent."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C074","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C074","Supported atomic finding":"A dissatisfied beneficiary may request reconsideration; another person must show in writing that the determination may adversely affect that person’s rights.","Exact authority and scope":"S004, §404.908(a)–(b), read with §404.903(c). Applicant disappointment alone is not assumed to establish this right."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C075","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C075","Supported atomic finding":"Reconsideration requires a written request within 60 days after receipt of the initial-determination notice, or an extended period. An extension request must be written, explain lateness, and satisfy good cause. The rule identifies permitted filing locations, with a ten-year railroad-service condition for the Railroad Retirement Board alternative.","Exact authority and scope":"S004, §404.909(a)–(b). This is a legal description, not a filing instruction or calculated deadline."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C076","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C076","Supported atomic finding":"For Subpart J, receipt means five days after the date on the notice unless the person shows it was not received within that period.","Exact authority and scope":"S004, §404.901. This limited definition is not silently transposed into every notice under every SSA program or into an independently computed §404.2030 deadline."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C077","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C077","Supported atomic finding":"Good cause considers preventing circumstances, misleading agency action, misunderstanding arising from legal changes, and physical, mental, educational, or linguistic limitations. Examples include serious illness, family death/illness, accidental record loss, diligent attempts to obtain information, requested explanation, wrong agency information, nonreceipt, good-faith delivery to another agency, and unusual/unavoidable circumstances.","Exact authority and scope":"S004, §404.911(a)(1)–(4), (b)(1)–(9). Examples are nonexclusive and require a decision; none is automatic."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C078","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C078","Supported atomic finding":"The requested-explanation example specifies 60 days after receiving the explanation for reconsideration/hearing, and 30 days for Appeals Council review/civil suit, after a timely request for explanation.","Exact authority and scope":"S004, §404.911(b)(5). These are conditions in a good-cause example, not universal replacement appeal periods."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C079","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C079","Supported atomic finding":"SSR 91-5p addresses evidence that mental incapacity prevented timely review and absence of someone legally responsible for prosecuting the claim at the prior action. If its substantive criteria are met, elapsed reopening time does not foreclose good cause; adjudicators consider the stated contemporaneous factors, assist qualifying unrepresented claimants, and resolve reasonable doubt favorably.","Exact authority and scope":"S013, Policy Interpretation. This is not an automatic extension based on illness, payee status, or current incapacity, and not a favorable merits determination."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C080","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C080","Supported atomic finding":"Ordinary reconsideration is a case review allowing additional evidence, decided by the reviewing official. A separate medical-disability-cessation hearing rule is expressly distinguished.","Exact authority and scope":"S004, §§404.907, .913(a)–(b). A payee-capability disagreement is not automatically a disability-cessation proceeding."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C081","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C081","Supported atomic finding":"Section 405(j)(2)(E)(i) provides hearing rights to the extent of §405(b) and judicial review of the final decision under §405(g). The latter concerns a final decision after a hearing to which the individual was a party.","Exact authority and scope":"S001, §405(j)(2)(E)(i), (b)(1), (g), all identified bodies read. Full exhaustion, judicial filing/counting, remedies, and later case law remain held; no judicial due date is asserted."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C082","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C082","Supported atomic finding":"POMS advance-notice instructions distinguish initial/change appointments, continuation after attaining 18, specified resumption after six or more months of nonpayment, and reentitlement. They distinguish beneficiary notice, former-payee final notice, current-payee input, and special guardian/parent recipients.","Exact authority and scope":"S010, GN 00503.100(A), (E). Foreign-residence and certain parent/proposed-payee exceptions appear in the instructions; their complete legal foundation is not resolved from the selected statute/regulation."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C083","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C083","Supported atomic finding":"POMS appeal instructions identify legally competent adults, certain guardians, emancipated minors, parents subject to termination-of-parental-rights qualifications, persons standing in a parent’s place, authorized representatives, and voluntary conservators. It separately lists non-initial actions, including an applicant’s own nonselection and specified legal-incompetence/minor-need decisions.","Exact authority and scope":"S011, GN 00503.110(A)–(B), including exceptions. Those instructions do not eliminate the need to identify the actual decision, legal role, and governing statutory/regulatory review provision."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C084","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C084","Supported atomic finding":"POMS distinguishes an informal protest from formal reconsideration. Formal treatment requires a written protest, a beneficiary or authorized acting person, and an initial-determination issue. A dispute received before effectuation is to be resolved before processing the appointment, with review by an uninvolved authorized employee.","Exact authority and scope":"S012, GN 00503.120(A)–(D). Direct payment is described only “if possible,” not guaranteed. Revised selection requires renewed advance-notice treatment."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C085","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C085","Supported atomic finding":"The instruction’s evidence-review procedure distinguishes eligible reviewing roles and contains a medical-disclosure hazard qualification requiring a separate disclosure decision.","Exact authority and scope":"S012, GN 00503.120(E)(3). No actual file, medical evidence, authorization, or records request was accessed or created."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C086","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C086","Supported atomic finding":"Neither objecting, requesting review, submitting evidence, nor receiving an extension by itself establishes reversal, appointment of a preferred person, direct-payment restoration, continuing payment, or substantive benefit entitlement.","Exact authority and scope":"Bounded consequence of S001, §405(j)(2)(E); S002, §§404.2030, .2055; S004, §§404.909–.913; S013. \necfr.gov\n+6"},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C087","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C087","Supported atomic finding":"Investigation, agency files, notification, and review requirements describe agency administration; they are not evidence that any investigation, appointment, notice, objection, or screening occurred.","Exact authority and limit":"S001, §405(j)(2); S002, §§404.2024–.2025, .2030. No actual records were supplied."