# Supplemental Security Income; Determining Disability for a Child Under Age 18; Interim Final Rules With Request for Comments
> **US Social Security Administration** · Interim final rules with request for comments. · Published 1997-02-11 · Effective 1997-04-14 · 62 FR 6408
## Document
- **Document number:** 97-3317
- **Category:** ssa-disability
- **Agency:** US Social Security Administration
- **Federal Register citation:** 62 FR 6408
- **CFR reference:** 20 CFR 404
- **Publication date:** 1997-02-11
- **Effective date:** 1997-04-14
- **Docket:** Regulations Nos. 4 and 16
## Abstract

These rules implement the childhood disability provisions of sections 211 and 212 of Public Law 104-193, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 that provide a new definition of disability for children (i.e., individuals under age 18), mandate changes to the evaluation process for children's disability claims and continuing disability reviews (CDRs), and require that disability redeterminations be performed for 18-year-olds eligible as children in the month before they attain age 18.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1997/02/11/97-3317/supplemental-security-income-determining-disability-for-a-child-under-age-18-interim-final-rules)
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