{"data":{"id":"us/20-cfr-416.2209","jurisdiction":"us","citation":"20 CFR 416.2209","heading":"Responsibility for making payment decisions.","body":"The Commissioner will decide:\n(a) Whether a continuous period of 9 months of SGA has been completed;\n(b) Whether a disability or blindness recipient whose disability or blindness has ceased should continue to receive benefits under section 1631(a)(6) of the Social Security Act for a month after October 1984 or, in the case of a blindness recipient, for a month after March 1988, based on his or her continued participation in a VR program;\n(c) If and when medical recovery has occurred;\n(d) Whether documentation of VR services and expenditures is adequate;\n(e) If payment is to be based on completion of a continuous 9-month period of SGA, whether the VR services contributed to the continuous period of SGA;\n(f) Whether a VR service is a service described in § 416.2214; and\n(g) What VR costs were reasonable and necessary and will be paid.","path":["Title 20—Employees' Benefits","CHAPTER III—SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION","PART 416—SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME FOR THE AGED, BLIND, AND DISABLED","Subpart V—Payments for Vocational Rehabilitation Services"],"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":"f1f24a896ea84c5247a5d78d9247f53e5a7571e768742a49d6ad89525f47a61f","source_id":"us-cfr","stale":true,"prev":"us/20-cfr-416.2208","next":"us/20-cfr-416.2210"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}