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C088","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C088","Supported atomic finding":"Material wording differences include nonprofit “or” versus statutory certification; the omitted fleeing bar; statutory exoneration wording; creditor safeguards; DAA “or” versus “and” within §404.2011; and statutory exceptions to periodic review not expressed in §404.2026.","Exact authority and limit":"S001–S002, S015–S016. The detailed difference table below preserves their exact limits rather than announcing a judicial reconciliation."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C089","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C089","Supported atomic finding":"The selected appointment/selection provisions do not complete fund use, debt payment, account titling, conservation, fees, misuse recovery, removal, death, overpayment, exemption, tax, or collection law.","Exact authority and limit":"S002, structure of Subpart U, particularly downstream §§404.2035–.2065; S001, downstream §405(j) clauses. Pointers below are not findings on those topics."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C090","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C090","Supported atomic finding":"The authenticated history is selective. Current compilation labels and source credits cannot establish that all intervening or later enactments, corrections, rulings, or judicial developments were examined.","Exact authority and limit":"S001–S028, read limits and failure log."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C091","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C091","Supported atomic finding":"The 1982 final rule stated effectiveness July 14, 1982. The 1989 final rule, effective August 28, 1989, changed the near-adult initial-application example from four months to seven months.","Exact authority and limit":"S018–S019, date clauses and complete selected amendatory text. Four months is historical, not the current rule."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C092","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C092","Supported atomic finding":"The 2004 final rule stated effectiveness November 8, 2004 and supplied the selected substantial-harm, restriction, investigation, reporting, and notice amendments.","Exact authority and limit":"S020, dates and Title II instructions 2–9."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C093","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C093","Supported atomic finding":"The 2006 and 2008 government-hosted XML bodies state November 17, 2006 and December 10, 2008 effectiveness, respectively, but their official original-publication endpoints were not successfully read.","Exact authority and limit":"S021–S022. Those historical authentication claims remain partial, although the current regulatory clauses are readable in S002/S003."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C094","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C094","Supported atomic finding":"The 1996 Act replaced the special DAA payee wording and related preference/deferral references. Its selected payee amendments apply to benefit applications filed after the third month following the enactment month.","Exact authority and limit":"S017, §105(a)(2), (a)(5)(B). This historical application condition is not a present application deadline."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C095","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C095","Supported atomic finding":"The 2004 Act changed nonprofit certification and added imprisonment/fleeing screening. The selected §102 and §103 amendments use the first day of the thirteenth month beginning after enactment as their effective trigger. Section 105 redesignated the nonprofit definition to paragraph (10), with its own stated misuse-related application provision.","Exact authority and limit":"S016, §§102(a)(1), (3), 103(a), (d), 105(a), (d). Different provisions’ triggers are not merged."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C096","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C096","Supported atomic finding":"The 2018 family-accounting exceptions took effect on enactment.","Exact authority and limit":"S015, §102(a), (d). The exception’s substantive predicates still must be established."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C097","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C097","Supported atomic finding":"The 2018 advance-designation section states effectiveness two years after enactment, requires regulations within 18 months, and requires notification of designations by January 1, 2020 and annually thereafter.","Exact authority and limit":"S015, §201(a)–(d). These distinct legislative duties are not an applicant’s deadline."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C098","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C098","Supported atomic finding":"The 2018 listed-felony amendments apply to new appointments on or after January 1, 2019. Prior individual payees were subject to review by January 1, 2024; absent the specified exception, the bar applies on/after SSA’s conviction determination. The transition prioritizes those serving at least 15, then unrelated beneficiaries, then beneficiaries at least 18 who are not the payee’s spouse.","Exact authority and limit":"S015, §202(d)–(e). The historical review deadline does not prove any review actually occurred."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C099","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C099","Supported atomic finding":"The 2018 Act required periodic-review regulations within one year, with review not less often than every five years, except specified granted exemptions.","Exact authority and limit":"S015, §202(f); current §404.2026 in S002."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C100","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C100","Supported atomic finding":"The 2018 own-payee bar applies to new appointments on/after January 1, 2019. For prior serving payees whose own benefits were representative-paid as of that date, SSA was directed to terminate service as soon as possible, no later than January 1, 2024.","Exact authority and limit":"S015, §203(a), (d). This does not establish an actual termination or appointment history."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C101","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C101","Supported atomic finding":"The 2019 final rule became effective March 18, 2019. The October 25 correcting amendment, applicable beginning March 18, expressly narrowed criminal-background-check wording to individuals rather than organizations.","Exact authority and limit":"S023–S024, complete selected Title II amendments."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C102","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C102","Supported atomic finding":"The advance-designation regulation was published February 11, 2020 and states effectiveness February 25, 2020. That is distinct from the 2018 Act’s two-year effective trigger.","Exact authority and limit":"S025, dates and Title II amendments; S015, §201(b). No identical-date assumption is made."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C103","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C103","Supported atomic finding":"The accessed 2026 amendment to §405 changes subsection (r), not the selected subsection (j), and is future-effective December 27, 2026.","Exact authority and limit":"S026, complete §2(a)–(c). A current code page displaying it does not make it operative on the check date."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C104","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C104","Supported atomic finding":"Current §402.160(b)(1) states that SSRs are published under the Commissioner’s authority and bind SSA components. That is different from asserting that POMS is a statute or that an SSR binds courts.","Exact authority and limit":"S014, §402.160(b)(1); S013 for the specific ruling. Full later-status and judicial treatment remain unreviewed."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false},{"claim_id":"R075-P1-C105","area_numbers":[75],"area_assignment_method":"task_scope_fallback","researcher_record":{"Claim ID":"R075-P1-C105","Supported atomic finding":"Failed endpoints establish access limitations only. They do not establish repeal, absence of an edition, bad credentials, a model limit, or authorization to bypass access controls.","Exact authority and limit":"Source-read/failure log below; S003, S005–S006, S021–S022, S028."