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Proposed Collection; Comment
Request
In accordance with the requirement of
section 3506 (c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 which provides
opportunity for public comment on new
or revised data collections, the Railroad
Retirement Board (RRB) will publish
periodic summaries of proposed data
collections.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed information collection is
necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including
whether the information has practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the RRB’s
estimate of the burden of the collection
of the information; (c) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
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information to be collected; and (d)
ways to minimize the burden related to
the collection of information on
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
1. Title and purpose of information
collection: Application for Employee
Annuity Under the Railroad Retirement
Act; OMB 3220–0002.
Section 2(a) of the Railroad
Retirement Act (RRA) (45 U.S.C. 231a)
provides for payments of age and
service, disability, and supplemental
annuities to qualified employees. An
annuity cannot be paid until the
employee stops working for a railroad
employer. In addition, the age and
service employee must relinquish any
rights held to such jobs. A disabled
employee does not need to relinquish
employee rights until attaining Full
Retirement Age, or if earlier, when their
spouse is awarded a spouse annuity.
Benefits become payable after the
employee meets certain other
requirements, which depend on the type
of annuity payable. The requirements
for obtaining the annuities are
prescribed in 20 CFR parts 216 and 220.
To collect the information needed to
help determine an applicant’s
entitlement to, and the amount of, an
employee retirement annuity the RRB
uses Forms AA–1, Application for
Employee Annuity; AA–1d, Application
for Determination of Employee
Disability; G–204, Verification of
Workers Compensation/Public Disability
Benefit Information, and electronic
Forms AA–1cert, Application Summary
and Certification, AA–1sum,
Application Summary, and AA–1
(internet), Application for Employee
Annuity.
The AA–1 application process obtains
information from an applicant about
their marital history, work history,
military service, benefits from other
governmental agencies, railroad
pensions and Medicare entitlement for
either an age and service or disability
annuity. An RRB representative
interviews the applicant either at a field
office, an itinerant point, or by
telephone. During the interview, the
RRB representative enters the
information obtained into an on-line
information system. Upon completion of
the interview, the on-line information
system generates Form AA–1cert,
Application Summary and Certification,
or Form AA–1sum, Application
Summary, a summary of the information
that was provided for the applicant to
review and approve. Form AA–1cert
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documents approval using the
traditional pen and ink ‘‘wet’’ signature,
and Form AA–1sum documents
approval using the alternative signature
method called Attestation. When the
RRB representative is unable to contact
the applicant in person or by telephone,
for example, the applicant lives in
another country, a manual version of
Form AA–1 is used.
Form AA–1d, Application for
Determination of Employee’s Disability,
is completed by an employee who is
filing for a disability annuity under the
RRA, or a disability freeze under the
Social Security Act, for early Medicare
based on a disability. Form G–204,
Verification of Worker’s Compensation/
Public Disability Benefit Information, is
used to obtain and verify information
concerning a worker’s compensation or
a public disability benefit that is or will
be paid by a public agency to a disabled
railroad employee. Form AA–1
(internet) can be completed by the
applicant and submitted through the
RRB’s website at www.rrb.gov. One
response is requested of each
respondent. Completion of the forms is
required to obtain/retain a benefit. The
RRB proposes no changes to Form AA–
1, Form AA–1 (internet), Form AA–
1cert, AA–1sum and Form G–204.
The RRB proposes the following
changes to Form AA–1d:
• Section 1, General Instructions, the
date is being updated to 06/06/24,
• Section 6, Information About Your
Daily Activities, add ‘‘Sleeping’’ to the
activity list for question 34,
• Section 6, Information about Your
Daily Activities, add a question 35b,
‘‘Describe and explain if your condition
affects your memory, concentration, or
ability to understand and follow
instructions. (Include when this change
began.)’’,
• Section 7, Information About Your
Work and Earnings, question 43, update
to 12–2024 in example,
• Section 11, Certification, question
63, remove the word ‘‘criminal’’ from
the sentence to read ‘‘I know that if I am
receiving a disability annuity and fail to
report work and earnings promptly, I am
committing a crime punishable by
Federal law that may result in
prosecution and/or penalty deductions
in my annuity payments’’,
• Corrected the abbreviation word
‘‘Cont.’’ to ‘‘Continued’’ throughout
form, and
• Correct grammar, spacing, heading
and other issues within the form for
consistency.
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ESTIMATE OF ANNUAL RESPONDENT BURDEN
Annual
responses
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Form No.
Time
(minutes)
Burden
(hours)
AA–1 (without assistance) ...........................................................................................................
AA–1cert (with assistance) ..........................................................................................................
AA–1sum (with assistance) .........................................................................................................
