---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 416.660"
title: "20"
number: "416.660"
heading: "Transfer of accumulated benefit payments."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/416.660"
---

# §416.660. Transfer of accumulated benefit payments.


A representative payee who has conserved or invested benefit payments shall transfer these funds and the interest earned from the invested funds to either a successor payee, to the beneficiary, or to us, as we will specify. If the funds and the earned interest are returned to us, we will recertify them to a successor representative payee or to the beneficiary.


## Notes

### Amendments

[47 FR 30475, July 14, 1982, as amended at 75 FR 7552, Feb. 22, 2010]

### 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

[47 FR 30475, July 14, 1982, as amended at 75 FR 7552, Feb. 22, 2010]