},"coordinator_verification_status":"whole_report_reviewed_selected_primary_checks_only_see_exact_source_read_bounds","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_full_primary_acceptance":false}],"sources":[{"source_id":"R075-P1-S001","urls":["https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s405/","https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s405/?utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"R075-P1-S001","Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Office of the Law Revision Counsel, 42 USC §405, Evidence, procedure, and certification for payments. https://uscode.house.gov/us/usc/119-134/t42/s405/","Displayed version and legal status":"Displayed compilation through Public Law 119-134, October 20, 2026. Statutory codification, with separate editorial, amendment, and effective-date notes.","Exact read extent, effectiveness, and limits":"Complete substantive review of §405(j)(1); (2)(A)–(E), all nested clauses; (3)(A)–(F); (8), (9), (10), and (11). Also read §405(a), (b)(1), and (g). Sections (j)(3)(G)–(H) were read only to identify administrative-file/list boundaries. Other downstream passages were exposed during retrieval but were not adopted as a complete administration/remedies dossier. Selected 1996, 2004, 2018, and 2026 notes checked against the enacted instruments listed below. No whole-§405 or whole-§405(j) certification. \nuscode.house.gov\n+2"},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_primary_bodies_checked","coordinator_read_bounds":"Complete current selected405(j)(1),(2)(A)-(E),(3)(A)-(F),(8)-(11);a,b1also read. Remainingjregimes and completegnotfreshlyreopened;incidental later passages not adopted. October20,2026banner. 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No FOIA procedure, request, or records access was pursued. \necfr.gov\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"not_freshly_reopened","coordinator_read_bounds":"Researcher-attributed finding/access only; no fresh primary verification of this group/history/currentness/application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-28T05:52:36.611700+00:00"},{"source_id":"R075-P1-S027","urls":["https://uscode.house.gov/currency.html","https://uscode.house.gov/classification/tbl119cd_2nd.html","https://uscode.house.gov/currency.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com","https://uscode.house.gov/classification/tbl119cd_2nd.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"R075-P1-S027","Issuer, title, and complete literal HTTPS URL":"OLRC, Currency and Updating and 119th Congress, second-session Classification Table. https://uscode.house.gov/currency.html; https://uscode.house.gov/classification/tbl119cd_2nd.html","Displayed version and legal status":"Currency page: Public Law 119-134, October 20, 2026. 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Agency operating instructions, not enacted statutory or regulatory text.","Exact read extent and limits":"Complete A–D read. Presumption, evidence, participation, and direct-payment instructions used within their stated context. A batch date is not a new effective date. \n01/26/2017"},"coordinator_verification_status":"not_freshly_reopened","coordinator_read_bounds":"Researcher-attributed finding/access only; no fresh primary verification of this group/history/currentness/application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-28T05:52:36.611700+00:00"},{"source_id":"R075-P1-S008","urls":["https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502020","https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502020?utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"R075-P1-S008","Issuer, title, complete literal HTTPS URL":"SSA POMS, GN 00502.020—Determining Capability—Adult Beneficiaries. https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502020","Displayed instruction version/status":"TN 78 (03-23); revision June 10, 2022; batch June 8, 2026. Agency instructions.","Exact read extent and limits":"Complete A–C read. Used for management versus directing management, evidence, and the prohibition on treating diagnosis alone as incapability. No medical or functional assessment performed. \n06/10/2022"},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_primary_bodies_checked","coordinator_read_bounds":"CompleteGN00502.020A-Cincludingvoluntaryconservatorqualification,selfdirectionandinstruction-levelmandatorylay/availablemedicalevidence. TN78,revisionJune10,2022/batchJune8,2026;incorporatedPOMSnotreopened.","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-28T05:52:36.611700+00:00"},{"source_id":"R075-P1-S009","urls":["https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502139","https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502139?utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"R075-P1-S009","Issuer, title, complete literal HTTPS URL":"SSA POMS, GN 00502.139—Additional Development/Considerations When Guardian Involved. https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200502139","Displayed instruction version/status":"TN 84 (05-23); revision April 15, 2016; batch July 17, 2026. Agency instructions.","Exact read extent and limits":"Complete A–C, including guardian, statutory guardian, custody, voluntary conservator, and power-of-attorney discussions. State-law digests and Treasury-payment cross-references not read. The instructions are not a complete statement of State guardianship or agency law. \n04/15/2016"},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_primary_bodies_checked","coordinator_read_bounds":"CompleteGN00502.139A-C,includingguardian,custody,voluntaryconservatorandPOAinstruction;TN84/revisionApril15,2016/batchJuly17,2026. NoState/Treasuryunderlyingbodies orsystemrecords accessed.","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-28T05:52:36.611700+00:00"},{"source_id":"R075-P1-S010","urls":["https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503100","https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503100?utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"R075-P1-S010","Issuer, title, complete literal HTTPS URL":"SSA POMS, GN 00503.100—Advance Notice. https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503100","Displayed instruction version/status":"TN 14 (03-25); revision August 14, 2023; batch September 8, 2026. Agency instructions.","Exact read extent and limits":"Complete A–F, including recipient exceptions, agency processing, and the published example, read. No referenced notice form was filled or created. Foreign-residence and minor-recipient instructions are identified as additional instruction-level qualifications, not silently substituted for statutory text. \n08/14/2023"},"coordinator_verification_status":"not_freshly_reopened","coordinator_read_bounds":"Researcher-attributed finding/access only; no fresh primary verification of this group/history/currentness/application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-28T05:52:36.611700+00:00"},{"source_id":"R075-P1-S011","urls":["https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503110","https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503110?utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"R075-P1-S011","Issuer, title, complete literal HTTPS URL":"SSA POMS, GN 00503.110—Appeal Rights. https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503110","Displayed instruction version/status":"TN 10 (08-23); revision December 30, 2021; batch June 8, 2026. Agency instructions.","Exact read extent and limits":"Complete A–C read. Includes both appealable categories and listed non-initial determinations; no assumption that every payee-related disagreement follows the same route. \n12/30/2021"},"coordinator_verification_status":"not_freshly_reopened","coordinator_read_bounds":"Researcher-attributed finding/access only; no fresh primary verification of this