---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 416.988"
title: "20"
number: "416.988"
heading: "Your responsibility to tell us of events that may change your disability or blindness status."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/416.988"
---

# §416.988. Your responsibility to tell us of events that may change your disability or blindness status.

- (a) If you are entitled to payments because you are disabled or blind, you should promptly tell us if—
  - (1) Your condition improves;
  - (2) You return to work;
  - (3) You have a new employer;
  - (4) You increase the amount of your work; or
  - (5) **Your earnings increase.**
- (b) If we have your authorization to obtain wage and employment information (see [§ 416.709(a)](/cfr/20/416.709.md?p=a)) from a payroll data provider (see [§ 416.702](/cfr/20/416.702.md)), and we receive your wage and employment information from your employer(s) through a participating payroll data provider, your reporting requirements under paragraphs [(a)(4)](#a-4) and [(5)](#a-5) will be reduced as described in [§ 416.709(c)](/cfr/20/416.709.md?p=c).

## Notes

### Amendments

[89 FR 107260, Dec. 31, 2024]

### 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.

### Amendments

[89 FR 107260, Dec. 31, 2024]