[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 191 (Monday, October 3, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68091-68093]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-23774]


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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

[Docket No: SSA-2016-0049]


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 extensions 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]

    Or you may submit your comments online through www.regulations.gov, 
referencing Docket ID Number [SSA-2016-0049].
    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 
December 2, 2016. Individuals can obtain copies of the collection 
instruments by writing to the above email address.
    1. Missing and Discrepant Wage Reports Letter and Questionnaire--26 
CFR 31.6051-2--0960-0432. Each year employers report the wage amounts 
they paid their employees to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for tax 
purposes, and separately to SSA for retirement and disability coverage 
purposes. Employers should report the same figures to both SSA and the 
IRS; however, each year some of the employer wage reports SSA receives 
show wage amounts lower than those

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employers report to the IRS. SSA uses Forms SSA-L93-SM, SSA-L94-SM, 
SSA-95-SM, and SSA-97-SM to ensure employees receive full credit for 
their wages. Respondents are employers who reported lower wage amounts 
to SSA than they reported to the IRS.
    Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information 
collection.

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                                                                                 Average burden  Total estimated
           Modality of completion                Number of       Frequency of     per response     total annual
                                                 responses         response        (minutes)      burden (hours)
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SSA-95-SM and SSA-97-SM (and accompanying            360,000                1               30          180,000
 cover letters SSA-L93, L94)................
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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, 
including 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 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  Total estimated
           Modality of completion                Number of       Frequency of     per response     total annual
                                                 responses         response        (minutes)      burden (hours)
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HA-82.......................................           2,500                1                5              208
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    3. Request for Waiver of Special Veterans Benefits (SVB) 
Overpayment Recovery or Change in Repayment Rate--20 CFR 408.900-
408.950--0960-0698. Title VIII of the Social Security Act (Act) 
requires SSA to pay a monthly benefit to qualified World War II 
veterans who reside outside the United States. When an overpayment in 
this SVB occurs, the beneficiary can request a waiver of recovery of 
the overpayment or a change in the repayment rate. SSA uses the SSA-
2032-BK to obtain the information necessary to establish whether the 
claimant meets the waiver of recovery provisions of the overpayment, 
and to determine the repayment rate if we do not waive repayment. 
Respondents are SVB beneficiaries who have overpayments on their Title 
VIII record and wish to file a claim for waiver of recovery or change 
in repayment rate.
    Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information 
collection.

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                                                                                 Average burden  Total estimated
           Modality of completion                Number of       Frequency of     per response     total annual
                                                 responses         response        (minutes)      burden (hours)
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SSA-2032-BK.................................             450                1              120              900
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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 November 2, 2016. Individuals can obtain copies of the 
OMB clearance packages by writing to [email protected].
    1. Travel Expense Reimbursement--20 CFR 404.999(d) and 416.1499--
0960-0434. The Act provides for travel expense reimbursement from 
Federal and State agencies for claimant travel incidental to medical 
examinations, and to parties, their representatives, and all reasonably 
necessary witnesses for travel exceeding 75 miles to attend medical 
examinations; reconsideration interviews; and proceedings before an 
administrative law judge. Reimbursement procedures require the claimant 
to provide: (1) A list of expenses incurred, and (2) receipts of such 
expenses. Federal and state personnel review the listings and receipts 
to verify the reimbursable amount to the requestor. The respondents are 
claimants for Title II benefits and Title XVI payments, their 
representatives, and witnesses.
    Type of Request: Extension of an OMB-approved information 
collection.

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                                                                                 Average burden     Estimated
           Modality of completion                Number of       Frequency of     per response    annual burden
                                                respondents        response         (minute)         (hours)
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404.99(d) & 416.1499........................          60,000                1               10           10,000
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    2. Disability Report--Child--20 CFR 416.912--0960-0577. Sections 
223 (d)(5)(A) and 1631(e)(1) of the Act require Supplemental Security 
Income (SSI) claimants to furnish medical and other evidence to prove 
they are disabled. SSA uses Form SSA-3820 to collect various types of 
information about a child's condition from treating sources or other 
medical sources of evidence. The State Disability Determination 
Services evaluators use this information from Form SSA-3820 to develop 
medical and school evidence, and to assess the alleged disability. This 
information, together with medical evidence, forms the evidentiary 
basis upon which SSA makes its initial disability evaluation. The 
respondents are claimants seeking SSI childhood disability payments.
    Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information 
collection.

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                                                                                  Average burden     Estimated
             Modality of completion                  Number of     Frequency of    per response    total annual
                                                    respondents      response        (minutes)    burden (hours)
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SSA-3820 (Paper Form)...........................         279,002               1              90         418,503
Electronic Disability Collection System.........           1,000               1             120           2,000
i3820 (Internet)................................         119,464               1             120         238,928
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    Totals......................................         399,466  ..............  ..............         659,431
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    Dated: September 28, 2016.
Naomi R. Sipple,
Reports Clearance Officer, Social Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 2016-23774 Filed 9-30-16; 8:45 am]
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