Technical Changes to the Title II Regulations

Thu, Jul 17 2008 11:00:00 GMT

We are issuing this direct final rule to make technical corrections to our title II regulations affecting the Federal OldAge, Survivors and Disability Insurance programs. This rule amends our regulations by correcting a crossreference affecting entitlement to mother's and father's benefits, to include alternatives to the 9month duration of marriage requirement. We are deleting an outofdate cross reference to the definition of ``substantially all.'' In its place, we are restoring the regulatory definition for ``substantially all'' that had been inadvertently deleted to show if a grandchild or
stepgrandchild is dependent based on our support requirements. Also, we are revising headings in six of our regulations to conform to plain language provisions of Executive Order (E.O.) 12866, as amended.

We are also amending one of our regulations for clarity and to correct a typographical error.

Technical Revisions to Overpayment Rules

Thu, Jul 17 2008 11:00:00 GMT

These proposed rules would amend our title II regulations to explicitly provide that we apply an underpayment due an individual to reduce an overpayment to that individual in certain cases. Our title XVI regulations already state this policy. Additionally, these proposed rules reflect our procedures for collecting overpayments when a payment of more than the correct amount is made to a representative payee on behalf of a beneficiary after the beneficiary's death. These proposed rules would clarify that we would collect overpayments in this situation from only the representative payee or his estate but would not collect these overpayments from the representative payee's spouse or from the spouse's estate.

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Technical Changes to the Title II Regulations

Technical Revisions to Overpayment Rules