group/history/currentness/application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-28T05:52:36.611700+00:00"},{"source_id":"R075-P1-S012","urls":["https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503120","https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503120?utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"R075-P1-S012","Issuer, title, complete literal HTTPS URL":"SSA POMS, GN 00503.120—Response Received to Advance Notice. https://secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/lnx/0200503120","Displayed instruction version/status":"TN 14 (03-25); revision August 14, 2023; batch September 8, 2026. Agency instructions.","Exact read extent and limits":"Complete A–F read. Formal reconsideration versus informal protest, pre-effectuation review, revised selections, and limited file-review instructions examined. Internal systems and forms were neither accessed nor used. \n08/14/2023"},"coordinator_verification_status":"not_freshly_reopened","coordinator_read_bounds":"Researcher-attributed finding/access only; no fresh primary verification of this group/history/currentness/application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-28T05:52:36.611700+00:00"},{"source_id":"R075-P1-S013","urls":["https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/oasi/33/SSR91-05-oasi-33.html","https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/oasi/33/SSR91-05-oasi-33.html?utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"R075-P1-S013","Issuer, title, complete literal HTTPS URL":"SSA, SSR 91-5p—Titles II and XVI: Mental Incapacity and Good Cause for Missing the Deadline to Request Review. https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/oasi/33/SSR91-05-oasi-33.html","Displayed instruction version/status":"Published policy-interpretation ruling; stated effective/publication date July 1, 1991. Current public SSA page examined; no exhaustive rescission or judicial-history audit claimed.","Exact read extent and limits":"Complete ruling body, including conditions, adjudicator duties, result limits, effective statement, and the separate circuit-specific cross-reference, read. The cross-referenced acquiescence ruling and judicial authorities were not investigated. Older reopening-period discussion is not adopted as a complete current reopening regime. \nssa.gov\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_primary_bodies_checked","coordinator_read_bounds":"CompleteSSR91-5prulingbodyincludingpurpose,history,policycriteria,contemporaneousfactors,reasonable-doubt/assistance,dispositions,effectivestatementandFourthCircuitexception;July1,1991publication. Norescision/judicial/acquiescencerulingaudit;oldreopeningdiscussionnotadoptedascompletecurrentregime.","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-28T05:52:36.611700+00:00"},{"source_id":"R075-P1-S015","urls":["https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ165/html/PLAW-115publ165.htm","https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ165/html/PLAW-115publ165.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"R075-P1-S015","Issuer/title and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Congress/GPO, Public Law 115-165, Strengthening Protections for Social Security Beneficiaries Act of 2018. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-115publ165/html/PLAW-115publ165.htm","Publication/enactment and status":"Enacted April 13, 2018; enacted amendatory text.","Actual read bounds; effective/application provisions":"Complete selected §102(a), (d); §201(a)–(d); §202(a), (d)–(f); §203(a), (d). Printed 132 Stat. 1260–1261, 1266–1268, 1271–1273; HTML, PDF index N/A. Other Title VIII/XVI amendments and broader oversight provisions not adopted. Detailed application triggers appear in C096–C100 and the measurement register. \ngovinfo.gov\n+3"},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_primary_bodies_checked","coordinator_read_bounds":"Complete2018section201(a)-(d),202(a),(d)-(f),203(a),(d),102(a),(d)selectedTitleIIamendments/dateclauses. Otherprogramamendmentsexposednotadopted;notwholeAct. 132Stat1260-1261,1266-1268,1271-1273officialHTML;noPDFpixels.","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-28T05:52:36.611700+00:00"},{"source_id":"R075-P1-S016","urls":["https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-108publ203/html/PLAW-108publ203.htm","https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-108publ203/html/PLAW-108publ203.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"R075-P1-S016","Issuer/title and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Congress/GPO, Public Law 108-203, Social Security Protection Act of 2004. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-108publ203/html/PLAW-108publ203.htm","Publication/enactment and status":"Enacted March 2, 2004.","Actual read bounds; effective/application provisions":"Selected complete §102(a)(1), (a)(3); §103(a), (d); §105(a), (d); §106(a) read for the reporting-notice context. Printed 118 Stat. 497–498, 500–505; HTML, index N/A. Authenticates bonding/licensing change, imprisonment/fleeing screening, and redesignation to current §405(j)(10). Full liability, fees, and overpayment regimes held. \ngovinfo.gov\n+3"},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_primary_bodies_checked","coordinator_read_bounds":"Complete2004section102(a)(1) nonprofitamendatorybody,118Stat497officialHTML. Othera3,effective/screening/redesignation/misuseprovisionsNOTfreshlyreopened;currentdefinitionseparatelyreadinS001. Noauthenticationofwhole2004history.","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-28T05:52:36.611700+00:00"},{"source_id":"R075-P1-S017","urls":["https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-104publ121/html/PLAW-104publ121.htm","https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-104publ121/html/PLAW-104publ121.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"R075-P1-S017","Issuer/title and complete literal HTTPS URL":"Congress/GPO, Public Law 104-121, Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-104publ121/html/PLAW-104publ121.htm","Publication/enactment and status":"Enacted March 29, 1996.","Actual read bounds; effective/application provisions":"Complete selected §105(a)(2)(A)–(D) and §105(a)(5)(A)–(C), printed 110 Stat. 852–853; HTML, index N/A. Used only for revised disability/DAA payee predicates and their application provision. No separate disability-entitlement transition report. \ngovinfo.gov"},"coordinator_verification_status":"not_freshly_reopened","coordinator_read_bounds":"Researcher-attributed finding/access only; no fresh primary verification of this group/history/currentness/application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-28T05:52:36.611700+00:00"},{"source_id":"R075-P1-S018","urls":["https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1982/7/14/30466-30477.pdf","https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1982/7/14/30466-30477.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"R075-P1-S018","Issuer/title and complete literal HTTPS URL":"HHS/SSA, Federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income for the Aged, Blind and Disabled; Representative Payment, final rule. https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1982/7/14/30466-30477.pdf","Publication/enactment and status":"Published and stated effective July 14, 1982. Historical adoption instrument.","Actual read bounds; effective/application provisions":"Header/dates at printed 30468, PDF index 2; complete selected original §§404.2001, .2010, .2015, .2020, .2021, .2025 at printed 30472–30473, indices 6–7. Not the whole issue slice or preamble. Original four-month language is historical. A correction cited by the current regulation was not successfully authenticated; see S028. \narchives.federalregister.gov\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"not_freshly_reopened","coordinator_read_bounds":"Researcher-attributed finding/access only; no fresh primary verification of this group/history/currentness/application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-28T05:52:36.611700+00:00"},{"source_id":"R075-P1-S019","urls":["https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1989/8/28/35482-35490.pdf","https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1989/8/28/35482-35490.