---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 416.302"
title: "20"
number: "416.302"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/416.302"
---

# §416.302. Definitions.


For the purpose of this subpart—

Benefits means any payments made under the SSI program. SSI benefits also include any federally administered State supplementary payments.

Claimant means the person who files an application for himself or herself or the person on whose behalf an application is filed.

We or us means the Social Security Administration (SSA).

You or your means the person who applies for benefits, the person for whom an application is filed or anyone who may consider applying for benefits.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 702(a)(5), 1611, and 1631 (a), (d), and (e) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 902(a)(5), 1382, and 1383 (a), (d), and (e)).

### Source

Source: 45 FR 48120, July 18, 1980, unless otherwise noted.