[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 141 (Monday, July 22, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37881-37882]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-18481]


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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: Notice.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 552a (e)(12) of the Privacy Act of 1974, 
as amended, and the Office of Personnel Management and Budget (OMB) 
Guidelines on Matching Programs, notice is hereby made of the computer 
matching between the Armed Forces Retirement Home (AFRH) and the Social 
Security Administration (SSA). The purpose of this match is for SSA to 
provide and verify benefit payment information on the AFRH's residents.

DATES: This proposed action will become effective August 21, 1996. The 
computer matching will proceed accordingly without further notice, 
unless comments are received which would result in a contrary 
determination or if Congress or the Office of Management and Budget, 
objects thereto. Any public comment must be received before the 
effective data.

ADDRESSES: Any interested party may submit written comments to the U.S. 
Soldiers' and Airmen's Home, Resource Management Directorate, 3700 
North Capitol Street NW., Washington, DC 20317-0002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Donna H. Dietz, at (202) 722-3163.

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 of accomplishing this requirement.

    The matching agreement and an advance copy of this notice were 
submitted on July 12, 1996, to the Committee on Government Reform and 
Oversight of the United States House of Representatives, the Committee 
on Governmental Affairs 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

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become effective until that review period has elapsed.
Dennis W. Jahnigen,
Chair, Armed Forces Retirement Home.

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 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 USC 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 USC 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. The AFRH will 
provide a magnetic finder file established from the AFRH Resident Fee 
Maintenance System (last published at 58 FR 68629).
    E. Inclusive dates of the matching program: This computer matching 
program is subject to review by Congress and the Office of Management 
and Budget. 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; U.S. 
Soldiers' and Airmen's Home, Administration Division, Resource 
Management Directorate, 3700 North Capitol Street NW., Washington, DC 
20317-0002, (202) 722-3163.

[FR Doc. 96-18481 Filed 7-19-96; 8:45 am]
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