42 USC § 1383d - Outreach program for children

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identifier: "/us/usc/t42/s1383d"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "42 USC § 1383d - Outreach program for children"
title_number: 42
title_name: "THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE"
section_number: "1383d"
section_name: "Outreach program for children"
chapter_number: 7
chapter_name: "SOCIAL SECURITY"
subchapter_number: "XVI"
subchapter_name: "SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME FOR AGED, BLIND, AND DISABLED"
part_number: "B"
part_name: "Procedural and General Provisions"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XVI, § 1635, as added Pub. L. 101–239, title VIII, § 8008(a), Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 2463; amended Pub. L. 103–296, title I, § 107(a)(4), Aug. 15, 1994, 108 Stat. 1478.)"
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# § 1383d. Outreach program for children

**(a)** **Establishment** The Commissioner of Social Security shall establish and conduct an ongoing program of outreach to children who are potentially eligible for benefits under this subchapter by reason of disability or blindness.

**(b)** **Requirements** Under this program, the Commissioner of Social Security shall—

**(1)** aim outreach efforts at populations for whom such efforts would be most effective; and

**(2)** work in cooperation with other Federal, State, and private agencies, and nonprofit organizations, which serve blind or disabled individuals and have knowledge of potential recipients of supplemental security income benefits, and with agencies and organizations (including school systems and public and private social service agencies) which focus on the needs of children.

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**Source Credit**: (Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XVI, § 1635, as added Pub. L. 101–239, title VIII, § 8008(a), Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 2463; amended Pub. L. 103–296, title I, § 107(a)(4), Aug. 15, 1994, 108 Stat. 1478.)

## Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1994—Subsecs. (a), (b).  substituted “Commissioner of Social Security” for “Secretary”.

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1994 Amendment

Amendment by  effective , see , set out as a note under .

### Effective Date

> “The amendment made by subsection (a) [enacting this section] shall take effect 3 months after the date of the enactment of this Act [
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### Application to Northern Mariana Islands

For applicability of this section to the Northern Mariana Islands, see section 502(a)(1) of the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America and Proc. No. 4534, , 42 F.R. 6593, set out as notes under , Territories and Insular Possessions.