---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 404.803"
title: "20"
number: "404.803"
heading: "Conclusiveness of the record of your earnings."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/404.803"
---

# §404.803. Conclusiveness of the record of your earnings.

- (a) **Generally.** For social security purposes, SSA records are evidence of the amounts of your earnings and the periods in which they were received.
- (b) **Before time limit ends.** Before the time limit ends for a year, SSA records are evidence, but not conclusive evidence, of the amounts and periods of your earnings in that year.
- (c) **After time limit ends.** After the time limit ends for a year—
  - (1) If SSA records show an entry of self-employment income or wages for an employer for a period in that year, our records are conclusive evidence of your self-employment income in that year or the wages paid to you by that employer and the periods in which they were received unless one of the exceptions in [§ 404.822](/cfr/20/404.822.md) applies;
  - (2) If SSA records show no entry of wages for an employer for a period in that year, our records are conclusive evidence that no wages were paid to you by that employer in that period unless one of the exceptions in [§ 404.822](/cfr/20/404.822.md) applies; and
  - (3) If SSA records show no entry of self-employment income for that year, our records are conclusive evidence that you did not receive self-employment income in that year unless the exception in [§ 404.822(b)(2)](/cfr/20/404.822.md?p=b-2) (i) or (iii) applies.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 205(a), (c)(1), (c)(2)(A), (c)(4), (c)(5), (c)(6), and (p), 702(a)(5), and 1143 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 405(a), (c)(1), (c)(2)(A), (c)(4), (c)(5), (c)(6), and (p), 902(a)(5), and 1320b-13).

### Source

Source: 44 FR 38454, July 2, 1979, unless otherwise noted.