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"R075-P1-S019","Issuer/title and complete literal HTTPS URL":"HHS/SSA, Treatment of Old-Age Survivors, and Disability Insurance Payments in the Aid to Families With Dependent Children Program; Direct Payment to Beneficiaries Under Age 18, final rule. https://archives.federalregister.gov/issue_slice/1989/8/28/35482-35490.pdf","Publication/enactment and status":"Published and effective August 28, 1989.","Actual read bounds; effective/application provisions":"Header, relevant explanation, and complete amendment changing §404.2010(b)(6) from four to seven months; printed 35482–35483, indices 0–1. AFDC and fund-use amendments not adopted as findings. \narchives.federalregister.gov\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"not_freshly_reopened","coordinator_read_bounds":"Researcher-attributed finding/access only; no fresh primary verification of this group/history/currentness/application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-28T05:52:36.611700+00:00"},{"source_id":"R075-P1-S020","urls":["https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2004-10-07/pdf/04-22331.pdf","https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2004-10-07/pdf/04-22331.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"R075-P1-S020","Issuer/title and complete literal HTTPS URL":"SSA, Representative Payment Under Titles II, VIII, and XVI of the Social Security Act, final rules. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2004-10-07/pdf/04-22331.pdf","Publication/enactment and status":"Published October 7, 2004; effective November 8, 2004.","Actual read bounds; effective/application provisions":"Header/dates; selected substantial-harm preamble; complete selected Title II amendatory instructions 2–9, printed 60232–60234, PDF indices 8–10, within a 17-page document printed 60224–60240. Whole preamble and other-title amendments not claimed read. \ngovinfo.gov\n+3"},"coordinator_verification_status":"not_freshly_reopened","coordinator_read_bounds":"Researcher-attributed finding/access only; no fresh primary verification of this group/history/currentness/application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-28T05:52:36.611700+00:00"},{"source_id":"R075-P1-S021","urls":["https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2006/10/18/E6-17320/representative-payment-policies-and-administrative-procedure-for-imposing-penalties-for-false-or","https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2006/10/18/E6-17320/representative-payment-policies-and-administrative-procedure-for-imposing-penalties-for-false-or?utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"R075-P1-S021","Issuer/title and complete literal HTTPS URL":"SSA/OFR, Representative Payment Policies and Administrative Procedure for Imposing Penalties for False or Misleading Statements or Withholding of Information. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2006/10/18/E6-17320/representative-payment-policies-and-administrative-procedure-for-imposing-penalties-for-false-or","Publication/enactment and status":"Published October 18, 2006, 71 FR 61403; displayed effective November 17, 2006. Government-hosted XML rendition expressly says it is not the official legal edition.","Actual read bounds; effective/application provisions":"Complete selected amendatory instruction 4, printed locator 61407, adding the imprisonment restriction and relettering §404.2022, read in XML. Official PDF/HTML attempts failed. Thus the original-publication authentication remains partial; current regulatory wording is independently readable in S002/S003, which are versions of the regulation, not corroborating originals of this rule. \nfederalregister.gov\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"not_freshly_reopened","coordinator_read_bounds":"Researcher-attributed finding/access only; no fresh primary verification of this group/history/currentness/application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-28T05:52:36.611700+00:00"},{"source_id":"R075-P1-S022","urls":["https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/11/10/E8-26680/representative-payment-under-titles-ii-viii-and-xvi-of-the-social-security-act","https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/11/10/E8-26680/representative-payment-under-titles-ii-viii-and-xvi-of-the-social-security-act?utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"R075-P1-S022","Issuer/title and complete literal HTTPS URL":"SSA/OFR, Representative Payment Under Titles II, VIII and XVI of the Social Security Act. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2008/11/10/E8-26680/representative-payment-under-titles-ii-viii-and-xvi-of-the-social-security-act","Publication/enactment and status":"Published November 10, 2008, 73 FR 66520; displayed effective December 10, 2008. Unofficial XML rendition of a final rule.","Actual read bounds; effective/application provisions":"Complete selected Title II amendatory instruction 2, §404.2024(a)(1), (b), (c), and material explanation; printed locator 66521. Official PDF/HTML attempts failed; no PDF index is claimed. \nfederalregister.gov\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"not_freshly_reopened","coordinator_read_bounds":"Researcher-attributed finding/access only; no fresh primary verification of this group/history/currentness/application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-28T05:52:36.611700+00:00"},{"source_id":"R075-P1-S023","urls":["https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-02-15/pdf/2019-02483.pdf","https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-02-15/pdf/2019-02483.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"R075-P1-S023","Issuer/title and complete literal HTTPS URL":"SSA, Prohibiting Persons With Certain Criminal Convictions From Serving as Representative Payees, final rule. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-02-15/pdf/2019-02483.pdf","Publication/enactment and status":"Published February 15, 2019; effective March 18, 2019.","Actual read bounds; effective/application provisions":"Header/dates and complete Title II amendatory instructions 1–5, principally printed 4325, PDF index 2; document printed 4323–4326, indices 0–3. Other-title amendments and complete preamble not claimed read. \ngovinfo.gov\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"not_freshly_reopened","coordinator_read_bounds":"Researcher-attributed finding/access only; no fresh primary verification of this group/history/currentness/application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-28T05:52:36.611700+00:00"},{"source_id":"R075-P1-S024","urls":["https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-10-25/pdf/2019-23235.pdf","https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-10-25/pdf/2019-23235.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"R075-P1-S024","Issuer/title and complete literal HTTPS URL":"SSA, same subject, correcting amendment. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-10-25/pdf/2019-23235.pdf","Publication/enactment and status":"Published/effective October 25, 2019; stated applicable beginning March 18, 2019.","Actual read bounds; effective/application provisions":"Complete material explanation and Title II instructions 1–3, printed 57319–57320, indices 0–1. Corrects the individual-versus-organization scope of §§404.2024(a)(10) and .2026. \ngovinfo.gov"},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_primary_bodies_checked","coordinator_read_bounds":"Complete2019correctingamendmentdates,materialexplanationandTitleIIinstructions1-3,57319PDF0;neighborhood/other-titleamendmentsnotadopted. Typographic83FR4323referenceinexplanationnotrewrittenasfinalrulevolume. 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Not the entire preamble or parallel Title VIII/XVI regime. \ngovinfo.gov\n+1"},"coordinator_verification_status":"selected_primary_bodies_checked","coordinator_read_bounds":"2020ruleheader/datesandcompleteTitleIIinstructions1-4,7664-7665/PDF3-4;complete2018statutorytwo-yeartriggerseparatelyread. 