AA–1 (internet) (without assistance) ...........................................................................................
AA–1d (with assistance) ..............................................................................................................
AA–1d (without assistance) .........................................................................................................
G–204 ..........................................................................................................................................
30
5,425
2,750
0
2,600
5
20
62
30
29
45
60
90
15
31
2,712
1,329
0
2,600
7
5
Total ......................................................................................................................................
10,830
........................
6,902
2. Title and purpose of information
collection: Application for Survivor
Insurance Annuities; OMB 3220–0030.
Under section 2(d) of the Railroad
Retirement Act (RRA) (45 U.S.C. 231a),
monthly survivor annuities are payable
to surviving widow(er)s, parents,
unmarried children, and in certain
cases, divorced spouses, mothers
(fathers), remarried widow(er)s, and
grandchildren of deceased railroad
employees if there are no qualified
survivors of the employee immediately
eligible for an annuity. The
requirements relating to the annuities
are prescribed in 20 CFR parts 216, 217,
218, and 219.
To collect the information needed to
help determine an applicant’s
entitlement to, and the amount of, a
survivor annuity the RRB uses Forms
AA–17, Application for Widow(er)’s
Annuity; AA–17b, Applications for
Determination of Widow(er)’s Disability;
AA–18, Application for Mother’s/
Father’s and Child’s Annuity; AA–19,
Application for Child’s Annuity; AA–
19a, Application for Determination of
Child’s Disability; AA–20, Application
for Parent’s Annuity, and electronic
Forms AA–17cert, Application
Summary and Certification and AA–
17sum, Application Summary.
The on-line automated survivor
annuity application (Forms AA–17,
AA–18, AA–19, and AA–20) process
obtains information about an applicant’s
marital history, work history, benefits
from other government agencies, and
Medicare entitlement for a survivor
annuity. An RRB representative
interviews the applicant either at a field
office (preferred), an itinerant point, or
by telephone. During the interview, the
RRB representative enters the
information obtained into an on-line
information system. Upon completion of
the interview, the system generates, for
the applicant’s review, either Form AA–
17cert or AA–17sum, which provides a
summary of the information that the
applicant provided or verified. Form
AA–17cert, Application Summary and
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Certification, requires a tradition pen
and ink ‘‘wet’’ signature. Form AA–
17sum, Application Summary,
documents the alternate signing method
called ‘‘Attestation,’’ which is an action
taken by the RRB representative to
confirm and annotate in the RRB
records (1) the applicant’s intent to file
an application; (2) the applicant’s
affirmation under penalty of perjury that
the information provided is correct; and
(3) the applicant’s agreement to sign the
application by proxy. When the RRB
representative is unable to contact the
applicant in person or by telephone, for
example, the applicant lives in another
country, a manual version of the
appropriate form is used. One response
is requested of each respondent.
Completion of the forms is required to
obtain a benefit.
The RRB proposes no changes to
forms AA–17cert.
The RRB proposes the following
changes to Form AA–17b:
• Section 1, General Instructions, the
date is being updated to 12/13/24,
• Section 6, Information About Your
Daily Activities, remove the word
‘‘even’’ from question 33 in sentence
‘‘NOT AT ALL—I cannot do the activity
even with or without assistance’’,
• Section 6, Information About Your
Daily Activities, add ‘‘Sleeping’’ to the
activity list for question 33,
• Section 6, Information About Your
Daily Activities, rename question 34 to
be question 34a,
• Section 6, Information about Your
Daily Activities, add a question 34b,
‘‘Describe and explain if your condition
affects your memory, concentration, or
ability to understand and follow
instructions. (Include when this change
began.)’’,
• Section 7, Information About Your
Work and Earnings, question 46, update
to 12–2024 in example,
• Section 10, Certification, question
65, remove the word ‘‘criminal’’ from
the sentence to read ‘‘I know that if I am
receiving a disability annuity and fail to
report work and earnings promptly, I am
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committing a crime punishable by
Federal law that may result in
prosecution and/or penalty deductions
in my annuity payments’’, and
• Correct grammar, spacing, and
heading issues within the form for
consistency
The RRB proposes the following
changes to Form AA–19a:
• Section 1, General Instructions, the
date is being updated to 12/13/24,
• Section 5, Information About Your
Daily Activities, remove the word
‘‘even’’ from question 28 in sentence
‘‘NOT AT ALL—I cannot do the activity
even with or without assistance’’,
• Section 5, Information About The
Child’s Daily Activities, add ‘‘Sleeping’’
to the activity list for question 28.
• Section 5, Information About The
Child’s Daily Activities, rename
question 29 to be question 29a.
