CFR > Title 20 - Employees' Benefits > CHAPTER III—SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION > PART 416—SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME FOR THE AGED, BLIND, AND DISABLED > SUBPART I—Determining Disability and Blindness (§416.901 to §416.999d) > 416.982—Blindness under a State plan.

416.982—Blindness under a State plan.

We shall also consider you blind for the purposes of payment of supplemental security income benefits if—
(a) You were found to be blind as defined under a State plan approved under title X or title XVI of the Social Security Act, as in effect for October 1972;
(b) You received aid under the State plan because of your blindness for the month of December 1973; and
(c) You continue to be blind as defined under the State plan.