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Used only to distinguish a displayed 2026 amendment from an operative amendment to this component. \ngovinfo.gov"},"coordinator_verification_status":"not_freshly_reopened","coordinator_read_bounds":"Researcher-attributed finding/access only; no fresh primary verification of this group/history/currentness/application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-28T05:52:36.611700+00:00"},{"source_id":"R075-P1-S028","urls":["https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/47-FR-32936"],"researcher_record":{"Source ID":"R075-P1-S028","Issuer/title and complete literal HTTPS URL":"OFR, attempted 47 FR 32936, July 30, 1982 correction. https://www.federalregister.gov/citation/47-FR-32936","Publication/enactment and status":"Citation appears in current §404.2021’s source history; original body not obtained.","Actual read bounds; effective/application provisions":"Failed access; no substantive proposition rests on the correction’s presumed contents. The 1982 original’s printed/OCR wording and current “authorized social agency” wording differ; the current text is established by S002/S003, but this correction link in the history remains unverified."},"coordinator_verification_status":"not_freshly_reopened","coordinator_read_bounds":"Researcher-attributed finding/access only; no fresh primary verification of this group/history/currentness/application","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]","coordinator_checked_at":"2026-10-28T05:52:36.611700+00:00"}],"coverage":[{"topic":"Q1-a — Every section present in requested range","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q1-a — Every section present in requested range","Status and finding":"Answered. Complete inventory and full selected reads.","Claim/source/branch links":"C002; S002–S003; §2 inventory","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No application facts sought."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q1-b — Nested exceptions/examples/notes","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q1-b — Nested exceptions/examples/notes","Status and finding":"Answered for current selected regulations. Both substantial-harm and creditor examples read.","Claim/source/branch links":"C011–C029, C043–C056","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Original correction history remains partial under Q8."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q1-c — Necessary §405(j) clauses","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q1-c — Necessary §405(j) clauses","Status and finding":"Answered with explicit bounds. Complete relevant selection/notice clauses and narrow safeguards read.","Claim/source/branch links":"S001; C003, C023, C030–C063","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Other §405(j) regimes expressly identified as uncompleted."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q1-d — Exact unread remainder","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q1-d — Exact unread remainder","Status and finding":"Answered. Read-versus-exposed-versus-held distinction supplied.","Claim/source/branch links":"§1 read-bound statement","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No claim of whole-§405(j) review."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q1-e — Publication/version/legal status","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q1-e — Publication/version/legal status","Status and finding":"Answered with currentness limits.","Claim/source/branch links":"C001–C004, C090, C103–C105; S001–S028","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Complete later-law/judicial audit not performed."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q2-a — Title II versus XVI","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q2-a — Title II versus XVI","Status and finding":"Answered. Cross-title screens bounded.","Claim/source/branch links":"C005; B001; S001–S002","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Separate SSI provisions are next inquiry only if authorized."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q2-b — Beneficiary/payee/direct payment","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q2-b — Beneficiary/payee/direct payment","Status and finding":"Answered. SSA-selected payment role distinguished from entitlement and assistance.","Claim/source/branch links":"C006–C010; B002","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"All actual program/decision facts absent."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q2-c — Capability/legal incompetence/age","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q2-c — Capability/legal incompetence/age","Status and finding":"Answered. Distinct tests, categories, and exceptions.","Claim/source/branch links":"C009–C029; B003–B009; M001–M006","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No individual age, adjudication, or ability facts."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q2-d — Guardian/legal representative/organization","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q2-d — Guardian/legal representative/organization","Status and finding":"Answered with State-law hold.","Claim/source/branch links":"C033, C036–C042, C065–C067; B010–B014","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Full State-law powers and Treasury rules not investigated."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q3-a — Legal/medical/lay evidence","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q3-a — Legal/medical/lay evidence","Status and finding":"Answered. Full §404.2015 and material POMS read.","Claim/source/branch links":"C018–C022; S002, S007–S009; B005","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No evidence evaluated."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q3-b — Manage OR direct management","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q3-b — Manage OR direct management","Status and finding":"Answered. Direction capability expressly retained.","Claim/source/branch links":"C008, C022, C064; B006","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No functional assessment permitted or needed."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q3-c — Continued direct payment","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q3-c — Continued direct payment","Status and finding":"Answered. Existing-payment and interim-selection settings separated.","Claim/source/branch links":"C010, C024–C029; B007–B009","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No actual payment stage or harm finding."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q3-d — Presumptions/safeguards","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q3-d — Presumptions/safeguards","Status and finding":"Answered with textual differences held.","Claim/source/branch links":"C021, C025–C029, C088","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No universal presumption beyond its specific context."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q4-a — Investigation/application process","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q4-a — Investigation/application process","Status and finding":"Answered generically.","Claim/source/branch links":"C053–C058; S001–S002; B019","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No screening or application was performed."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q4-b — Preference orders by category","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q4-b — Preference orders by category","Status and finding":"Answered. Complete adult, minor, and special statutory lists supplied.","Claim/source/branch links":"C036–C042; B010–B012","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No category or best-interest application."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q4-c — Mandatory/discretionary distinctions","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q4-c — Mandatory/discretionary distinctions","Status and finding":"Answered. Preferences, bars, exceptions, and SSA discretion separated.","Claim/source/branch links":"C037–C059","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Actual suitability remains unknown."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q4-d — Creditor/institution safeguards","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q4-d — Creditor/institution safeguards","Status and finding":"Answered as text; reconciliation partial.","Claim/source/branch links":"C047–C048; B014; difference table","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Exact disputed reach of facility clause requires further generic legal clarification."