[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 115 (Wednesday, June 15, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35067-35068]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-14741]
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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
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 a request for one extension and two revisions 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, e-mail, 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. E-mail address: [email protected].
(SSA)
Social Security Administration, DCBFM, Attn: Reports Clearance
Officer, 1333 Annex Building, 6401 Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21235.
Fax: 410-965-6400. E-mail address: [email protected].
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
August 15, 2011. Individuals can obtain copies of the collection
instruments by calling the SSA Reports Clearance Officer at 410-965-
8783 or by writing to the above e-mail address.
1. Application for Benefits under a U.S. International Social
Security Agreement--20 CFR 404.1925--0960-0448. Section 233(a) of the
Social Security Act (Act) authorizes the President to broker
international Social Security agreements (totalization agreements)
between the United States and foreign countries. SSA collects
information using form SSA-2490-BK to determine entitlement to Social
Security benefits from the United States, or from a country that enters
into a totalization agreement with the United States. The respondents
are individuals applying for Old Age Survivors and Disability Insurance
(OASDI) benefits from the United States or from a totalization
agreement country.
Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information
collection.
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Average Total
Number of Frequency of burden per annual
Form number respondents response response burden
(minutes) (hours)
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SSA-2490-BK (Modernized Claims System)................. 14,000 1 30 7,000
SSA-2490-BK (paper).................................... 2,000 1 30 1,000
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Totals............................................. 16,000 .............. .............. 8,000
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2. Plan for Achieving Self-Support (PASS)--20 CFR 416.110(e),
416.1180-1182, 416.1225-1227--0960-0559. The Supplemental Security
Income (SSI) program encourages recipients to return to work. One of
the program objectives
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is to provide incentives and opportunities that help recipients to do
this. The PASS provision allows individuals to use available income or
resources (such as business equipment, education, or specialized
training) to enter (or re-enter) the workforce and become self-
supporting. In turn, SSA does not count the income or resources
recipients use to fund a PASS when determining an individual's SSI
eligibility or payment amount. An SSI recipient who wants to use
available income and resources to obtain education or training to
become self-supporting completes the SSA-545. SSA uses the information
from the SSA-545 to evaluate the recipient's plan for achieving self-
support, and to determine eligibility under the provisions of the SSI
program. The respondents are SSI recipients who are blind or disabled
and want to develop a plan to work.
Type of Request: Extension of an OMB-approved information
collection.
Number of Respondents: 7,000.
Frequency of Response: 1.
Average Burden Per Response: 2 hours.
Estimated Annual Burden: 14,000 hours.
II. SSA submitted the information collection below to OMB for
clearance. Your comments regarding the information collection would be
most useful if OMB and SSA receive them within 30 days from the date of
this publication. To be sure we consider your comments, we must receive
them no later than July 15, 2011. Individuals can obtain copies of the
OMB clearance package by calling the SSA Reports Clearance Officer at
410-965-8783 or by writing to the above e-mail address.
Representative Payee Report--Adult, Representative Payee Report--
Child, Representative Payee Report--Organizational Representative
Payees--20 CFR 404.635, 404.2035, 404.2065, and 416.665--0960-0068.
When SSA determines it is not in an OASDI or SSI recipient's best
interest to receive Social Security payments directly, the agency will
designate a representative payee for the recipient. The representative
payee can be: (1) A family member; (2) a non-family member who is a
private citizen and is acquainted with the beneficiary; (3) an
organization; (4) a state or local government agency; or (5) a
business. In the capacity of representative payee, the person or
organization receives the SSA payments directly and manages these
payments for the recipient. As part of its stewardship mandate, SSA
must ensure the representative payees are properly using the payments
they receive for the recipients they represent. The agency annually
collects the information necessary to make this assessment using the
SSA-623, Representative Payee Report--Adult; SSA-6230, Representative
Payee Report--Child; SSA-6234, Representative Payee Report--
Organizational Representative Payee; and through the Internet
Representative Payee Accounting (iRPA) application. The respondents are
representative payees of OASDI and SSI recipients.
Type of Request: Revision to an OMB-approved information
collection.
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Average
Number of Frequency of burden per Total annual
Form No. respondents response response burden (hours)
(minutes)
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SSA-623......................................... 2,378,400 1 15 594,600
SSA-6230........................................ 2,875,900 1 15 718,975
SSA-6234........................................ 702,100 1 15 175,525
iRPA*........................................... 652,500 1 15 163,125
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Totals...................................... 6,608,900 .............. .............. 1,652,225
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* One Internet platform encompasses all three paper forms.
Dated: June 9, 2011.
Liz Davidson,
Center Director, Center for Reports Clearance, Social Security
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2011-14741 Filed 6-14-11; 8:45 am]
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