[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 203 (Thursday, October 21, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65046-65047]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-26384]
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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request
The Social Security Administration (SSA) publishes a list of
information collection packages requiring clearance by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with Public Law (Pub. L.)
104-13, the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, effective October 1, 1995.
This notice includes a new information collection for OMB approval.
SSA is soliciting comments on the accuracy of the agency's burden
estimate; the need for the information; its practical utility; ways to
enhance its quality, utility, and clarity; and ways to minimize burden
on respondents, including the use of automated
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collection techniques or other forms of information technology. Mail,
e-mail, or fax your comments and recommendations on the information
collection to the OMB Desk Officer and SSA Reports Clearance Officer to
the following addresses or fax numbers.
(OMB), Office of Management and Budget, Attn: Desk Officer for SSA.
Fax: 202-395-6974. E-mail address: [email protected].
(SSA), Social Security Administration, DCBFM, Attn: Reports Clearance
Officer, 1333 Annex Building, 6401 Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21235.
Fax: 410-965-6400. E-mail address: [email protected].
SSA has submitted the information collection listed below to OMB
for clearance. Your comments on the information collection would be
most useful if OMB and SSA receive them within 30 days from the date of
this publication. To be sure we consider your comments, we must receive
them no later than November 22, 2010. You can obtain a copy of the OMB
clearance package by calling the SSA Reports Clearance Officer at 410-
965-8783 or by writing to the above e-mail address.
Benefit Offset National Demonstration--0960-NEW. SSA is undertaking
the Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND)--a demonstration and
evaluation of policy changes and services on the Social Security
Disability Insurance (SSDI) program--in an effort to produce strong
evidence about the effectiveness of potential solutions that would
improve the historically very low rate of return to work among SSDI
beneficiaries. Under current law, Social Security beneficiaries lose
their SSDI benefit if they have earnings and/or work activity above the
threshold of Substantial Gainful Activity after completing the Trial
Work Period and two-month grace period. The benefit-offset component of
this demonstration will reduce benefits by $1 for each $2 in earnings
above the BOND threshold, resulting in a gradual reduction in benefits
as earnings increase.
The experimental design for BOND will test a benefit offset alone
and in conjunction with enhanced work incentives counseling. The
central research questions include:
What is the effect of the benefit offset alone on
employment and other outcomes?
What is the effect of the benefit offset in combination
with enhanced work incentives counseling on employment and other
outcomes?
The proposed public survey data collections will have four
components--an impact study, a cost-benefit analysis, a participation
analysis, and a process study. The data collections are a primary
source for data to measure the effects of a more generous benefit
offset and the provision of enhanced work incentives counseling on SSDI
beneficiaries' work efforts and earnings. Ultimately, these data will
benefit researchers, policy analysts, policy makers and the United
States Congress in a wide range of program areas. The effects of BOND
on the well-being of SSDI beneficiaries could manifest themselves in
many dimensions and could be relevant to an array of other public
programs. This project offers the first opportunity to obtain reliable
measures of these effects based upon a nationally representative
sample. The long-term indirect benefits of this research are therefore
likely to be substantial. Respondents are SSDI beneficiaries and
concurrent SSDI and Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries who we
randomly assign to the study (Stage 1), and SSDI beneficiaries who
agree to participate in the study (Stage 2).
Type of Request: Request for a new information collection.
Note: This is a correction notice. We updated the burden
figures, shown below, since we published the 60-day Federal Register
Notice for this collection on August 12, 2010 at 75 FR 49013.
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Average burden
Survey Number of Frequency of Number of per response Total annual
respondents response responses (minutes) burden (hours)
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Participation Agreement....................................... 12,600 1 12,600 20 4,200
Baseline Survey............................................... 12,600 1 12,600 41 8,610
Interim Survey................................................ 10,080 1 10,080 29 4,872
Stage 1 36-month Survey....................................... 8,000 1 8,000 49 6,533
Stage 2 36-month Survey....................................... 10,080 1 10,080 60 10,080
Enhanced Work Incentives Assessment........................... 3,000 1 3,000 35 1,750
Key Informant Interviews...................................... 100 7 700 60 700
Stage 2 Participant Focus Groups.............................. 600 1 600 90 900
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Totals.................................................... 57,060 ................ 57,660 ................ 37,645
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Dated: October 15, 2010.
Faye Lipsky,
Reports Clearance Officer, Center for Reports Clearance, Social
Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 2010-26384 Filed 10-20-10; 8:45 am]
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