[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: 20CFR422.140]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
               CHAPTER III--SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 422_ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart B_General Procedures
 
Sec. 422.140  Reconsideration of initial determination.

    Any part who is dissatisfied with an initial determination with 
respect to entitlement to monthly benefits, a lump-sum death payment, a 
period of disability, a revision of an earnings record, with respect to 
any other right under title II of the Social Security Act, or with 
respect to entitlement to hospital insurance benefits or supplementary 
medical insurance benefits, or the amount of hospital insurance 
benefits, may request that the Social Security Administration reconsider 
such

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determination. The information in Sec. 404.1503 of this chapter as to 
the respective roles of State agencies and the Social Security 
Administration in the making of disability determinations is also 
generally applicable to the reconsideration of initial determinations 
involving disability. However, in cases in which a disability hearing as 
described in Sec. Sec. 404.914 through 404.918 and 416.1414 through 
416.1418 is available, the reconsidered determination may be issued by a 
disability hearing officer or by the Director of the Office of 
Disability Hearings or his or her delegate. After such initial 
determination has been reconsidered, the Social Security Administration 
will mail to each of the parties written notice and inform him or her of 
his right to a hearing before an administrative law judge (see Sec. 
422.201). Regulations relating to the details of reconsideration of 
initial determinations with respect to rights under title II of the Act 
or with respect to entitlement to hospital insurance benefits or 
supplementary medical insurance benefits may be found in part 404, 
subpart J of this chapter.

[51 FR 308, Jan. 3, 1986]