[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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