§ 435.953 - Identifying items of information to use.

Link to an amendment published at 77 FR 17212, Mar. 23, 2012.

The effective date of this amendment was changed to Oct. 1, 2013 at 78 FR 42300, July 15, 2013.

(a) With respect to information received on beneficiaries under §§ 435.940 through 435.960, the agency may either review and compare against the case file all items of information received or it may identify (target) separately for each data source the information items that are most likely to be most productive in identifying and preventing ineligibility and incorrect payments.

(b) An agency that wishes to exclude categories of information items must submit for the Secretary's approval a follow-up plan describing the categories that it proposes to exclude. For each category, the agency must provide a reasonable justification that follow-up is not cost-effective; a formal cost/benefit analysis is not required.

(c) If an agency receives an item of unemployment compensation information from the Internal Revenue Service or earnings information from SSA that duplicates an item of information previously received from another source and followed up, the agency may exclude that information item without justification.

(d) An agency may submit a follow-up plan or alter its plan at any time by notifying the Secretary and submitting the necessary justification. The Secretary approves or disapproves categories of items to be excluded under the plan within 60 days of its submission. The categories approved by the Secretary constitute an approved agency follow-up plan for IEVS.

[54 FR 8742, Mar. 2, 1989]