---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 404.2109"
title: "20"
number: "404.2109"
heading: "Responsibility for making payment decisions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/404.2109"
---

# §404.2109. Responsibility for making payment decisions.


The Commissioner will decide—

- (a) Whether a continuous period of 9 months of SGA has been completed;
- (b) Whether a disability beneficiary whose disability has ceased should continue to receive benefits under § [404.316(c)](/cfr/20/404.316.md?p=c), [404.337(c)](/cfr/20/404.337.md?p=c), or [404.352(c)](/cfr/20/404.352.md?p=c) for a month after October 1984, based on his or her continued participation in a VR program;
- (c) If and when medical recovery has occurred;
- (d) Whether documentation of VR services and expenditures is adequate;
- (e) If payment is to be based on completion of a continuous 9-month period of SGA, whether the VR services contributed to the continuous period of SGA;
- (f) Whether a VR service is a service described in [§ 404.2114](/cfr/20/404.2114.md); and
- (g) What VR costs were reasonable and necessary and will be paid.

## Notes

### Amendments

[55 FR 8454, Mar. 8, 1990, as amended at 59 FR 11914, Mar. 15, 1994; 68 FR 40123, July 7, 2003]

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 205(a), 222, and 702(a)(5) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 405(a), 422, and 902(a)(5)).

### Source

Source: 48 FR 6293, Feb. 10, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[55 FR 8454, Mar. 8, 1990, as amended at 59 FR 11914, Mar. 15, 1994; 68 FR 40123, July 7, 2003]