[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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