[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 154 (Thursday, August 8, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 41439]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-20122]


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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION


Rescission of Social Security Ruling SSR 82-50 Title II: 
Definition of Living in the Same Household

AGENCY: Social Security Administration.

ACTION: Rescission of Social Security Ruling SSR 82-50.

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SUMMARY: The Commissioner of Social Security gives notice of the 
rescission of SSR 82-50.

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 9, 1996.

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 82-50, issued in 1982, was published in the 1981-1985 
Cumulative Edition of the Rulings on page 64. SSR 82-50 interpreted the 
definition of living in the same household to allow for extended 
separations due to confinement of either spouse in a nursing home, 
hospital, or other medical institution. The husband and wife were 
considered living in the same household as long as evidence indicated 
they were initially separated, and continue to be separated, solely for 
medical reasons and would otherwise have resided together.
    The Social Security Administration published elsewhere in today's 
Federal Register final regulations which incorporate the living in the 
same household policy interpretation found in SSR 82-50. Since the 
policy in SSR 82-50 has been incorporated into these regulations, the 
Ruling is rescinded as of the date the final regulations take effect.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, Programs 96.001 Social 
Security--Disability Insurance; 96.002 Social Security--Retirement 
Insurance; 96.004 Social Security--Survivors Insurance.)

    Dated: July 25, 1996.
Shirley S. Chater,
Commissioner of Social Security.
[FR Doc. 96-20122 Filed 8-7-96; 8:45 am]
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