Availability of Information and Records to the Public

  1. Law
  2. CFR 20
  3. Employees' Benefits
  4. Social Security Administration
  5. Availability of Information and Records to the Public

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Section
402.5

Scope and purpose.

Section
402.10

Policy.

Section
402.15

Relationship between the FOIA and the Privacy Act of 1974.

Section
402.20

Requests not handled under the FOIA.

Section
402.25

Referral of requests outside of SSA.

Section
402.30

Definitions.

Section
402.35

Publication.

Section
402.40

Publications for sale.

Section
402.45

Availability of records.

Section
402.50

Availability of administrative staff manuals.

Section
402.55

Materials available at district offices and branch offices.

Section
402.60

Materials in field offices of the Office of Hearings and Appeals.

Section
402.65

Health care information.

Section
402.70

Reasons for withholding some records.

Section
402.75

Exemption one for withholding records: National defense and foreign policy.

Section
402.80

Exemption two for withholding records: Internal personnel rules and practices.

Section
402.85

Exemption three for withholding records: Records exempted by other statutes.

Section
402.90

Exemption four for withholding records: Trade secrets and confidential commercial or financial information.

Section
402.95

Exemption five for withholding records: Internal memoranda.

Section
402.100

Exemption six: Clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.

Section
402.105

Exemption seven for withholding records: Law enforcement.

Section
402.110

Exemptions eight and nine for withholding records: Records on financial institutions; records on wells.

Section
402.125

Who may release a record.

Section
402.130

How to request a record.

Section
402.135

Where to send a request.

Section
402.140

How a request for a record is processed.

Section
402.145

Responding to your request.

Section
402.150

Release of records.

Section
402.155

Fees to be charged - categories of requests.

Section
402.160

Fees to be charged - general provisions.

Section
402.165

Fee schedule.

Section
402.170

Fees for providing records and related services for program purposes pursuant to section 1106 of the Social Security Act.

Section
402.175

Fees for providing information and related services for non-program purposes.

Section
402.180

Procedure on assessing and collecting fees for providing records.

Section
402.185

Waiver or reduction of fees in the public interest.

Section
402.190

Officials who may deny a request for records under FOIA.

Section
402.195

How a request is denied.

Section
402.200

How to appeal a decision denying all or part of a request.

Section
402.205

U.S. District Court action.