---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1010a"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1010a"
heading: "Optional Federal administration of State recognition payments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1010a"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Social Security"
  - "Subchapter VIII — Special Benefits for Certain World War Ii Veterans"
---

# §1010a. Optional Federal administration of State recognition payments

- (a) **In general—** The Commissioner of [Social](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=20) Security may enter into an agreement with any [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) (or political subdivision thereof) that provides cash payments on a regular basis to individuals entitled to benefits under this subchapter under which the Commissioner of [Social](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=20) Security shall make such payments on behalf of such [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) (or subdivision).
- (b) **Agreement terms—**
  - (1) **In general—** Such agreement shall include such terms as the Commissioner of [Social](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=20) Security finds necessary to achieve efficient and effective [administration](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-10) of both this subchapter and the [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) program.
  - (2) **Financial terms—** Such agreement shall provide for the [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) to pay the Commissioner of [Social](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=20) Security, at such times and in such installments as the parties may specify—
    - (A) an amount equal to the expenditures made by the Commissioner of [Social](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=20) Security pursuant to such agreement as payments to individuals on behalf of such [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5); and
    - (B) an [administration](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-10) fee to reimburse the administrative expenses incurred by the Commissioner of [Social](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=20) Security in making payments to individuals on behalf of the [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5).
- (c) **Special disposition of administration fees—** [Administration](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-10) fees, upon collection, shall be credited to a special fund established in the Treasury of the [United States](/usc/42/1012.md?p=5) for [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) recognition payments for certain [World War II veterans](/usc/42/1012.md?p=1). The amounts so credited, to the extent and in the amounts provided in advance in appropriations Acts, shall be available to defray expenses incurred in carrying out this subchapter.

## Source credit

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title VIII, § 810A, as added Pub. L. 106–554, § 1(a)(1) [title V, § 518(a)], Dec. 21, 2000, 114 Stat. 2763, 2763A–73.)