---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 416.1904"
title: "20"
number: "416.1904"
heading: "Authorization to withhold SSI benefits."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/416.1904"
---

# §416.1904. Authorization to withhold SSI benefits.


We may withhold your SSI benefit payment and send it to the State to repay the State for the interim assistance it gave to you, if—

- (a) We have an interim assistance agreement with the State at the time your authorization goes into effect; and
- (b) **Your authorization is in effect at the time we make the SSI benefit payment.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 702(a)(5) and 1631 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 902(a)(5) and 1383).

### Source

Source: 46 FR 47449, Sept. 27, 1981, unless otherwise noted.