20 CFR 404.704
§ 404.704 Your responsibility for giving evidence.
United States · 20 CFR — Employees' Benefits · Status: effective
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- 20 CFR 404.704, § 404.704 Your responsibility for giving evidence, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/78381
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When evidence is needed to prove your eligibility or your right to continue to receive benefit payments, you will be responsible for obtaining and giving the evidence to us. We will be glad to advise you what is needed and how to get it and we will consider any evidence you give us. If your evidence is a foreign-language record or document, we can have it translated for you. Evidence given to us will be kept confidential and not disclosed to anyone but you except under the rules set out in part 401. You should also be aware that Section 208 of the Social Security Act provides criminal penalties for misrepresenting the facts or for making false statements to obtain social security benefits for yourself or someone else.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.