---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 416.626"
title: "20"
number: "416.626"
heading: "How do we investigate an appointed representative payee?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/416.626"
---

# §416.626. How do we investigate an appointed representative payee?


After we select an individual to act as your representative payee, we will conduct a criminal background check on the appointed representative payee at least once every 5 years.


## Notes

### Amendments

[84 FR 4326, Feb. 15, 2019, as amended at 84 FR 57320, Oct. 25, 2019]

### Authority

Authority: Secs. 205(j)(1)(C), 702(a)(5), 1631(a)(2) and (d)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 405(j)(1)(C), 902(a)(5), 1383(a)(2) and (d)(1)).

### Source

Source: 47 FR 30475, July 14, 1982, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[84 FR 4326, Feb. 15, 2019, as amended at 84 FR 57320, Oct. 25, 2019]