[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 57 (Friday, March 26, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16195-16196]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-06262]


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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION


Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program; Correction

AGENCY: Office of Federal Student Aid, Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice; correction.

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SUMMARY: On March 8, 2021, the Department of Education (Department) 
published in the Federal Register a notice announcing the 
reestablishment of a matching program between the Department and the 
Social Security Administration (SSA) to assist the Department in its 
obligation to ensure that applicants for student financial assistance 
under title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, satisfy 
eligibility requirements. This notice corrects language in that notice 
by removing references to an SSA-restricted data field, date of death, 
and by more closely mirroring the description of the purpose in the 
computer matching agreement. All other information in the March 8, 2021 
Federal Register notice, remains the same.

DATES: This correction is applicable on March 26, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gerard Duffey, Management and Program 
Analyst, Wanamaker Building, U.S. Department of Education, Federal 
Student Aid, 100 Penn Square East, Suite 509.B10, Philadelphia, PA 
19107. Telephone: (215) 656-3249.
    If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) or a text 
telephone (TTY), call the Federal Relay Service (FRS), toll-free, at 1-
800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Corrections:
    In FR Doc 2021-04710 appearing on page 13355-13356 in the Federal 
Register of March 8, 2021 (86 FR 13355), the following corrections are 
made:

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    1. On page 13356, in the first column, the two paragraphs under the 
heading ``Purpose(s)'' are revised to read as follows:
    The purpose of this matching program is to assist the U.S. 
Department of Education (ED) in its obligation to ensure that 
applicants for student financial assistance under Title IV of the 
Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA) (20 U.S.C. 1070 et 
seq.), satisfy eligibility requirements. This matching program 
establishes the terms, safeguards, and procedures under which the 
Social Security Administration (SSA) will provide ED Social Security 
number (SSN) verification, citizenship status as recorded in SSA 
records, and death indicators (when applicable).
    2. On page 13356, in the second column, in the second paragraph 
that follows the heading ``Categories of Records'', in the fourth 
sentence, remove ``date of death'' and, in its place, add ``death 
indicator''.
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Robin Minor,
Acting Chief Operating Officer, Federal Student Aid.
[FR Doc. 2021-06262 Filed 3-25-21; 8:45 am]
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