---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 404.1614"
title: "20"
number: "404.1614"
heading: "Responsibilities for obtaining evidence to make disability determinations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/404.1614"
---

# §404.1614. Responsibilities for obtaining evidence to make disability determinations.

- (a) We or the State agency will secure from the claimant or other sources any evidence the State agency needs to make a disability determination. When we secure the evidence, we will furnish it to the State agency for use in making the disability determination.
- (b) At our request, the State agency will obtain and furnish medical or other evidence and provide assistance as may be necessary for us to carry out our responsibilities—
  - (1) For making disability determinations in those classes of cases described in the written guidelines for which the State agency does not make the determination; or
  - (2) Under international agreements with respect to social security benefits payable under [section 233](/cfr/20/233.md) of the Act.

## Notes

### Amendments

[46 FR 29204, May 29, 1981, as amended at 79 FR 33682, June 12, 2014]

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 205(a), 221, and 702(a)(5) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 405(a), 421, and 902(a)(5)).

### Source

Source: 46 FR 29204, May 29, 1981, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[46 FR 29204, May 29, 1981, as amended at 79 FR 33682, June 12, 2014]