---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 404.2026"
title: "20"
number: "404.2026"
heading: "How do we investigate an appointed representative payee?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/404.2026"
---

# §404.2026. How do we investigate an appointed representative payee?


After we select an individual to act as your representative payee, we will conduct a criminal background check on the appointed representative payee at least once every 5 years.


## Notes

### Amendments

[84 FR 4325, Feb. 15, 2019, as amended at 84 FR 57319, Oct. 25, 2019]

### Authority

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

### Source

Source: 47 FR 30472, July 14, 1982, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[84 FR 4325, Feb. 15, 2019, as amended at 84 FR 57319, Oct. 25, 2019]