---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 404.1645"
title: "20"
number: "404.1645"
heading: "How and when we determine whether the performance accuracy standard is met."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/404.1645"
---

# §404.1645. How and when we determine whether the performance accuracy standard is met.

- (a) **How we determine performance accuracy.** We determine a State agency's performance accuracy rate on the basis of decision and documentation errors identified in our review of the sample cases.
- (b) **Frequency of review.** Title II and title XVI initial performance accuracy are monitored together on a quarterly basis. The determinations as to whether the performance accuracy threshold has been met is made at the end of each quarter each year. Quarterly State-by-State combined initial performance accuracy rates are compared to the established threshold level.

## Notes

### 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.