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This is a conforming regulation to codify section 102 of the Strengthening Protections for Social Security Beneficiaries Act of 2018, Reducing the Burden on Families, which the agency has already implemented in practice. Section 102 reduces the burden on families by exempting certain representative payees from our annual accounting requirements. The Strengthening Protections Act requires us to prescribe regulations as necessary to determine eligibility for such exemption. Under section 102, we exempt from our annual accounting requirements any representative payee who is: (1) A natural or adoptive parent of a minor child entitled to title II benefits and/or eligible for title XVI payments who primarily resides in the same household as the beneficiary; (2) a legal guardian of a minor child entitled to title II benefits and/or eligible for title XVI payments who primarily resides in the same household as the beneficiary; (3) a natural or adoptive parent of a disabled individual (as defined in section 223(d) of the Act) entitled to title II benefits and/or eligible for title XVI payments who primarily resides in the same household as the beneficiary; or (4) the spouse of an individual entitled to title II benefits and/or eligible for title VIII or title XVI payments.