[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 115 (Wednesday, June 15, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35067-35068]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-14741]


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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION


Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposed Request and 
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 104-13, the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, effective October 1, 1995. This notice 
includes a request for one extension and two revisions of OMB-approved 
information collections.
    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 collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology. Mail, e-mail, or fax your 
comments and recommendations on the information collection(s) to the 
OMB Desk Officer and SSA Reports Clearance Officer at 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].
    I. The information collections below are pending at SSA. SSA will 
submit them to OMB within 60 days from the date of this notice. To be 
sure we consider your comments, we must receive them no later than 
August 15, 2011. Individuals can obtain copies of the collection 
instruments by calling the SSA Reports Clearance Officer at 410-965-
8783 or by writing to the above e-mail address.
    1. Application for Benefits under a U.S. International Social 
Security Agreement--20 CFR 404.1925--0960-0448. Section 233(a) of the 
Social Security Act (Act) authorizes the President to broker 
international Social Security agreements (totalization agreements) 
between the United States and foreign countries. SSA collects 
information using form SSA-2490-BK to determine entitlement to Social 
Security benefits from the United States, or from a country that enters 
into a totalization agreement with the United States. The respondents 
are individuals applying for Old Age Survivors and Disability Insurance 
(OASDI) benefits from the United States or from a totalization 
agreement country.
    Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information 
collection.

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                                                                                             Average      Total
                                                            Number of     Frequency of     burden per     annual
                      Form number                          respondents      response        response      burden
                                                                                            (minutes)    (hours)
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SSA-2490-BK (Modernized Claims System).................          14,000               1              30  7,000
SSA-2490-BK (paper)....................................           2,000               1              30  1,000
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    Totals.............................................          16,000  ..............  ..............  8,000
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    2. Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS)--20 CFR 416.110(e), 
416.1180-1182, 416.1225-1227--0960-0559. The Supplemental Security 
Income (SSI) program encourages recipients to return to work. One of 
the program objectives

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is to provide incentives and opportunities that help recipients to do 
this. The PASS provision allows individuals to use available income or 
resources (such as business equipment, education, or specialized 
training) to enter (or re-enter) the workforce and become self-
supporting. In turn, SSA does not count the income or resources 
recipients use to fund a PASS when determining an individual's SSI 
eligibility or payment amount. An SSI recipient who wants to use 
available income and resources to obtain education or training to 
become self-supporting completes the SSA-545. SSA uses the information 
from the SSA-545 to evaluate the recipient's plan for achieving self-
support, and to determine eligibility under the provisions of the SSI 
program. The respondents are SSI recipients who are blind or disabled 
and want to develop a plan to work.
    Type of Request: Extension of an OMB-approved information 
collection.
    Number of Respondents: 7,000.
    Frequency of Response: 1.
    Average Burden Per Response: 2 hours.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 14,000 hours.
    II. SSA submitted the information collection below to OMB for 
clearance. Your comments regarding 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 July 15, 2011. Individuals can obtain copies 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.
    Representative Payee Report--Adult, Representative Payee Report--
Child, Representative Payee Report--Organizational Representative 
Payees--20 CFR 404.635, 404.2035, 404.2065, and 416.665--0960-0068. 
When SSA determines it is not in an OASDI or SSI recipient's best 
interest to receive Social Security payments directly, the agency will 
designate a representative payee for the recipient. The representative 
payee can be: (1) A family member; (2) a non-family member who is a 
private citizen and is acquainted with the beneficiary; (3) an 
organization; (4) a state or local government agency; or (5) a 
business. In the capacity of representative payee, the person or 
organization receives the SSA payments directly and manages these 
payments for the recipient. As part of its stewardship mandate, SSA 
must ensure the representative payees are properly using the payments 
they receive for the recipients they represent. The agency annually 
collects the information necessary to make this assessment using the 
SSA-623, Representative Payee Report--Adult; SSA-6230, Representative 
Payee Report--Child; SSA-6234, Representative Payee Report--
Organizational Representative Payee; and through the Internet 
Representative Payee Accounting (iRPA) application. The respondents are 
representative payees of OASDI and SSI recipients.
    Type of Request: Revision to an OMB-approved information 
collection.

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                                                                                      Average
                                                     Number of     Frequency of     burden per     Total annual
                    Form No.                        respondents      response        response     burden (hours)
                                                                                     (minutes)
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SSA-623.........................................       2,378,400               1              15         594,600
SSA-6230........................................       2,875,900               1              15         718,975
SSA-6234........................................         702,100               1              15         175,525
iRPA*...........................................         652,500               1              15         163,125
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    Totals......................................       6,608,900  ..............  ..............       1,652,225
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* One Internet platform encompasses all three paper forms.


    Dated: June 9, 2011.
Liz Davidson,
Center Director, Center for Reports Clearance, Social Security 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2011-14741 Filed 6-14-11; 8:45 am]
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