20 CFR § 401.10 - Applicability.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t20/s401.10"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "20 CFR § 401.10 - Applicability."
title_number: 20
title_name: "Employees' Benefits"
section_number: "401.10"
section_name: "Applicability."
chapter_name: "SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION"
part_number: "401"
part_name: "PRIVACY AND DISCLOSURE OF OFFICIAL RECORDS AND INFORMATION"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-03-24"
last_updated: "2026-03-24"
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generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "Secs. 205, 702(a)(5), 1106, and 1141 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 405, 902(a)(5), 1306, and 1320b-11); 5 U.S.C. 552 and 552a; 8 U.S.C. 1360; 26 U.S.C. 6103; 30 U.S.C. 923."
regulatory_source: "62 FR 4143, Jan. 29, 1997, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "401"
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# 401.10 Applicability.

(a) *SSA.* All SSA employees and components are governed by this part. SSA employees governed by this part include all regular and special government employees of SSA; experts and consultants whose temporary (not in excess of 1 year) or intermittent services have been procured by SSA by contract pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109; volunteers where acceptance of their services are authorized by law; those individuals performing gratuitous services as permitted under conditions prescribed by the Office of Personnel Management; and, participants in work-study or training programs.

(b) *Other entities.* This part also applies to advisory committees and councils within the meaning of the Federal Advisory Committee Act which provide advice to: Any official or component of SSA; or the President and for which SSA has been delegated responsibility for providing services.