# Rules of Conduct and Standards of Responsibility for Appointed Representatives
> **US Social Security Administration** · Final rules. · Published 2018-07-02 · Effective 2018-08-01 · 83 FR 30849
## Document
- **Document number:** 2018-13989
- **Category:** ssa-other
- **Agency:** US Social Security Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 83 FR 30849
- **CFR reference:** 20 CFR 404
- **Publication date:** 2018-07-02
- **Effective date:** 2018-08-01
- **Docket:** Docket No. SSA-2013-0044
## Abstract

We are revising our rules of conduct and standards of responsibility for representatives. We are also updating and clarifying the procedures we use when we bring charges against a representative for violating these rules and standards. These changes are necessary to better protect the integrity of our administrative process and to further clarify representatives' existing responsibilities in their conduct with us. The revisions should not be interpreted to suggest that any specific conduct was permissible under our rules prior to these changes; instead, we seek to ensure that our rules of conduct and standards of responsibility are clearer as a whole and directly address a broader range of inappropriate conduct.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/07/02/2018-13989/rules-of-conduct-and-standards-of-responsibility-for-appointed-representatives)
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