---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 416.262"
title: "20"
number: "416.262"
heading: "Eligibility requirements for special SSI cash benefits."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/416.262"
---

# §416.262. Eligibility requirements for special SSI cash benefits.


You are eligible for special SSI cash benefits if you meet the following requirements—

- (a) You were eligible to receive a regular SSI benefit or a federally administered State supplementary payment (see [§ 416.2001](/cfr/20/416.2001.md)) in a month before the month for which we are determining your eligibility for special SSI cash benefits as long as that month was not in a prior period of eligibility which has terminated according to [§§ 416.1331 through 416.1335](/cfr/20/416.1331..416.1335.md);
- (b) In the month for which we are making the determination, your gross earned income exceeds the amount ordinarily considered to represent SGA under [§ 416.974(b)(2)](/cfr/20/416.974.md?p=b-2);
- (c) You continue to have a disabling impairment; and
- (d) [Reserved]
- (e) You meet all the nondisability requirements for eligibility for SSI benefits (see [§ 416.202](/cfr/20/416.202.md)).

## Notes

### Amendments

[47 FR 15324, Apr. 9, 1982, as amended at 59 FR 41404, Aug. 12, 1994; 60 FR 8149, Feb. 10, 1995; 64 FR 31972, June 15, 1999; 91 FR 16830, Apr. 3, 2026]

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 702(a)(5), 1110(b), 1602, 1611, 1614, 1619(a), 1631, and 1634 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 902(a)(5), 1310(b), 1381a, 1382, 1382c, 1382h(a), 1383, and 1383c); secs. 211 and 212, Pub. L. 93-66, 87 Stat. 154 and 155 (42 U.S.C. 1382 note); sec. 502(a), Pub. L. 94-241, 90 Stat. 268 (48 U.S.C. 1681 note); sec. 2, Pub. L. 99-643, 100 Stat. 3574 (42 U.S.C. 1382h note ).

### Source

Source: 47 FR 3103, Jan. 22, 1982, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[47 FR 15324, Apr. 9, 1982, as amended at 59 FR 41404, Aug. 12, 1994; 60 FR 8149, Feb. 10, 1995; 64 FR 31972, June 15, 1999; 91 FR 16830, Apr. 3, 2026]