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q4-e — Restricted categories/exceptions","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q4-e — Restricted categories/exceptions","Status and finding":"Answered as selected law.","Claim/source/branch links":"C043–C052; B015–B017","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Offense elements, convictions, exoneration, pardons, and records excluded."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q4-f — Changed statute/older regulation","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q4-f — Changed statute/older regulation","Status and finding":"Answered as identified differences; merits unresolved.","Claim/source/branch links":"C041–C042, C049–C051, C059, C088","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No judicial harmonization or invalidity conclusion."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q5-a — Advance designation established?","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q5-a — Advance designation established?","Status and finding":"Answered. Present in selected statute and §404.2018.","Claim/source/branch links":"C030–C034; S001–S002","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No actual designation."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q5-b — Eligibility/change/withdrawal","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q5-b — Eligibility/change/withdrawal","Status and finding":"Answered. Full regulatory conditions read.","Claim/source/branch links":"C030–C031; M006–M007","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No capability or application determination."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q5-c — Relationship to appointment","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q5-c — Relationship to appointment","Status and finding":"Answered. Ordered conditional consideration; organization exclusion.","Claim/source/branch links":"C032–C035; B018","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Willingness, ability, investigation, good cause absent."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q5-d — Other powers","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q5-d — Other powers","Status and finding":"Answered as a boundary. No independent authority inferred.","Claim/source/branch links":"C035, C066; B026","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Separate agency/guardianship/fund-use law held."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q6-a — Necessary outside-range notice rule","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q6-a — Necessary outside-range notice rule","Status and finding":"Answered. Complete §404.2030 read.","Claim/source/branch links":"C068–C070; S002","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No actual notice."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q6-b — Recipients/content","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q6-b — Recipients/content","Status and finding":"Answered; instruction-level edges partial.","Claim/source/branch links":"C068–C069, C082–C083; B021, B032","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Foreign/minor/proposed-payee exceptions need complete legal foundation before application."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q6-c — Ten-day action delay","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q6-c — Ten-day action delay","Status and finding":"Answered. Mailed notice and timely protest/appeal conditions preserved.","Claim/source/branch links":"C070; M020","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Counting conventions and actual dates absent; no computation."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q6-d — Initial determination/standing","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q6-d — Initial determination/standing","Status and finding":"Answered. Beneficiary review distinguished from applicant nonselection.","Claim/source/branch links":"C071–C075, C083; B020, B023","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Decision classification and actual authorized role absent."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q6-e — Sixty-day reconsideration/receipt","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q6-e — Sixty-day reconsideration/receipt","Status and finding":"Answered. Complete narrow cross-references read.","Claim/source/branch links":"C075–C078; M021–M025; S004","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No transposition to unrelated decisions or actual deadline."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q6-f — Good cause/incapacity","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q6-f — Good cause/incapacity","Status and finding":"Answered with ruling-status/judicial limits.","Claim/source/branch links":"C077–C079; S013–S014; B024","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No incapacity/representation evidence; acquiescence/judicial history held."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q6-g — Decisionmaker/process/evidence","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q6-g — Decisionmaker/process/evidence","Status and finding":"Answered within initial/reconsideration scope.","Claim/source/branch links":"C080, C084–C085; S004, S012","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Full later hearing/evidence/records-access regimes held."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q6-h — Direct-payment restoration","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q6-h — Direct-payment restoration","Status and finding":"Answered. Complete §404.2055 read.","Claim/source/branch links":"C064; B025","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No ability showing or legal-status resolution."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q6-i — Judicial review","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q6-i — Judicial review","Status and finding":"Partial by scope. Statutory right and incorporated body read; full judicial procedure not supplied.","Claim/source/branch links":"C081; S001","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Next narrow source would be applicable complete judicial-review regulation; no case search."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q7-a — Direct/representative comparison","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q7-a — Direct/representative comparison","Status and finding":"Answered.","Claim/source/branch links":"§4; C006–C010, C024–C029","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No actual outcome."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q7-b — Capability/legal incompetence/guardian","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q7-b — Capability/legal incompetence/guardian","Status and finding":"Answered with State-law hold.","Claim/source/branch links":"§4; C018–C022, C065–C067","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No broader guardianship conclusion."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q7-c — Preference/disqualification","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q7-c — Preference/disqualification","Status and finding":"Answered.","Claim/source/branch links":"§4; C037–C059","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Each actual predicate absent."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q7-d — Title II/XVI and designation/appointment","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q7-d — Title II/XVI and designation/appointment","Status and finding":"Answered.","Claim/source/branch links":"§4; C005, C030–C035","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Separate program rules not imported."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q7-e — Initial/later review","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q7-e — Initial/later review","Status and finding":"Answered within selected clauses.","Claim/source/branch links":"C060–C064, C068–C086","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Full replacement/administration held."