---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1383f"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1383f"
heading: "Annual report on program"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1383f"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Social Security"
  - "Subchapter XVI — Supplemental Security Income for Aged, Blind, and Disabled"
  - "Part B — Procedural and General Provisions"
---

# §1383f. Annual report on program

- (a) **In general—** Not later than May 30 of each year, the Commissioner of [Social](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=20) Security shall prepare and deliver a report annually to the President and the Congress regarding the program under this subchapter, [including](/usc/42/1301.md?p=b)—
  - (1) a comprehensive description of the program;
  - (2) historical and current data on allowances and denials, [including](/usc/42/1301.md?p=b) number of applications and allowance rates for initial determinations, reconsideration determinations, administrative law judge hearings, appeals council reviews, and Federal court decisions;
  - (3) historical and current data on characteristics of recipients and program costs, by recipient group (aged, blind, disabled [adults](/usc/42/619.md?p=1), and disabled children);
  - (4) historical and current data on prior enrollment by recipients in public benefit programs, [including](/usc/42/1301.md?p=b) [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) programs funded under part A of subchapter IV of this chapter and [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) general assistance programs;
  - (5) projections of future number of recipients and program costs, through at least 25 years;
  - (6) number of redeterminations and continuing disability reviews, and the outcomes of such redeterminations and reviews;
  - (7) data on the utilization of work incentives;
  - (8) detailed information on administrative and other program operation costs;
  - (9) summaries of relevant research undertaken by the [Social](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=20) Security [Administration](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-10), or by other researchers;
  - (10) [State](/usc/42/619.md?p=5) supplementation program operations;
  - (11) a historical summary of statutory changes to this subchapter; and
  - (12) such other information as the Commissioner deems useful.
- (b) **Views of individual members of Social Security Advisory Board—** Each member of the [Social](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=20) Security Advisory Board shall be permitted to provide an individual report, or a joint report if agreed, of views of the program under this subchapter, to be included in the annual report required under this section.

## Source credit

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XVI, § 1637, as added Pub. L. 104–193, title II, § 231, Aug. 22, 1996, 110 Stat. 2197.)