{"data":{"id":"us/20-cfr-416.1866","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"20 CFR 416.1866","heading":"Deciding whether you are a child: Are you the head of a household?","body":"(a) Meaning of head of household. You are the head of a household if you have left your parental home on a permanent basis and you are responsible for the day-to-day decisions on the operation of your own household. If you live with your parent(s) or stepparents, we will ordinarily assume you are not the head of a household. However, we will consider you to be the head of a household if for some reason (such as your parent's illness) you are the one who makes the day-to-day decisions. You need not have someone living with you to be the head of a household.\n(b) If you share decision-making equally. If you live with one or more people and everyone has an equal voice in the decision-making (for example, a group of students who share off-campus housing), that group is not a household. Each person who has left the parental home on a permanent basis is the head of his or her own household.","path":["Title 20—Employees' Benefits","CHAPTER III—SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION","PART 416—SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME FOR THE AGED, BLIND, AND DISABLED","Subpart R—Relationship"],"source_url":"https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-08-25/title-20.xml","current_through":"2026-08-25","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T02:24:45Z","sha256":"7847b72d081b0ecdd593e47e3643495ae0dc60e56e6cf6a53067e1cca1ff166b","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/20-cfr-416.1861","next":"us/20-cfr-416.1870"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}