[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 117 (Wednesday, June 18, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34824-34826]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-14207]
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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
Agency Information Collection Activities: 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 three revisions and one extension 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.
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(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].
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 July 18, 2014. Individuals can obtain copies of the OMB
clearance packages by writing to [email protected].
1. 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 Old Age,
Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) or Supplemental Security
Income (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 recipient's payments directly
and manages these payments. 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 Payees, and through the electronic
internet application Internet Representative Payee Accounting (iRPA).
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 burden
Modality of completion Number of respondents Frequency of per response Estimated total annual
response (minutes) burden (hours)
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SSA-623..................................................... 2,811,819 1 15 702,955
SSA-6230.................................................... 2,968,096 1 15 742,024
SSA-6234.................................................... 719,469 1 15 179,867
iRPA *...................................................... 650,000 1 15 162,500
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Totals.................................................. 7,149,384 .............. .............. 1,787,346
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* One Internet platform encompasses all three paper forms.
2. Statement of Income and Resources--20 CFR 416.207, 146.301-
416.310, 416.704, and 416.708--0960-0124. SSA collects information
about income and resources for SSI claims and redeterminations on the
SSA-8010-BK. SSA uses the information to make initial or continuing
eligibility determinations for SSI claimants or recipients who are
subject to deeming. The respondents are persons whose income and
resources SSA may deem (consider to be available) to SSI applicants or
recipients.
Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information
collection.
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Average burden Estimated total
Modality of completion Number of Frequency of per response annual burden
respondents response (minutes) (hours)
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SSA-8010-BK................................. 341,000 1 26 147,767
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3. Authorization to Obtain Earnings Data From the Social Security
Administration--0960-0602. On occasion, public and private
organizations and agencies, need to obtain detailed earnings
information about specific Social Security number (SSN) holding wage
earners for business purposes (e.g. pension funds, State agencies,
etc.). Respondents use Form SSA-581 to identify the SSN holder whose
information they are requesting, and provide authorization from the SSN
holder, when applicable. SSA uses the information provided on Form SSA-
581 to: (1) Identify the wage earner; (2) establish the period of
earnings information requested; (3) verify the wage earner authorized
SSA to release this information to the requesting party; and (4)
produce the Itemized Statement of Earnings (SSA-1826). The respondents
are private businesses, state or local agencies, and other federal
agencies.
Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information
collection.
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Average burden Estimated total
Modality of completion Number of Frequency of per response annual burden
respondents response (minutes) (hours)
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SSA-581..................................... 24,000 1 2 800
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4. Generic Clearance for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on
Agency Service Delivery--0960-0788. SSA, as part of our continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general
public to take this opportunity to comment on the ``Generic Clearance
for the Collection of Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service Delivery
'' for approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501
et. seq.). This collection was developed as part of a Federal
Government-wide effort to streamline the process for seeking feedback
from the public on service delivery.
Under the auspices of Executive Order 12862, Setting Customer
Service Standards, SSA conducts multiple satisfaction surveys each
year. This proposed information collection activity provides a means to
garner qualitative customer and stakeholder feedback in an efficient,
timely manner, in accordance with SSA's commitment to improving service
delivery. By qualitative feedback we mean information that provides
useful insights on perceptions and opinions, but are not statistical
surveys that yield quantitative results that can be generalized to the
population of study. This feedback will provide insights into customer
or stakeholder perceptions, experiences and expectations, provide an
early warning of issues with service, or focus attention on areas where
communication, training or changes in operations might improve delivery
of products or services. These collections will allow for ongoing,
collaborative, and actionable communications between SSA and our
customers and stakeholders.
The solicitation of feedback will target areas such as: Timeliness,
appropriateness, accuracy of information, courtesy, efficiency of
service delivery, and resolution of issues with service delivery.
Responses will be assessed to plan and inform efforts to improve or
maintain the quality of service offered to the public. If this
information is not collected, vital feedback from customers and
stakeholders on SSA's services will be unavailable.
We will only submit a collection for approval under this generic
clearance if it meets the following conditions: (1) The collections are
voluntary; (2) the collections are low-burden for respondents (based on
considerations of total burden hours, total number of respondents, or
burden-hours per respondent) and are low-cost for both the respondents
and the Federal Government; (3) the collections are non-controversial
and do not raise issues of concern to other Federal agencies; (4) any
collection targeted to the solicitation of opinions from respondents
who have experience with the program or may have experience with the
program in the near future; (5) personally identifiable information
(PII) is collected only to the extent necessary and is not retained;
(6) information gathered will be used only internally for general
service improvement and program management purposes and is not intended
for release outside of the agency; (7) information gathered will not be
used for the purpose of substantially informing influential policy
decisions; and (8) information gathered will yield qualitative
information; the collections will not be designed or expected to yield
statistically reliable results or used as though the results are
generalizable to the population of study.
Feedback collected under this generic clearance provides useful
information, but it does not yield data that can be generalized to the
overall population. This type of generic clearance for qualitative
information will not be used for quantitative information collections
that are designed to yield reliably actionable results, such as
monitoring trends over time or documenting program performance. Such
data uses require more rigorous designs that address the target
population to which generalizations will be made, the sampling frame,
the sample design (including stratification and clustering), the
precision requirements or power calculations that justify the proposed
sample size, the expected response rate, methods for assessing
potential non-response bias, the protocols for data collection, and any
testing procedures that were or will be undertaken prior to fielding
the study. Depending on the degree of influence the results are likely
to have, such collections may still be eligible for submission for
other generic mechanisms that are designed to yield quantitative
results.
As a general matter, information collections will not result in any
new system of records containing privacy information and will not ask
questions of a sensitive nature, such as sexual behavior and attitudes,
religious beliefs, and other matters that are commonly considered
private.
The respondents are recipients of SSA services (including most
members of the public), professionals, and individuals who work on
behalf of SSA beneficiaries.
Type of Request: Extension of an OMB-approved information
collection.
Affected Public: Individuals and households, businesses and
organizations, State, Local or Tribal government.
This is a correction notice: SSA published the incorrect burden
information for this collection at 79 FR 17632, on 03/28/14. We are
correcting this error here.
Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 46,530.
Below we provide projected average estimates for the next three
years:
Average Expected Annual Number of activities: 125.
Annual Respondents: 15,510.
Annual Responses: 15,510.
Frequency of Response: Once per request.
Average minutes per response: 41.53 minutes.
Estimated Annual Burden: 10,581 hours.
Dated: June 13, 2014.
Faye Lipsky,
Reports Clearance Director, Social Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 2014-14207 Filed 6-17-14; 8:45 am]
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