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

# Social Security Administration

Executive agency. Its head, the [Commissioner of Social Security](/us/executive/social-security-administration/commissioner.md), is a Level I position in the Executive Schedule (5 U.S.C. § 5312).

## Referenced by the U.S. Code

92 sections of the U.S. Code reference this agency. A sample:

- [2 U.S.C. § 901](/legal/us/code/title-02/chapter-20/section-901.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 401](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-4/section-401.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 406](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-4/section-406.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 422](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-4/section-422.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 5312](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-53/section-5312.md)
- [5 U.S.C. § 5313](/legal/us/code/title-05/chapter-53/section-5313.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)
- [7 U.S.C. § 2020](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-51/section-2020.md)
- [7 U.S.C. § 8786](/legal/us/code/title-07/chapter-113/section-8786.md)
- [8 U.S.C. § 1360](/legal/us/code/title-08/chapter-12/section-1360.md)
- [10 U.S.C. § 1086](/legal/us/code/title-10/chapter-55/section-1086.md)
- [12 U.S.C. § 3413](/legal/us/code/title-12/chapter-35/section-3413.md)
- [15 U.S.C. § 1681c–1](/legal/us/code/title-15/chapter-41/section-1681c-1.md)
- [20 U.S.C. § 1091](/legal/us/code/title-20/chapter-28/section-1091.md)
- [20 U.S.C. § 9702](/legal/us/code/title-20/chapter-77/section-9702.md)
- [26 U.S.C. § 199A](/legal/us/code/title-26/chapter-1/section-199a.md)
- [26 U.S.C. § 24](/legal/us/code/title-26/chapter-1/section-24.md)
- [26 U.S.C. § 32](/legal/us/code/title-26/chapter-1/section-32.md)
- [26 U.S.C. § 6103](/legal/us/code/title-26/chapter-61/section-6103.md)
- [26 U.S.C. § 6428B](/legal/us/code/title-26/chapter-65/section-6428b.md)
- [26 U.S.C. § 7529](/legal/us/code/title-26/chapter-77/section-7529.md)
- [29 U.S.C. § 1322](/legal/us/code/title-29/chapter-18/section-1322.md)
- [29 U.S.C. § 3151](/legal/us/code/title-29/chapter-32/section-3151.md)
- [29 U.S.C. § 722](/legal/us/code/title-29/chapter-16/section-722.md)
- …and 67 more (full set in data/section_authority_edges.jsonl)