Title 20, Part 408 — Special Benefits for Certain World War Ii Veterans

What is this part about?

Purpose and administration of the program.

General definitions and use of terms.

Periods of limitations ending on Federal nonworkdays.

What is this subpart about?

How do you qualify for SVB?

What conditions will prevent you from qualifying for SVB or being entitled to receive SVB payments?

What happens when you apply for SVB?

What happens if you establish residence outside the United States within 4 calendar months?

What happens if you do not establish residence outside the United States within 4 calendar months?

What happens if you are a qualified individual already residing outside the United States?

Are you age 65?

Are you a World War II veteran?

Do you meet the SSI eligibility requirements?

Do you have other benefit income?

How does your other benefit income affect your SVB?

How do we determine the monthly amount of your other benefit income?

What happens if you begin receiving other benefit income after you become entitled to SVB?

When do we consider you to be residing outside the United States?

When must you begin residing outside the United States?

When do you lose your foreign resident status?

Can you continue to receive SVB payments if you stay in the United States for more than 1 full calendar month?

What is this subpart about?

Why do you need to file an application to receive benefits?

What makes an application a claim for SVB?

Who may sign your application?

What evidence shows that a person has authority to sign an application for you?

When is your application considered filed?

How long will your application remain in effect?

When will we use a written statement as your filing date?

When will we use the date of an oral inquiry as your application filing date?

What happens if we give you misinformation about filing an application?

Can you withdraw your application?

Can you cancel your request to withdraw your application?

What is this subpart about?

When do you need to give us evidence?

Where should you give us your evidence?

What happens if you fail to give us the evidence we ask for?

When do we require original records or copies as evidence?

How do we evaluate the evidence you give us?

When do you need to give us evidence of your age?

What kinds of evidence of age do you need to give us?

How do we evaluate the evidence of age you give us?

What evidence of World War II military service do you need to give us?

How do we establish your eligibility for SSI?

When do you need to give us evidence of your other benefit income?

What kind of evidence of your other benefit income do you need to give us?

How do you prove that you are residing outside the United States?

How do you prove that you had good cause for staying in the United States for more than 1 full calendar month?

What is this subpart about?

How do we determine the amount of your SVB payment?

How do we reduce your SVB when you receive other benefit income?

When do we make SVB payments?

What is this subpart about?

When will we send your SVB payments to a representative payee?

What happens to your monthly benefits while we are finding a suitable representative payee for you?

What information do we consider in determining whether we will pay your benefits to a representative payee?

Advance designation of representative payees.

What information do we consider in selecting the proper representative payee for you?

What is our order of preference in selecting a representative payee for you?

Who may not serve as a representative payee?

How do we investigate a representative payee applicant?

What information must a representative payee report to us?

How do we investigate an appointed representative payee?

How will we notify you when we decide you need a representative payee?

What are the responsibilities of your representative payee?

How must your representative payee use your benefits?

Who is liable if your representative payee misuses your benefits?

What must your representative payee do with unused benefits?

When will we select a new representative payee for you?

When will we stop making your payments to a representative payee?

What happens to your accumulated funds when your representative payee changes?

How does your representative payee account for the use of your SVB payments?

What is this subpart about?

Who must make reports?

What events must you report to us?

What must your report include?

How should you make your report?

When are reports due?

What is this subpart about?

When will we suspend your SVB payments?

What happens to your SVB payments if you fail to comply with our request for information?

What happens to your SVB payments if you are no longer residing outside the United States?

What happens to your SVB payments if you begin receiving additional benefit income?

What happens to your SVB payments if you are removed (including deported) from the United States?

What happens to your SVB payments if you are fleeing to avoid criminal prosecution or custody or confinement after conviction, or because you violate a condition of probation or parole?

What happens to your SVB payments if you are not a citizen or national of the United States and you begin residing in a Treasury-restricted country?

Can you request termination of your SVB entitlement?

When does SVB entitlement end due to death?

When does SVB entitlement terminate if your benefit payments have been in suspense for 12 consecutive months?

Will we send you a notice of intended action affecting your SVB payment status?

What is this subpart about?

What is an underpayment?

What is an overpayment?

How do we determine the amount of an underpayment or overpayment?

How will you receive an underpayment?

Will we withhold or adjust an underpayment to reduce an overpayment if that overpayment occurred in a different period?

When will we waive recovery of an SVB overpayment?

What happens when we waive recovery of an SVB overpayment?

When are you without fault regarding an overpayment?

When would overpayment recovery defeat the purpose of the title VIII program?

When would overpayment recovery be against equity and good conscience?

What notices will you receive if you are overpaid or underpaid?

When will we seek refund of an SVB overpayment?

When will we adjust your SVB payments to recover an overpayment?

Is there a limit on the amount we will withhold from your SVB payments to recover an overpayment?

Are title II and title XVI benefits subject to adjustment to recover title VIII overpayments?

How much will we withhold from your title II and title XVI benefits to recover a title VIII overpayment?

Will you receive notice of our intention to apply cross-program recovery?

When will we begin cross-program recovery from your current monthly benefits?

When will we refer an SVB overpayment to the Department of the Treasury for tax refund offset?

Will we notify you before we refer an SVB overpayment for tax refund offset?

Will you have a chance to present evidence showing that the overpayment is not past due or is not legally enforceable?

What happens after we make our determination on your request for review or your request for waiver?

How can you review our records related to an SVB overpayment?

When will we suspend tax refund offset?

What happens if your tax refund is insufficient to cover the amount of your SVB overpayment?

Will we accept a compromise settlement of an overpayment debt or suspend or terminate collection of an overpayment?

What is this subpart about?

Definitions.

What is an initial determination?

Which administrative actions are initial determinations?

Which administrative actions are not initial determinations?

Will we mail you a notice of the initial determination?

What is the effect of an initial determination?

What is reconsideration?

How do you request reconsideration?

How do we determine whether you had good cause for missing the deadline to request review?

What are the methods for reconsideration?

What procedures apply if you request reconsideration of an initial determination on your application for SVB?

What procedures apply if you request reconsideration of an initial determination that results in suspension, reduction, or termination of your SVB?

What happens if you request a conference?

How do we make our reconsidered determination?

How does the reconsidered determination affect you?

How will we notify you of our reconsidered determination?

When can you use the expedited appeals process?

When can you request a hearing before an administrative law judge (ALJ)?

What procedures apply if you request an ALJ hearing?

When can you request Appeals Council review of an ALJ hearing decision or dismissal of a hearing request?

What happens if a Federal Court remands your case to the Commissioner?

When will we reopen a final determination?

Can you appoint someone to represent you?

What are State recognition payments?

How can a State have SSA administer its State recognition payment program?

What are the essential elements of an administration agreement?

How do you establish eligibility for Federally administered State recognition payments?

How do we pay Federally administered State recognition payments?

What happens if you receive an overpayment?

What happens if you are underpaid?

Can you waive State recognition payments?

How does the State transfer funds to SSA to administer its recognition payment program?