[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR408.315]

[Page 591]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
               CHAPTER III--SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 408_SPECIAL BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN WORLD WAR II VETERANS--Table of 
Contents
 
                      Subpart C_Filing Applications
 
Sec. 408.315  Who may sign your application?

    (a) When you must sign. If you are mentally competent, and 
physically able to do so, you must sign your own application.
    (b) When someone else may sign for you. (1) If you are mentally 
incompetent, or physically unable to sign, your application may be 
signed by a court-appointed representative or a person who is 
responsible for your care, including a relative. If you are in the care 
of an institution, the manager or principal officer of the institution 
may sign your application.
    (2) If it is necessary to protect you from losing benefits and there 
is good cause why you could not sign the application, we may accept an 
application signed by someone other than you or a person described in 
paragraph (b)(1) of this section.

    Example: Mr. Smith comes to a Social Security office a few days 
before the end of a month to file an application for SVB for his 
neighbor, Mr. Jones. Mr. Jones, a 68-year-old widower, just suffered a 
heart attack and is in the hospital. He asked Mr. Smith to file the 
application for him. We will accept an application signed by Mr. Smith 
because it would not be possible to have Mr. Jones sign and file the 
application until the next calendar month and a loss of one month's 
benefits would result.