TN 1 (05-23)
CITATIONS:
Subject to appropriate Federal funding, the State will provide adequate equipment to facilitate accurate and prompt disability determinations.
Title to equipment rests with the State but ownership is transferred to SSA on:
the date the State is notified that SSA will assume the disability determination function; or
the date SSA is notified that the State wishes to terminate the relationship.
The disability determination services (DDS) may obtain equipment through:
Purchase
Rental
Lease/Purchase agreement.
Information technology (IT) equipment is to be considered separately from other equipment. Standards and requirements applicable to IT equipment are found in specific chapters in DI 39536.000. All other references in DI 39536 to "equipment" are irrelevant to IT equipment.
Equipment is any article of tangible personal property that has a lifeof more than one year, an acquisition cost of $5,000 or more per unit, and probable resale, salvage or trade-in value.
NOTE: Rental equipment is also covered by this definition.