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[FR Doc No: 94-1298]


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ARMED FORCES RETIREMENT HOME

 

Privacy Act of 1974; Computer Matching Program Between the Armed 
Forces Retirement Home and the Social Security Administration

AGENCY: Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH).

ACTION: Publication of notice of computer matching to comply with 
Public Law 100-503, the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 
1988.

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SUMMARY: AFRH is publishing notice of its computer matching program 
with the Social Security Administration (SSA) to meet the reporting and 
publication requirements of Public Law 100-503. The purpose of this 
match is for SSA to provide and verify benefit payment information of 
the AFRH's residents.

DATES: This proposed action will become effective February 22, 1994. 
The computer matching will proceed accordingly without further notice, 
unless comments are received which would result in a contrary 
determination or if the Office of Management and Budget, or Congress, 
objects thereto. Any public comment must be received before the 
effective date.

ADDRESSES: Any interested party may submit written comments to the 
Administrative Officer, Administration Division, Resource Management 
Directorate, U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home, Washington, DC 20317-
0002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Doris D. Montgomery, at (202) 722-3230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: AFRH and SSA have concluded an agreement to 
conduct a computer matching program. The purpose of this agreement is 
to establish the conditions under which the SSA agrees to the 
disclosure of benefit payment information on the residents of the AFRH, 
which includes the United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home (USSAH) 
and United States Naval Home (USNH). The AFRH Resident Fee Maintenance 
System will be used in a matching program with the SSA Master 
Beneficiary Records and Supplemental Security Income Records. Residents 
of the AFRH are required by 24 U.S.C. 414 to pay a percentage of their 
Federal payments, including Social Security; thus, the AFRH will use 
the SSA data to verify the benefit earnings information currently 
provided by the residents, and identify any unreported recipients of 
benefit payments. A computer matching is the most efficient and 
effective manner to accomplish this task with the least amount of 
intrusion of personal privacy of the individuals concerned. It was 
therefore concluded and agreed upon that computer matching would be the 
best and least obtrusive manner and choice of accomplishing this 
requirement.
    The matching agreement and an advance copy of this notice were 
submitted on January 6, 1994, to the Committee on Government Operations 
of the United States House of Representatives, the Committee on 
Governmental Affairs of the United States Senate, and the Administrator 
of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 
Management and Budget. The matching program is subject to review by 
Congress and OMB and shall not become effective until that review 
period has elapsed.
Dennis W. Jahnigen,
Armed Forces Retirement Home Board Chair.

Computer Matching Program between the Armed Forces Retirement Home and 
the Social Security Administration

    A. Participating agencies: AFRH and SSA.
    B. Purpose of the matching program: The purpose of this computer 
matching program is to identify and verify the gross Social Security 
benefit earnings of each resident of the AFRH. This is necessary to 
properly assess correct resident fee amounts, which is required by 24 
U.S.C. 414 to be a fixed percentage of residents' Federal payments, 
including Social Security payments.
    C. Authority for conducting the matching program: The Armed Forces 
Retirement Home Act of 1991, 24 U.S.C. 401-441, requires the Directors 
of the USSAH and USNH, which are incorporated under the Armed Forces 
Retirement Home, to collect from each resident a monthly resident fee. 
The fee is a fixed percentage of residents' Federal payments, including 
Social Security payments.
    D. Records to be matched: The SSA records involved in the match are 
the Supplemental Security Income Record, HHS/SSA/OSR, 09-60-0103, and 
the Master Beneficiary Record, HHS/SSA/OSR, 09-60-0090 (both last 
published at 58 FR 35025 (June 30, 1993)). The AFRH will provide a 
magnetic finder file established from the AFRH Resident Fee Maintenance 
System.
    E. Inclusive dates of the matching program: This computer matching 
program is subject to review by the Office of Management and Budget and 
Congress. If no objections are raised by either within 40 days, and the 
30 day public notice period for comment has expired for this Federal 
Register notice with no significant adverse public comments, this 
computer matching program becomes effective and the respective agencies 
may begin the exchange of data at a mutually agreeable time and will be 
repeated on a semiannual basis. Under no circumstances shall the 
matching program be implemented before the 30 day public notice period 
for comment has elapsed as this time period cannot be waived. By 
agreement between SSA and AFRH, the matching program will be in effect 
and continue for 18 months with an option to renew for 12 additional 
months unless one of the parties to the agreement advises the other by 
written request to terminate or modify the agreement.
    F. Address for receipt of public comments or inquiries: 
Administrative Officer, Administration Division, Resource Management 
Directorate, U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home, Washington, DC 20317-
0002, (202) 722-3230.

[FR Doc. 94-1298 Filed 1-19-94; 8:45 am]
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