---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1304"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1304"
heading: "Reservation of right to amend or repeal"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1304"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Social Security"
  - "Subchapter XI — General Provisions, Peer Review, and Administrative Simplification"
  - "Part A — General Provisions"
---

# §1304. Reservation of right to amend or repeal


The right to alter, amend, or repeal any provision of this chapter is hereby reserved to the Congress.


## Source credit

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XI, § 1104, 49 Stat. 648.)