---
type: Body
title: "Commissioner of Social Security"
classification: "executive-office"
chamber: "executive"
code: "EXEC-SOCIAL-SECURITY-ADMINISTRATION-COMMISSIONER"
parent: "us/executive/social-security-administration"
schedule_level: "I"
sources:
  - field: definition
    source: "5 U.S.C. § 5312 (Executive Schedule, Level I)"
confidence: official
tags: [body, executive, executive-office]
timestamp: "2026-07-03"
---

# Commissioner of Social Security

Cabinet-rank office (Executive Schedule Level I, 5 U.S.C. § 5312), head of the [Social Security Administration](/us/executive/social-security-administration/index.md).

## Empowered by the U.S. Code

161 sections of the U.S. Code vest authority in this office. A sample:

- [5 U.S.C. § 401](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-4/section-401.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 5312](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-53/section-5312.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 8141](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-81/section-8141.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 8347](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-83/section-8347.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 8903c](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-89/section-8903c.md)
- [6 U.S.C. § 255](/legal/us/code/title-06/chapter-1/section-255.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 2015](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-51/section-2015.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 2020](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-51/section-2020.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 2025](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-51/section-2025.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 9093](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-115/section-9093.md)
- [8 U.S.C. § 1360](/legal/us/code/title-08/chapter-12/section-1360.md)
- [8 U.S.C. § 1612](/legal/us/code/title-08/chapter-14/section-1612.md)
- [8 U.S.C. § 1641](/legal/us/code/title-08/chapter-14/section-1641.md)
- [8 U.S.C. § 1645](/legal/us/code/title-08/chapter-14/section-1645.md)
- [10 U.S.C. § 1095](/legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-55/section-1095.md)
- [14 U.S.C. § 3707](/legal/us/code/title-14/chapter-37/section-3707.md)
- [26 U.S.C. § 1402](/legal/us/code/title-26/chapter-2/section-1402.md)
- [26 U.S.C. § 3121](/legal/us/code/title-26/chapter-21/section-3121.md)
- [26 U.S.C. § 3127](/legal/us/code/title-26/chapter-21/section-3127.md)
- [26 U.S.C. § 529A](/legal/us/code/title-26/chapter-1/section-529a.md)
- [26 U.S.C. § 6050F](/legal/us/code/title-26/chapter-61/section-6050f.md)
- [26 U.S.C. § 6057](/legal/us/code/title-26/chapter-61/section-6057.md)
- [26 U.S.C. § 6103](/legal/us/code/title-26/chapter-61/section-6103.md)
- [26 U.S.C. § 6402](/legal/us/code/title-26/chapter-65/section-6402.md)
- [26 U.S.C. § 642](/legal/us/code/title-26/chapter-1/section-642.md)
- …and 136 more (full set in data/section_authority_edges.jsonl)