• Section 5, Information about Your
Daily Activities, add a question 29b,
‘‘Describe and explain if your condition
affects your memory, concentration, or
ability to understand and follow
instructions. (Include when this change
began.)’’
• Section 7, Information About Your
Work and Earnings, question 74, update
to 12–2024 in example.
• Section 10, Certification, question
99, remove the word ‘‘criminal’’ from
the sentence to read ‘‘I know that if I am
receiving a disability annuity and fail to
report work and earnings promptly, I am
committing a crime punishable by
Federal law that may result in
prosecution and/or penalty deductions
in my annuity payments’’, and
• Correct grammar, spacing, and
heading issues within the form for
consistency.
The RRB proposes minor changes to
the Form AA–17sum:
• Update the outdated office hours
with a link to the RRB website and the
toll-free number, and
• Remove the date that the applicant
would be notified of a decision in the
application process.
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ESTIMATE OF ANNUAL RESPONDENT BURDEN
Annual
responses
Form No.
AA–17 Application Process:
AA–17cert .............................................................................................................................
AA–17sum ............................................................................................................................
AA–17b:
(With assistance) ..................................................................................................................
(Without assistance) .............................................................................................................
AA–19a:
(With assistance) ..................................................................................................................
(Without assistance) .............................................................................................................
Total ...............................................................................................................................
3. Title and purpose of information
collection: Continuing Disability Report;
OMB 3220–0187.
Under Section 2 of the Railroad
Retirement Act (45 U.S.C. 231a), an
annuity is not payable or is reduced for
any month in which the annuitant
works for a railroad or earns more than
prescribed dollar amounts from either
non-railroad employment or selfemployment. Certain types of work may
indicate an annuitant’s recovery from
disability. The provisions relating to the
reduction or non-payment of an annuity
by reason of work, and an annuitant’s
recovery from disability for work, are
prescribed in 20 CFR 220.17–220.20.
The RRB conducts continuing disability
reviews (CDR) to determine whether an
annuitant continues to meet the
disability requirements of the law.
Provisions relating to when and how
often the RRB conducts CDR’s are
prescribed in 20 CFR 220.186.
Form G–254, Continuing Disability
Report, is used by the RRB to develop
information for a CDR determination,
including a determination prompted by
a report of work, return to railroad
service, allegation of medical
improvement, or a routine disability
review call-up.
The RRB proposes the following
changes to Form G–254:
• Section 5, Information about Your
Condition before Full Retirement Age,
remove the word ‘‘even’’ from question
31a in sentence ‘‘NOT AT ALL—I
cannot do the activity even with or
without assistance’’,
• Section 5, Information about Your
Condition before Full Retirement Age,
Time
(minutes)1/
Burden
(hours)
900
2,100
20
19
300
665
175
20
50
60
146
18
200
15
50
70
167
18
3,410
........................
1,314
add ‘‘Sleeping’’ to the activity list for
question 31a,
• Section 5, Information about Your
Condition before Full Retirement Age,
add a question 31e, ‘‘Describe and
explain if your condition affects your
memory, concentration, or ability to
understand and follow instructions.
(Include when this change began.)’’, and
• Correct grammar, spacing, and
heading issues within the form for
consistency.
Form G–254a, Continuing Disability
Update Report, is used to help identify
a disability annuitant whose work
activity and/or recent medical history
warrants completion of Form G–254 for
a more extensive review. The RRB
proposes no changes to Form G–254a.
ESTIMATE OF ANNUAL RESPONDENT BURDEN
Annual
responses
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Form No.
Time
(minutes)1/
Burden
(hours)
G–254:
Annuitant ...............................................................................................................................
Employer verification ............................................................................................................
Doctor, hospital, or clinic verification ....................................................................................
Vocational, Rehabilitation Counselor verification .................................................................
Other governmental agency verification ...............................................................................
School verification ................................................................................................................
G–254a ........................................................................................................................................
900
100
100
100
100
100
1,350
40
5
5
5
5
5
5
600
8
8
8
8
8
113
Total ...............................................................................................................................
2,750
........................
753
Additional Information or Comments:
To request more information or to
obtain a copy of the information
collection justification, forms, and/or
supporting material, contact Kennisha
Money at (312) 469–2591 or
Kennisha.Money@rrb.gov. Comments
regarding the information collection
should be addressed to Brian Foster,
Railroad Retirement Board, 844 North
Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611–
1275 or emailed to Brian.Foster@rrb.gov.
Written comments should be received
within 60 days of this notice.
Brian Foster,
Clearance Officer.
