[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 218 (Tuesday, November 12, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67434-67436]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-26953]


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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 revisions and one extension 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, email, 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, Email address: [email protected].
    (SSA) Social Security Administration, OLCA, Attn: Reports Clearance 
Director, 3100 West High Rise, 6401 Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 
21235, Fax: 410-966-2830, Email address: [email protected].
    I. The information collection below is pending at SSA. SSA will 
submit it 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 
January 13, 2014. Individuals can obtain copies of the collection 
instruments by writing to the above email address.
    Statement of Agricultural Employer (Year Prior to 1988; and 1988 
and later)--20 CFR 404.702, 404.802, 404.1056--0960-0036. If 
agricultural workers believe their employers (1) did not report their 
wages or (2) reported incorrect wage amounts, SSA will assist them in 
resolving this issue. Specifically, SSA will send Forms SSA-1002-F3 or 
SSA-1003-F3 to the agricultural employers to collect evidence of wages 
paid. The respondents are agricultural employers whose workers request 
wage verification or correction for their earnings records.
    Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information 
collection.

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                                                                                                     Estimated
                                                     Number of     Frequency of   Average burden   total annual
             Modality of completion                 respondents      response      per response       burden
                                                                                     (minutes)        (hours)
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SSA-1002........................................           7,500               1              30           3,750
SSA-1003........................................          25,000               1              30          12,500
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    Totals......................................          32,500  ..............  ..............          16,250
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    II. SSA submitted the information collections below to OMB for 
clearance. Your comments regarding the information collections would be 
most useful if OMB and SSA receive them 30 days from the date of this 
publication. To be sure we consider your comments, we must receive them 
no later than December 12, 2013. Individuals can obtain copies of the 
OMB clearance packages by writing to [email protected].
    1. Request for Corrections of Earnings Record--20 CFR 404.820 and 
20 CFR 422.125--0960-0029. Individuals alleging their earnings records 
in SSA's files are inaccurate use Form SSA-7008 to provide the 
information SSA needs to check earnings posted, and as necessary, 
initiate development to resolve any inaccuracies. The respondents are 
individuals who request correction of earnings posted to their Social 
Security earnings record.
    Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information 
collection.

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                                                                                                     Estimated
                                                     Number of     Frequency of   Average burden   total annual
             Modality of completion                 respondents      response      per response       burden
                                                                                     (minutes)        (hours)
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Paper Form......................................          37,500               1              10           6,250
In-Person or Telephone Interview................         337,500               1              10          56,250
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    Totals......................................         375,000  ..............  ..............          62,500
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    2. Incorporation by Reference of Oral Findings of Fact and 
Rationale in Wholly Favorable Written Decisions (Bench Decision 
Regulation)--20 CFR 404.953 and 416.1453--0960-0694. If an 
administrative law judge (ALJ) makes a wholly favorable oral decision 
that includes all the findings and rationale for the decision for a 
claimant of Title II or Title XVI payments at an administrative appeals 
hearing, the ALJ sends a Notice of Decision (Form HA-82), as the 
records from the oral hearing preclude the need for a written decision. 
We call this the incorporation-by-reference process. In addition, the 
regulations for this process state that if the involved parties want a 
record of the oral decision, they may submit a written request for 
these records. SSA collects identifying information under the aegis of 
Sections 20 CFR 404.953 and 416.1453 of the Code of Federal Regulations 
to determine how to send interested individuals written records of a 
favorable incorporation-by-reference oral decision made at an 
administrative review hearing. Since there is no prescribed form to 
request a written record of the decision, the involved parties send SSA 
their contact information and reference the hearing for which they 
would like a record. The respondents are applicants for Disability 
Insurance Benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments or 
their representatives to whom SSA gave a wholly favorable oral decision 
under the regulations cited above.
    Type of Request: Extension of an OMB-approved information 
collection.

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                                                                                 Average burden  Estimated total
           Modality of completion                Number of       Frequency of     per response    annual burden
                                                respondents        response        (minutes)         (hours)
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HA-82.......................................           2,500                1                5              208
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    3. Protection and Advocacy for Beneficiaries of Social Security 
(PABSS)--20 CFR 435.51-435.52--0960-0768. In March of 2013, Social 
Security announced its intention to award grants to reestablish 
community-based protection and advocacy projects in every State, U.S. 
Territories, and the Hopi and Navajo tribal nations, as authorized 
under Section 1150 of the Social Security Act (Act). Awardees are the 
57 Protection & Advocacy (P&A) organizations established under Title I 
of the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act. 
The PABSS projects are part of Social Security's strategy to increase 
the number of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) or SSI 
recipients who return to work and achieve financial independence and 
self-sufficiency as the result of receiving support, representation, 
advocacy, or other services. The overarching objective of the PABSS 
program is to provide information and advice about obtaining vocational 
rehabilitation and employment services, and to provide advocacy or 
other services a beneficiary with a disability may need to secure, 
maintain, or regain gainful employment. The PABSS Annual Program 
Performance Report collects statistical information from each of the 
PABSS projects in an effort to manage and capture program performance 
and quantitative data. Social Security uses the information to evaluate 
the efficacy of the program, and to ensure beneficiaries are receiving 
quality services. The project data is valuable to Social Security in 
its analysis of and

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future planning for the SSDI and SSI programs. The respondents are the 
57 PABSS project sites, and recipients of SSDI and SSI programs.
    Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information 
collection.

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                                                                                                     Estimated
                                                     Number of     Frequency of   Average burden   total annual
             Modality of completion                 respondents      response      per response       burden
                                                                                     (minutes)        (hours)
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PABSS Program Grantees..........................              57               1              60              57
Beneficiaries...................................           5,000               1              30           2,500
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    Totals......................................           5,057  ..............  ..............           2,557
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    Dated: November 6, 2013.
Faye Lipsky,
Reports Clearance Director, Social Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 2013-26953 Filed 11-8-13; 8:45 am]
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