---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 416.2209"
title: "20"
number: "416.2209"
heading: "Responsibility for making payment decisions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/416.2209"
---

# §416.2209. 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 or blindness recipient whose disability or blindness has ceased should continue to receive benefits under section 1631(a)(6) of the Social Security Act for a month after October 1984 or, in the case of a blindness recipient, for a month after March 1988, 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 [§ 416.2214](/cfr/20/416.2214.md); and
- (g) What VR costs were reasonable and necessary and will be paid.

## Notes

### Amendments

[55 FR 8456, Mar. 8, 1990, as amended at 59 FR 11918, Mar. 15, 1994; 61 FR 31026, June 19, 1996; 68 FR 40125, July 7, 2003]

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 702(a)(5), 1615, 1631(d)(1) and (e), and 1633(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 902(a)(5), 1382d, 1383(d)(1) and (e), and 1383b(a)).

### Source

Source: 48 FR 6297, Feb. 10, 1983, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[55 FR 8456, Mar. 8, 1990, as amended at 59 FR 11918, Mar. 15, 1994; 61 FR 31026, June 19, 1996; 68 FR 40125, July 7, 2003]