Justification for the Non-Substantive Chnages - 0960-0555

Justification for Non-Substantive Changes to the Disability Case Development Information Collections by State Disability Determination Services on Behalf of the Social Security Administration

20 CFR, Subpart P, 404.1503a, 404.1512, 404.1513, 404.1514, 404.1517, 404.1518(c), 404.1519; 20 CFR Subpart Q, 404.1613, 404.1614, 404.1624; 20 CFR Subpart I, 416.903a, 416.912, 416.913, 416.914, 416.917, 416.918(c), 416.919 and 20 CFR Subpart J, 416.1013 and 416.1024.

OMB No. 0960-0555

Justification for the Non-Substantive Changes

We recently noticed we did not list the regulation citations for 20 CFR 404.1518(c) and 416.918(c) of the Code of Federal Regulations in the current documentation for OMB No. 0960‑0555. These citations list a regulatory requirement for the Disability Determination Services (DDS) to include language in their consultative examination (CE) notices instructing the claimants to respond in writing immediately if they are unable to attend the CE appointment, or if their treating source tells them not to attend the CE appointment.

These regulatory citations are not new. We realize we should have included them after we published the Final Rule for these citations; however, we inadvertently omitted them. Therefore, we are correcting that oversight now.

Since we already require the DDSs to include the necessary language in the CE notices as per these regulatory citations, including these citations in our ICR will not affect the current burden for this information collection.