[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 119 (Tuesday, June 22, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33241-33242]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-15795]


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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.

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 Management and Budget (OMB) Guidelines on 
the Conduct of 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 July 22, 1999. 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 U.S. 
Soldiers' and Airmen's Home, Resource Management Directorate, 3700 N 
Capitol Street NW, Washington, DC 20317-0002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: 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 for 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 monthly 
fee, which is a percentage of their monthly income and monthly 
payments, (including federal payments); 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 June 9, 1999, to the Committee on Governmental Reform and 
Oversight of the United States

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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.
David F. Lacy,
Armed Forces Retirement Home Board, Chair/CEO.

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 
USC 414 to be a percentage of residents' monthly income and monthly 
payments (including federal 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 percentage of residents' monthly income and monthly 
payments (including federal payments).
    D. Records to be Matched: The SSA records involved in the match are 
the Supplemental Security Income Record, SSA/OSR, 09-60-0103, and the 
Master Beneficiary Record, SSA/OSR, 09-60-0090. The AFRH will provide a 
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 the Office of Management and Budget and 
Congress. If there are no objections 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, Resource Management Directorate, 3700 N 
Capitol Street NW, Washington, DC 20317-0002, (202) 722-3163.

[FR Doc. 99-15795 Filed 6-21-99; 8:45 am]
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