---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 C.F.R. § 435.960"
title: "42"
number: "435.960"
heading: "Standardized formats for furnishing and obtaining information to verifying income and eligibility."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/42/435.960"
---

# §435.960. Standardized formats for furnishing and obtaining information to verifying income and eligibility.

- (a) The agency must maintain for all applicants and beneficiaries within an agency file the SSN, surname and other data elements in a format that at a minimum allows the agency to furnish and to obtain eligibility and income information from the agencies or programs referenced in [§ 435.945(b)](/cfr/42/435.945.md?p=b) and [§ 435.948(a)](/cfr/42/435.948.md?p=a).
- (b) The format to be used will be prescribed by—
  - (1) CMS when the agency furnishes information to, or requests information from, any Federal or State agency, except SSA and the Internal Revenue Service as specified in [paragraphs (b)](#b) (2) and (3), respectively;
  - (2) The Commissioner of Social Security when the agency requests information from SSA; and
  - (3) The Commissioner of Internal Revenue when the agency requests information from the Internal Revenue Service.

## Notes

### Amendments

[52 FR 5977, Feb. 27, 1987]

### Source

Source: Sections 435.940 through 935.965 appear at 51 FR 7211, Feb. 28, 1986, unless otherwise noted.

### Source

Source: 44 FR 17937, Mar. 23, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 1302.

### Source

Source: 43 FR 45204, Sept. 29, 1978, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[52 FR 5977, Feb. 27, 1987]