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Title 42 — The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-73

§1383d Outreach program for children

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 7— - SOCIAL SECURITY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER XVI— - SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME FOR AGED, BLIND, AND DISABLED › Part Part B— - Procedural and General Provisions › § 1383d

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Commissioner of Social Security must run a continuing outreach program to find children who might qualify for benefits because they are blind or disabled. The program must focus on the groups where outreach will help most and work with federal, state, local, private, and nonprofit agencies—like schools and social service organizations—that serve or know these children.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §1383d

The Public Health and Welfare — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)The Commissioner of Social Security shall establish and conduct an ongoing program of outreach to children who are potentially eligible for benefits under this subchapter by reason of disability or blindness.
(b)Under this program, the Commissioner of Social Security shall—
(1)aim outreach efforts at populations for whom such efforts would be most effective; and
(2)work in cooperation with other Federal, State, and private agencies, and nonprofit organizations, which serve blind or disabled individuals and have knowledge of potential recipients of supplemental security income benefits, and with agencies and organizations (including school systems and public and private social service agencies) which focus on the needs of children.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1994—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 103–296 substituted “Commissioner of Social Security” for “Secretary”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1994 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 103–296 effective Mar. 31, 1995, see section 110(a) of Pub. L. 103–296, set out as a note under section 401 of this title.

Effective Date

Pub. L. 101–239, title VIII, § 8008(b), Dec. 19, 1989, 103 Stat. 2463, provided that: “The amendment made by subsection (a) [enacting this section] shall take effect 3 months after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 19, 1989].” Application to Northern Mariana IslandsFor applicability of this section to the Northern Mariana Islands, see section 502(a)(1) of the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political Union with the United States of America and Proc. No. 4534, Oct. 24, 1977, 42 F.R. 6593, set out as notes under section 1801 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.

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Citation

42 U.S.C. § 1383d

Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73