[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 2 (Friday, January 3, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 415-417]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-31439]


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RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD


Proposed Collection; Comment Request

    Summary: In accordance with the requirement of Section 3506 
(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 which provides 
opportunity for public comment on new or revised data collections, the 
Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) will publish periodic summaries of 
proposed data collections.
    Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed information 
collection is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information has practical utility; 
(b) the accuracy of the RRB's estimate of the burden of the collection 
of the information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 
clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize 
the burden related to the collection of information on respondents, 
including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of 
information technology.
    1. Title and purpose of information collection: Application and 
Claim for Unemployment Benefits and Employment Service; OMB 3220-0022.
    Section 2 of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (RUIA), 
provides unemployment benefits for qualified railroad employees. These 
benefits are generally payable for each day of unemployment in excess 
of four during a registration period (normally a period of 14 days).
    Section 12 of the RUIA provides that the RRB establish, maintain 
and operate free employment facilities directed toward the reemployment 
of railroad employees. The procedures for applying for the unemployment 
benefits and employment service and for registering and claiming the 
benefits are prescribed in 20 CFR 325.
    The RRB utilizes the following forms to collect the information 
necessary to pay unemployment benefits. Form UI-1 (or its Internet 
equivalent, Form UI-1 (Internet)), Application for

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Unemployment Benefits and Employment Service, is completed by a 
claimant for unemployment benefits once in a benefit year, at the time 
of first registration. Completion of Form UI-1 or UI-1 (Internet) also 
registers an unemployment claimant for the RRB's employment service.
    The RRB also utilizes Form UI-3 (or its Internet equivalent Form 
UI-3 (Internet)) Claim for Unemployment Benefits, for use in claiming 
unemployment benefits for days of unemployment in a particular 
registration period, normally a period of 14 days.
    Completion of Forms UI-1, UI-1 (Internet), UI-3, and UI-3 
(Internet) is required to obtain or retain benefits. The number of 
responses required of each claimant varies, depending on their period 
of unemployment. The RRB proposes no changes to the forms in this 
information collection.

                                      Estimate of Annual Respondent Burden
                             [The estimated annual respondent burden is as follows]
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                                                                      Annual           Time           Burden
                            Form No.                                 responses       (minutes)        (hours)
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UI-1............................................................           6,817              10           1,136
UI-1 (Internet).................................................           3,490              10             582
UI-3............................................................          51,996               6           5,200
UI-3 (Internet).................................................          36,286               6           3,629
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    Total.......................................................          98,589  ..............          10,547
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    2. Title and purpose of information collection: Representative 
Payee Monitoring; OMB 3220-0151.
    Under Section 12 of the Railroad Retirement Act (RRA), the RRB may 
pay annuity benefits to a representative payee when an employee, 
spouse, or survivor annuitant is incompetent or a minor. The RRB is 
responsible for determining if direct payment to an annuitant or a 
representative payee would best serve the annuitant's best interest. 
The accountability requirements authorizing the RRB to conduct periodic 
monitoring of representative payees, including a written accounting of 
benefit payments received, are prescribed in 20 CFR 266.7. The RRB 
utilizes the following forms to conduct its representative payee 
monitoring program.
    Form G-99a, Representative Payee Report, is used to obtain 
information needed to determine whether the benefit payments certified 
to the representative payee have been used for the annuitant's current 
maintenance and personal needs and whether the representative payee 
continues to be concerned with the annuitant's welfare. RRB Form G-99c, 
Representative Payee Evaluation Report, is used to obtain more detailed 
information from a representative payee who fails to complete and 
return Form G-99a or in situations when the returned Form G-99a 
indicates the possible misuse of funds by the representative payee. 
Form G-99c contains specific questions concerning the representative 
payee's performance and is used by the RRB to determine whether or not 
the representative payee should continue in that capacity. Completion 
of the forms in this collection is required to retain benefits. The RRB 
proposes minor editorial changes to both forms.

                                      Estimate of Annual Respondent Burden
                              [The estimated anual respondent burden is as follows]
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                                                                      Annual           Time           Burden
                            Form No.                                 responses       (minutes)        (hours)
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G-99a (legal and all other, excepting parent for child).........           5,400              18           1,620
G-99c (Parts I and II)..........................................             300              24             120
G-99c (Parts I, II, and III)....................................             120              31              62
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    Total.......................................................           5,820  ..............           1,802
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    Additional Information or Comments: To request more information or 
to obtain a copy of the information collection justification, forms, 
and/or supporting material, contact Dana Hickman at (312) 751-4981 or 
[email protected]. Comments regarding the information collection 
should be addressed to Charles Mierzwa, Railroad Retirement Board, 844 
North Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611-2092 or emailed to 
[email protected]. Written comments should be received within 60 
days of this notice.

Charles Mierzwa,
Chief of Information Resources Management.
[FR Doc. 2013-31439 Filed 1-2-14; 8:45 am]
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