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q7-f — Use/debt/accounts/conservation/fees","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q7-f — Use/debt/accounts/conservation/fees","Status and finding":"Excluded with reason: downstream component. Exact pointers supplied.","Claim/source/branch links":"C089; §7; B026–B027","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Read complete §§404.2035–.2045 only in a separately scoped pass."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q7-g — Misuse/removal/death/overpayment","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q7-g — Misuse/removal/death/overpayment","Status and finding":"Excluded except narrow indispensable safeguards.","Claim/source/branch links":"C061–C064, C089; §7","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Full downstream clauses and cross-references remain."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q7-h — Protected funds/tax/collection/other benefits","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q7-h — Protected funds/tax/collection/other benefits","Status and finding":"Excluded with reason: separate regimes and absent facts.","Claim/source/branch links":"C005, C089; B030","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"New generic public-law component required."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q8-a — Material enacted changes","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q8-a — Material enacted changes","Status and finding":"Answered for selected 1996/2004/2018 bodies.","Claim/source/branch links":"C094–C100; S015–S017","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Not a full historical chain."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q8-b — Regulatory adoption/amendments","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q8-b — Regulatory adoption/amendments","Status and finding":"Answered for successful originals; partial for 2006/2008 and 1982 correction.","Claim/source/branch links":"C091–C093, C101–C102; S018–S025, S028","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Ordinary official-original access remains the next inquiry."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q8-c — Renumbering/cross-references","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q8-c — Renumbering/cross-references","Status and finding":"Answered for §405(j)(10) redesignation; partial for other histories.","Claim/source/branch links":"C095; S016","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Part 402 reorganization original not independently authenticated."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q8-d — Future-effective material","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q8-d — Future-effective material","Status and finding":"Answered. 2026 §405(r) amendment segregated.","Claim/source/branch links":"C103; S026","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No representative-payee amendment inferred from it."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q8-e — Failure handling","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q8-e — Failure handling","Status and finding":"Answered. Exact failures and alternatives logged.","Claim/source/branch links":"C105; §10","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Failures do not prove legal absence."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q8-f — Complete later history/judicial certification","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q8-f — Complete later history/judicial certification","Status and finding":"Unresolved and held.","Claim/source/branch links":"C090; B029","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No comprehensive session-law, rescission, or judicial audit claimed."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q9-a — Every relied-on age/count/period","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q9-a — Every relied-on age/count/period","Status and finding":"Answered. Current measures registered.","Claim/source/branch links":"M001–M032","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"All application facts absent."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q9-b — Historical dates/application windows","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q9-b — Historical dates/application windows","Status and finding":"Answered. Separate historical register.","Claim/source/branch links":"M033–M060","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No actual deadline generated."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q9-c — Units/boundaries/exceptions/receipt","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q9-c — Units/boundaries/exceptions/receipt","Status and finding":"Answered where text supplies them; unresolved where it does not.","Claim/source/branch links":"M001–M060; B022","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Calendar/business-day and end-of-period conventions not invented."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q9-d — Financial or calendar model","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q9-d — Financial or calendar model","Status and finding":"Excluded as unnecessary.","Claim/source/branch links":"Measurement introduction","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No actual or fictional inputs."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q10-a — At least twenty meaningful branches","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q10-a — At least twenty meaningful branches","Status and finding":"Answered: thirty-two conditional branches.","Claim/source/branch links":"B001–B032","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Every branch identifies missing predicates/authority and next inquiry."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q10-b — All requested branch themes","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q10-b — All requested branch themes","Status and finding":"Answered, including program, capability, direct payment, preference, creditor, restriction, designation, investigation, notice, timing, review, later change, downstream, mismatch, currentness, and other law.","Claim/source/branch links":"B001–B032, mapped to exact C/S references","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No manufactured requirement used to fill a row."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q11-a — Wholly blank worksheet","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q11-a — Wholly blank worksheet","Status and finding":"Answered. All entry/analysis/result cells empty.","Claim/source/branch links":"§8","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No identity, health, financial, legal-status, or transaction fields populated."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q11-b — Source/program/evidence/selection fields","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q11-b — Source/program/evidence/selection fields","Status and finding":"Answered.","Claim/source/branch links":"§8","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Analytical labels only."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q11-c — Notice/quantity/cross-reference/gap fields","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q11-c — Notice/quantity/cross-reference/gap fields","Status and finding":"Answered.","Claim/source/branch links":"§8","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"No computed result or operative language."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"},{"topic":"Q11-d — No application/screening/decision tool","researcher_record":{"Coverage ID / requested question":"Q11-d — No application/screening/decision tool","Status and finding":"Answered as a design boundary.","Claim/source/branch links":"§8; researcher self-check","Missing evidence or exact next permissible inquiry":"Worksheet is not used to make a personal determination."},"raw_table_index":18,"coordinator_acceptance":"scoped_review_complete_selected_sources_history_application_held_no_component_acceptance","coordinator_review":"[internal evidence reference]"}],"annotations":{},"corrections":[],"resolved_corrections":[],"review_history":[{"id":"R075-P01-payee-history-textual-reconciliation-incorporations-procedure-actual-parent-holds-20261028","status":"reviewed_with_selected_source_and_application_holds","at":"2026-10-28T05:52:36.611700+00:00"}]}