[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: 20CFR408.345]

[Page 592-593]
 
                      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. 408.345  When will we use the date of an oral inquiry as your 
application filing date?

    We will use the date of an oral inquiry about SVB as the filing date 
of your application for SVB if the following requirements are met:
    (a) The inquiry asks about your entitlement to SVB.
    (b) The inquiry is made by you, your spouse, or a person who may 
sign an

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application on your behalf as described in Sec. 408.315.
    (c) The inquiry, whether in person or by telephone, is directed to 
an office or an official described in Sec. 408.325(a).
    (d) You, or a person on your behalf as described in Sec. 408.315, 
file an application on a prescribed form within 60 days after the date 
of the notice we will send telling of the need to file an application. 
The notice will say that we will make an initial determination on 
whether you qualify for SVB if an application form is filed within 60 
days after the date of the notice. However, if it is clear from the 
information we receive that you are mentally incompetent, we will send 
the notice to the person who made the inquiry.
    (e) You are alive when the prescribed application is filed.

               Deemed Filing Date Based on Misinformation