Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program, 17528 [2024-05098]

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• Office of Personnel Management

[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 48 (Monday, March 11, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 17528]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-05098]


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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

[Docket ID: OPM-2024-0004]


Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program

AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management.

ACTION: Notice of a new matching program.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended by the 
Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988 and the Computer 
Matching Privacy Protections Amendment of 1990 (Privacy Act), and 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance on the conduct of 
matching programs, notice is hereby given of the reestablishment of a 
matching program between the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and 
the Social Security Administration (SSA) (Computer Matching Agreement 
1071), the purpose of which is to assist OPM in meeting its legal 
obligation to offset its payments to disability annuitants, child 
survivor annuitants, and spousal survivor annuitants who receive 
benefits from OPM.

DATES: Please submit comments on or before April 10, 2024. The matching 
program will begin on April 26, 2024, unless comments have been 
received from interested members of the public that require 
modification and republication of the notice. The matching program will 
continue for 18 months from the beginning date and may be extended for 
an additional 12 months if the respective agency Data Integrity Boards 
determine that the conditions specified in 5 U.S.C. 552a(o)(D) have 
been met.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments via mail to: Stanley McMichael, 
Resource Management Officer, Retirement Services and Management, 
Retirement Services, Office of Personnel Management, Room 3316, 1900 E. 
Street NW Washington, DC 20415 or via email at 
[email protected]. You may also submit comments, identified by 
docket number and title, at the Federal Rulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov by following the instructions for submitting 
comments. All submissions received must include the agency name and 
docket number for this document. The general policy for comments and 
other submissions from members of the public is to make these 
submissions available for public viewing at https://www.regulations.gov 
as they are received without change, including any personal identifiers 
or contact information.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa Morgan, Retirement Services, 
Office of Personnel Management, at (202) 936-0866.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, 
as amended by the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988 
and the Computer Matching Privacy Protection Amendment of 1990 (Privacy 
Act), and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance on the conduct 
of matching programs, including OMB Final Guidance Interpreting the 
Provision of Public Law 100-53 (published in the Federal Register on 
June 19, 1989 (54 FR 25818) and OMB Circular A-108, notice is hereby 
given of a re-established matching program between the Office of 
Personnel Management (OPM) and the Social Security Administration 
(SSA). This matching program, Computer Matching Agreement 1071, is 
being reestablished to enable SSA to disclose benefit information 
regarding individuals who receive benefits from SSA under title II of 
the Social Security Act (Act).
    OPM will match SSA's information with OPM's records to determine 
eligibility for these benefits and compute the benefits it provides to 
these individuals at the correct rate.

PARTICIPATING AGENCIES:
    OPM and SSA.

AUTHORITY FOR CONDUCTING THE MATCHING PROGRAM:
    Legal authorities for the disclosures under this agreement are 5 
U.S.C. 8442(f), 8443(a), 8452(a)(2)(A), and 8461(h)(1). The legal 
authority for SSA's disclosures under this agreement are section 1106 
of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1306), the Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 
552a(b)), and section 7213(a) of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism 
Prevention Act of 2004 (42 U.S.C. 405 note).

PURPOSE(S):
    The purpose of this agreement between OPM and SSA is to assist OPM 
in meeting its legal obligation to offset its payments to disability 
annuitants, child survivor annuitants, and spousal survivor annuitants 
who receive benefits from OPM.

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS:
    The individuals whose information is involved in this matching 
program are Disability Annuitants, Children Survivor Annuitants, and 
Spousal Survivor Annuitants. SSA will provide information about these 
individuals by referencing their master file of all individuals with 
Social Security numbers (SSN).

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS:
    The categories of records involved in this matching program include 
the full name, SSN, date of birth, and necessary SVES indicator. In 
turn, SSA will match the record against SSA's Master Beneficiary Record 
(MBR) system of records, 60-0090, and provide OPM with individuals' 
beneficiary status under title II of the Act and associated benefit 
data from the MBR via the State Verification and Exchange System 
(SVES).

SYSTEM(S) OF RECORDS:
    OPM's system of records involved in this matching program is OPM/
Central-1, Civil Service Retirement and Insurance Published at 73 FR 
15013 (March 20, 2008) and 87 FR 5874 (February 2, 2022). SSA's systems 
of records involved in this matching program are the Master Files of 
Social Security Number (SSN) Holders and SSN Applications (Enumeration 
System), 60-0058, last fully published at 87 FR 263 (January 4, 2022); 
the Master Beneficiary Record (MBR), 60-0090, last fully published at 
71 FR 1826 (January 11, 2006), as updated at 72 FR 69723 (December 10, 
2007); 78 FR 40542 (July 5, 2013); 83 FR 31250-31251 (July 3, 2018); 
and 83 FR 54969 (November 1, 2018).

Office of Personnel Management.
Kayyonne Marston,
Federal Register Liaison.
[FR Doc. 2024-05098 Filed 3-8-24; 8:45 am]
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