[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 27 (Thursday, February 9, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7782-7783]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-3242]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Rescission of Social Security Ruling (SSR) 80-36, Title XVI: 
Presumptive Disability and Presumptive Blindness Provision

AGENCY: Social Security Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Commissioner of Social Security gives notice of the 
rescission of SSR 80-36.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 9, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joanne K. Castello, Division of 
Regulations and Rulings, Social Security Administration, 6401 Security 
Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21235, (410) 965-1711.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Social Security Rulings make available to 
the public precedential decisions relating to the Federal old-age, 
survivors, disability, supplemental security income, and black lung 
benefits programs. Social Security Rulings may be based on case 
decisions made at all administrative levels of adjudication, Federal 
court decisions, Commissioner's decisions, opinions of the Office of 
the General Counsel, and other policy interpretations of the law and 
regulations.
    SSR 80-36, issued in 1980, was published in the 1976-1980 
Cumulative Edition of the Rulings on page 482. SSR 80-36 established 
procedures concerning the types of impairments subject to findings of 
presumptive [[Page 7783]] 
disability and presumptive blindess by field office personnel under the 
supplemental security income (SSI) program. However, a number of 
regulations promulgated since the issuance of the Ruling and published 
at 56 FR 65682 (1991) and 58 FR 36059 (1993) have updated the 
presumptive disability and presumptive blindness provisions discussed 
in SSR 80-36. These regulations revised and expanded the procedures for 
making findings of presumptive disability to include additional 
categories of impairments, e.g., claims based on human immunodeficiency 
virus infection of listing-level severity. In addition, the time period 
for the payment of SSI benefits based on a finding of presumptive 
disability and presumptive blindness was expanded from 3 months, as 
stated in SSR 80-36, to 6 months by section 5038 of Pub. L. 101-508. 
Consequently, SSR 80-36, which was issued prior to these regulations 
and statutory changes, is now obsolete and is rescinded.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, Program 93.807, 
Supplemental Security Income.)

    Dated: February 1, 1995.
Shirley S. Chater,
Commissioner of Social Security.
[FR Doc. 95-3242 Filed 2-8-95; 8:45 am]
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