[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 181 (Thursday, September 18, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Page 56127]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-22104]


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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS


Privacy Act of 1974; Report of Matching Program

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs.

ACTION: Notice of Computer Matching Program.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides notice that 
it intends to conduct a recurring computer-matching program matching 
Social Security Administration (SSA) Master Beneficiary Records (MBR) 
and the Master Files of Social Security Number (SSN) Holders and SSN 
Applications (Numident) with VA pension, compensation, and dependency 
and indemnity compensation records. The goal of this match is to 
identify beneficiaries who are receiving VA benefits and SSA benefits 
or earned income, and to reduce or terminate VA benefits, if 
appropriate. The match will include records of current VA 
beneficiaries.

DATES: The match will start no sooner than 30 days after publication of 
this notice in the Federal Register (FR), or 40 days after copies of 
this notice and the agreement of the parties is submitted to Congress 
and the Office of Management and Budget, whichever is later, and end 
not more than 18 months after the agreement is properly implemented by 
the parties. The involved agencies' Data Integrity Boards (DIB) may 
extend this match for 12 months provided the agencies certify to their 
DIBs, within 3 months of the ending date of the original match, that 
the matching program will be conducted without change and that the 
matching program has been conducted in compliance with the original 
matching program.

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be submitted through 
www.Regulations.gov; by mail or hand-delivery to the Director, 
Regulations Management (02REG), Department of Veterans Affairs, 810 
Vermont Ave. NW., Room 1068, Washington, DC 20420; or by fax to (202) 
273-9026. Copies of comments received will be available for public 
inspection in the Office of Regulation Policy and Management, Room 
1063B, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through 
Friday (except holidays). Please call (202) 461-4902 for an 
appointment. In addition, during the comment period, comments may be 
viewed online through the Federal Docket Management System at 
www.Regulations.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sakinah Richardson, Pension Analyst, 
Pension and Fiduciary Service (21P), Department of Veterans Affairs, 
810 Vermont Ave. NW., Washington, DC 20420, (202) 632-8863.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: VA will use this information to verify the 
income information submitted by beneficiaries in VA's needs-based 
benefit programs and adjust VA benefit payments as prescribed by law.
    The legal authority to conduct this match is 38 U.S.C. 5106, which 
requires any Federal department or agency to provide VA such 
information as VA requests for the purposes of determining eligibility 
for benefits, or verifying other information with respect to payment of 
benefits.
    The VA records involved in the match are in ``Compensation, Pension 
and Education and Rehabilitation Records--VA (58 VA 21/22/28),'' a 
system of records which was first published at 41 FR 9294 (March 3, 
1976), amended and republished in its entirety at 77 FR 42593 (July 19, 
2012). The routine use is number 39 regarding computer matches. The SSA 
records consist of information from the system of records identified as 
the SSA MBR, SSA/Office of Retirement and Survivors Insurance Systems, 
60-0090, routine use number 23 and SSA Numident, SSA/Office of 
Earnings, Enumeration, and Administrative Systems, 60-0058, routine use 
number 14.
    In accordance with the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. 552a(o)(2) and (r), 
copies Congress and to the Office of Management and Budget. This notice 
is provided in accordance with the provisions of Privacy Act of 1974 as 
amended by Public Law 100-503.

    Signing Authority: The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or 
designee, approved this document and authorized the undersigned to 
sign and submit the document to the Office of the Federal Register 
for publication electronically as an official document of the 
Department of Veterans Affairs. Jose D. Riojas, Chief of Staff, 
Department of Veterans Affairs, approved this document on September 
4, 2014, for publication.

    Dated: September 11, 2014.
William F. Russo,
Deputy Director, Office of Regulation Policy & Management, Office of 
the General Counsel, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2014-22104 Filed 9-17-14; 8:45 am]
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