[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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