---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 416.982"
title: "20"
number: "416.982"
heading: "Blindness under a State plan."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/416.982"
---

# §416.982. Blindness under a State plan.


We shall also consider you blind for the purposes of payment of supplemental security income benefits if—

- (a) You were found to be blind as defined under a State plan approved under title X or title XVI of the Social Security Act, as in effect for October 1972;
- (b) You received aid under the State plan because of your blindness for the month of December 1973; and
- (c) **You continue to be blind as defined under the State plan.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 421(m), 902(a)(5), 1382, 1382c, 1382h, 1383, and 1383b; secs. 4(c) and 5, 6(c)-(e), 14(a), and 15, Pub. L. 98-460, 98 Stat. 1794, 1801, 1802, and 1808 (42 U.S.C. 421 note, 423 note, and 1382h note).

### Source

Source: 45 FR 55621, Aug. 20, 1980, unless otherwise noted.