---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 416.1045"
title: "20"
number: "416.1045"
heading: "How and when we determine whether the performance accuracy standard is met."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/416.1045"
---

# §416.1045. 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. 702(a)(5), 1614, 1631, and 1633 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 902(a)(5), 1382c, 1383, and 1383b).

### Source

Source: 46 FR 29211, May 29, 1981, unless otherwise noted.