[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 220 (Tuesday, November 16, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 62241]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29858]
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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Request and
Comment Request
In compliance with Public Law 104-13, the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, SSA is providing notice of its information collections that
require submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). 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 on ways to minimize burden on
respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
I. The information collection listed below will be submitted to OMB
within 60 days from the date of this notice. Therefore, comments and
recommendations regarding the information collection would be most
useful if received by the Agency within 60 days from the date of this
publication. Comments should be directed to the SSA Reports Clearance
Officer at the address listed at the end of the notices. You can obtain
a copy of the collection instrument by calling the SSA Reports
Clearance Officer on (410) 965-4145, or by writing to him.
Annual Registration Statement Identifying Separated Participants
with Deferred Benefits, Schedule SSA--0960-0606 (1999 edition).
Schedule SSA is a form filed annually as part of a series of pension
plan documents required by Section 6057 of the IRS Code. Administrators
of pension benefit plans are required to report specific information on
future plan benefits for those participants who left plan coverage
during the year. SSA maintains the information until a claim for Social
Security benefits has been approved. At that time, SSA notifies the
beneficiary of his/her potential eligibility for payments from the
private pension plan. The respondents are administrators of pension
benefit plans or their service providers employed to prepare the
Schedule SSA on behalf of the pension benefit plan.
Below are the estimates of the cost and hour burdens for completing
and filing Schedule SSA(s). We have used an average to estimate the
hour burden. However, the burden may be greater or smaller depending on
whether the respondent is a large or small pension benefit plan and how
many Schedule SSA's are filed in a given year.
Number of Respondents: 88,000.
Frequency of Response: Annually.
Average Burden Per Respondent: 2.5 hours.
Estimated Annual Burden: 220,074 hours.
Estimated Annual Cost Burden for All Respondents: $12,194,400.
II. The information collection listed below has been submitted to
OMB for clearance. Written comments and recommendations on the
information collections would be most useful if received within 30 days
from the date of this publication. Comments should be directed to the
SSA Reports Clearance Officer and the OMB Desk Officer at the addresses
listed after this notice. You can obtain a copy of the OMB clearance
package by calling the SSA Reports Clearance Officer on (410) 965-4145,
or by writing to him.
Medical Use Report, 20 CFR 416.268-0960-0267. The information
required by this regulation is used by the Social Security
Administration to determine if an individual is entitled to special
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments. The respondents are SSI
receipts whose payments were stopped based on earnings.
Number of Respondents: 60,000.
Frequency of Response: 1.
Average Burden Per Response: 3 minutes.
Estimated Average Burden: 3,000 hours.
(SSA Address), Social Security Administration, DCFAM, Attn:
Frederick W. Brickenkamp, 6401 Security Blvd., 1-A-21 Operations Bldg.,
Baltimore, MD 21235.
(OMB Address), Office of Management and Budget, OIRA, Attn: Lori
Schack, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 725 17th St., NW,
Washington, DC 20503.
Dated: November 9, 1999.
Frederick W. Brickenkamp,
Reports Clearance Officer, Social Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-29858 Filed 11-15-99; 8:45 am]
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