Last Update: 7/31/2023 (Transmittal I-5-600-6)
Renumbered from HALLEX section II-4-0-1
When SSA publishes a final regulation in the
Federal Register, important information,
helpful in understanding and interpreting the intent of the regulation,
often is included in the preamble. When a regulation is of particular
importance to adjudicators in the Office of Hearings Operations (OHO)
or the Office of Appellate Operations (OAO) in the Office of Analytics,
Review, and Oversight, the Chief Administrative Law Judge of OHO or
Executive Director of OAO, sends a memorandum containing the entire text
of the Federal Register notice (preamble
and final regulations). Although OHO and OAO adjudicators have access to the
Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR), the
CFR does not include the preamble to the
regulation. Therefore, unless adjudicators retain the
Federal Register material OHO and OAO
distributes when SSA publishes the regulation, the important information
contained in the preamble is not readily available to them.