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    <CFRTITLE>20</CFRTITLE>
    <CFRTITLETEXT>Employees' Benefits</CFRTITLETEXT>
    <VOL>2</VOL>
    <DATE>2002-04-01</DATE>
    <ORIGINALDATE>2002-04-01</ORIGINALDATE>
    <COVERONLY>false</COVERONLY>
    <TITLE>Responsibility for making payment decisions.</TITLE>
    <GRANULENUM>404.2109</GRANULENUM>
    <HEADING>Section 404.2109</HEADING>
    <ANCESTORS>
      <PARENT HEADING="Title 20" SEQ="4">Employees' Benefits</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="CHAPTER III" SEQ="3">SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="PART 404" SEQ="2">FEDERAL OLD-AGE, SURVIVORS AND DISABILITY INSURANCE (1950- )</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="Subpart V" SEQ="1">Payments for Vocational Rehabilitation Services</PARENT>
      <PARENT HEADING="" SEQ="0">Payment Provisions</PARENT>
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  <SECTION>
    <SECTNO>§ 404.2109</SECTNO>
    <SUBJECT>Responsibility for making payment decisions.</SUBJECT>
    <P>The Commissioner will decide—</P>
    <P>(a) Whether a continuous period of 9 months of SGA has been completed;</P>
    <P>(b) Whether a disability beneficiary whose disability has ceased should continue to receive benefits under § 404.316(c), 404.337(c), or 404.352(c) for a month after October 1984, based on his or her continued participation in a VR program;</P>
    <P>(c) Whether an individual, without good cause, refused to continue to accept VR services or failed to cooperate in a VR program for a month(s) after October 1984, and whether deductions should be imposed against the individual's disability benefits;</P>
    <P>(d) If and when medical recovery has occurred;</P>
    <P>(e) Whether documentation of VR services and expenditures is adequate;</P>
    <P>(f) If payment is to be based on completion of a continuous 9-month period of SGA, whether the VR services contributed to the continuous period of SGA;</P>
    <P>(g) Whether a VR service is a service described in § 404.2114; and</P>
    <P>(h) What VR costs were reasonable and necessary and will be paid.</P>
    <CITA>[55 FR 8454, Mar. 8, 1990, as amended at 59 FR 11914, Mar. 15, 1994]</CITA>
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