---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 416.1218"
title: "20"
number: "416.1218"
heading: "Exclusion of the automobile."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/416.1218"
---

# §416.1218. Exclusion of the automobile.

- (a) **Automobile; defined.** As used in this section, the term automobile includes, in addition to passenger cars, other vehicles used to provide necessary transportation.
- (b) **Limitation on automobiles.** In determining the resources of an individual (and spouse, if any), automobiles are excluded or counted as follows:
  - (1) **Total exclusion.** One automobile is totally excluded regardless of value if it is used for transportation for the individual or a member of the individual's household.
  - (2) **Other automobiles.** Any other automobiles are considered to be nonliquid resources. Your equity in the other automobiles is counted as a resource. (See [§ 416.1201(c)](/cfr/20/416.1201.md?p=c).)

## Notes

### Amendments

[40 FR 48915, Oct. 20, 1975, as amended at 44 FR 43266, July 24, 1979; 50 FR 42687, Oct. 22, 1985; 70 FR 6345, Feb. 7, 2005]

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 702(a)(5), 1602, 1611, 1612, 1613, 1614(f), 1621, 1631, and 1633 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 902(a)(5), 1381a, 1382, 1382a, 1382b, 1382c(f), 1382j, 1383, and 1383b); sec. 211, Pub. L. 93-66, 87 Stat. 154 (42 U.S.C. 1382 note).

### Source

Source: 40 FR 48915, Oct. 20, 1975, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[40 FR 48915, Oct. 20, 1975, as amended at 44 FR 43266, July 24, 1979; 50 FR 42687, Oct. 22, 1985; 70 FR 6345, Feb. 7, 2005]