[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 53 (Tuesday, March 19, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10132-10133]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-05099]
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
Privacy Act of 1974; Computer Matching Program Between the Office
of Personnel Management and Social Security Administration
AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
ACTION: Notice of a re-established matching program.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended by the
Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988 and the Computer
Matching and Privacy Protections Amendment of 1990 (Privacy Act), and
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance on the conduct of
matching programs, notice is hereby given of the re-establishment of a
matching program between the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and
the Social Security Administration (SSA) (Computer Matching Agreement
1018).
DATES: Please submit comments on or before April 18, 2019. The matching
program will begin on April 18, 2019 unless comments have been received
from interested members of the public that require modification and
republication of the notice. The matching program will continue for 18
months from the beginning date and may be extended an additional 12
months if the respective agency Data Integrity Boards determine that
the conditions specified in 5 U.S.C. 552a(o)(2)(D) have been met.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments via mail to: Deon Mason, Chief,
Business Services, Retirement Management and Services, Retirement
Services, Office of Personnel Management, Room 3316-G, 1900 E Street
NW, Washington, DC 20415, or via email at [email protected]. You may
also submit comments, identified by docket number and title, at the
Federal Rulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov by following the
instructions for submitting comments.
All submissions received must include the agency name and docket
number for this document. The general policy for comments and other
submissions from members of the public is to make these submissions
available for public viewing at http://www.regulations.gov as they are
received without change, including any personal identifiers or contact
information.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bernard A. Wells III, Retirement
Services, Office of Personnel Management, at (202) 606-2730.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974,
as amended by the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988
and the Computer Matching and Privacy Protections Amendment of 1990
(Privacy Act), and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance on
the conduct of matching programs, including OMB Final Guidance
Interpreting the Provisions of Public Law 100-53 (published in the
Federal Register on June 19, 1989 (54 FR 25818) and OMB Circular A-108,
notice is hereby given of the re-establishment of a matching program
between the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Social
Security Administration (SSA). This matching program, Computer Matching
Agreement 1018, is being re-established to redetermine and recompute
the benefits of certain annuitants and survivors whose computations are
based, in part, on military service performed after December 1956 under
the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS), and of certain annuitants
and survivors whose annuity computation under the Federal Employees
Retirement System (FERS) have a CSRS component.
Participating Agencies: OPM and SSA.
Authority for Conducting the Matching Program: OPM's authority to
participate in this matching program derives from 5 U.S.C. 8332(j) and
8422(e)4 SSA is authorized to participate in this matching program
pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 1306.
Purpose(s): The purpose of this matching program is to set forth
the terms, conditions and safeguards under which the Social Security
Administration (SSA) will disclose tax return and Social Security
benefit information to the Office of Personnel Management. OPM will use
the disclosed information to redetermine and recompute the benefits of
certain annuitants and survivors whose computations are based, in part,
on military service performed after December 1956 under the Civil
Service Retirement System and of certain annuitants and survivors whose
annuity computation under the Federal Employees Retirement System
(FERS) have a CSRS component.
Categories of Individuals: The individuals about whom OPM maintains
information that are involved in this matching program include retired
Federal employees and survivors whose annuity computations are based,
in part, on military service performed after December 31, 1956 and who
also receive benefits from SSA.
Category of Records: The categories of records involved in the data
match from OPM include information about those individuals who have
applied for or are eligible for both OPM and SSA benefits as described
above. OPM will provide name, SSN, date of birth, alleged dates of
military service, alleged service branch, and in survivor cases, date
of death of the individuals for whom OPM requests information. These
elements will be matched against SSA records. SSA will provide tax
information (amount of earnings and military wages for the relevant
time period and Social Security benefit information, the SSN, Social
Security monthly benefit amount and the amount of the SSA benefit
attributable to post-1956 military service.
System(s) of Records: OPM's system of records involved in this
matching program is designated OPM/Central-1, Civil Service Retirement
and Insurance Records 73 FR 15013 (March 20, 2008), as amended 80 FR
74815 (November 30, 2015).
SSA's systems of records involved in this matching program is the
Master Beneficiary Record (MBR), 60-0090, 71 FR 1826 (Jan. 11, 2006),
as amended at 72 FR 69723 (Dec. 10, 2007), 78 FR 40542 (July 5, 2013)
and 83 FR 31250-31251 (July 3, 2018). Additionally SSA will disclose
data from the MEF file (60-0059, Earnings Recording and Self-Employment
Income system) last fully published on January 11, 2006, at 71 FR 1819
and amended on July 5, 2013 at 78 FR 40542 and from the ``1086''
microfilm file, published on January 11, 2006 at 71 FR 1796.
Alexys Stanley,
Regulatory Affairs Analyst.
[FR Doc. 2019-05099 Filed 3-18-19; 8:45 am]
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