[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 15, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 14056]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-6364]



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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS

Privacy Act of 1974; Report of Amended Matching Program

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.

ACTION: Notice.

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    Notice is hereby given that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 
intends to conduct a recurring computer matching program matching 
Social Security Administration (SSA) benefit recipient records with VA 
pension and parents' dependency and indemnity compensation records.
    The goal of this match is to compare income status as reported to 
VA with benefit records maintained by SSA.
    The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) plans to match records of 
veterans and surviving spouses and children who receive pension and 
parents who receive dependency and indemnity compensation (DIC) from VA 
with Social Security Administration benefit records maintained by SSA. 
The match with SSA will provide VA with data from the SSA Master 
Beneficiary Record. VA will use the data to update the master records 
of VA beneficiaries receiving income dependent benefits and to adjust 
VA benefit payments as prescribed by law. Otherwise, information about 
a VA beneficiary's receipt of SSA benefits is obtained from reporting 
by the beneficiary. The proposed matching program will enable VA to 
ensure accurate reporting of income.

RECORDS TO BE MATCHED: The VA records involved in the match are the VA 
system of records, Compensation, Pension, Education and Rehabilitation 
Records--VA (58 VA 21/22) contained in the Privacy Act Issuances, 1991 
compilation, Volume II, pages 967-971 as amended. The SSA records 
consist of information from the SSA Master Beneficiary Record 09-60-
0090 published at 58 FR 35302, June 30, 1993.
    In accordance with Title 5 U.S.C. subsection 552a(o)(2) and (r), 
copies of the agreement are being sent to both Houses of Congress and 
to the Office of Management and Budget.
    This notice is provided in accordance with the provisions of the 
Privacy Act of 1974 as amended by Public Law 100-503.
    The match is estimated to start April 1, 1995, but will start no 
sooner than 40 days after publication of this Notice in the Federal 
Register, or 40 days after copies of this Notice and the agreement of 
the parties are submitted to Congress and the Office of Management and 
Budget, whichever is later, and end not more than 18 months after the 
agreement is properly implemented by the parties. The involved 
agencies' Data Integrity Boards (DIB) may extend this match for 12 
months provided the agencies certify to their DIBs, within three months 
of the ending date of the original match, that the matching program 
will be conducted without change and that the matching program has been 
conducted in compliance with the original matching program.

ADDRESSES: Interested individuals may comment on the proposed matches 
by writing to the Director, Compensation and Pension Service (21), 
Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue NW., Washington, DC 
20420.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David G. Spivey (213B), (202) 273-
7258.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This information is required by Title 5 
U.S.C. subsection 552a(e)(12), the Privacy Act of 1974. A copy of this 
notice has been provided to both Houses of Congress and the Office of 
Management and Budget.

    Approved: March 2, 1995.
Jesse Brown,
Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. 95-6364 Filed 3-14-95; 8:45 am]
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