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RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
Proposed Collection; Comment Request
In accordance with the requirement of section 3506 (c)(2)(A) of the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 which provides opportunity for public
comment on new or revised data collections, the Railroad Retirement
Board (RRB) will publish periodic summaries of proposed data
collections.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed information
collection is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information has practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the RRB's estimate of the burden of the collection
of the information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize
the burden related to the collection of information on respondents,
including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
1. Title and purpose of information collection: Application for
Employee Annuity Under the Railroad Retirement Act; OMB 3220-0002.
Section 2(a) of the Railroad Retirement Act (RRA) (45 U.S.C. 231a)
provides for payments of age and service, disability, and supplemental
annuities to qualified employees. An annuity cannot be paid until the
employee stops working for a railroad employer. In addition, the age
and service employee must relinquish any rights held to such jobs. A
disabled employee does not need to relinquish employee rights until
attaining Full Retirement Age, or if earlier, when their spouse is
awarded a spouse annuity. Benefits become payable after the employee
meets certain other requirements, which depend on the type of annuity
payable. The requirements for obtaining the annuities are prescribed in
20 CFR parts 216 and 220.
To collect the information needed to help determine an applicant's
entitlement to, and the amount of, an employee retirement annuity the
RRB uses Forms AA-1, Application for Employee Annuity; AA-1d,
Application for Determination of Employee Disability; G-204,
Verification of Workers Compensation/Public Disability Benefit
Information, and electronic Forms AA-1cert, Application Summary and
Certification, AA-1sum, Application Summary, and AA-1 (internet),
Application for Employee Annuity.
The AA-1 application process obtains information from an applicant
about their marital history, work history, military service, benefits
from other governmental agencies, railroad pensions and Medicare
entitlement for either an age and service or disability annuity. An RRB
representative interviews the applicant either at a field office, an
itinerant point, or by telephone. During the interview, the RRB
representative enters the information obtained into an on-line
information system. Upon completion of the interview, the on-line
information system generates Form AA-1cert, Application Summary and
Certification, or Form AA-1sum, Application Summary, a summary of the
information that was provided for the applicant to review and approve.
Form AA-1cert documents approval using the traditional pen and ink
``wet'' signature, and Form AA-1sum documents approval using the
alternative signature method called Attestation. When the RRB
representative is unable to contact the applicant in person or by
telephone, for example, the applicant lives in another country, a
manual version of Form AA-1 is used.
Form AA-1d, Application for Determination of Employee's Disability,
is completed by an employee who is filing for a disability annuity
under the RRA, or a disability freeze under the Social Security Act,
for early Medicare based on a disability. Form G-204, Verification of
Worker's Compensation/Public Disability Benefit Information, is used to
obtain and verify information concerning a worker's compensation or a
public disability benefit that is or will be paid by a public agency to
a disabled railroad employee. Form AA-1 (internet) can be completed by
the applicant and submitted through the RRB's website at www.rrb.gov.
One response is requested of each respondent. Completion of the forms
is required to obtain/retain a benefit. The RRB proposes no changes to
Form AA-1, Form AA-1 (internet), Form AA-1cert, AA-1sum and Form G-204.
The RRB proposes the following changes to Form AA-1d:
Section 1, General Instructions, the date is being updated
to 06/06/24,
Section 6, Information About Your Daily Activities, add
``Sleeping'' to the activity list for question 34,
Section 6, Information about Your Daily Activities, add a
question 35b, ``Describe and explain if your condition affects your
memory, concentration, or ability to understand and follow
instructions. (Include when this change began.)'',
Section 7, Information About Your Work and Earnings,
question 43, update to 12-2024 in example,
Section 11, Certification, question 63, remove the word
``criminal'' from the sentence to read ``I know that if I am receiving
a disability annuity and fail to report work and earnings promptly, I
am committing a crime punishable by Federal law that may result in
prosecution and/or penalty deductions in my annuity payments'',
Corrected the abbreviation word ``Cont.'' to ``Continued''
throughout form, and
Correct grammar, spacing, heading and other issues within
the form for consistency.
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Estimate of Annual Respondent Burden
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Annual
Form No. responses Time (minutes) Burden (hours)
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AA-1 (without assistance)....................................... 30 62 31
AA-1cert (with assistance)...................................... 5,425 30 2,712
AA-1sum (with assistance)....................................... 2,750 29 1,329
AA-1 (internet) (without assistance)............................ 0 45 0
AA-1d (with assistance)......................................... 2,600 60 2,600
AA-1d (without assistance)...................................... 5 90 7
G-204........................................................... 20 15 5
-----------------------------------------------
Total....................................................... 10,830 .............. 6,902
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2. Title and purpose of information collection: Application for
Survivor Insurance Annuities; OMB 3220-0030.
Under section 2(d) of the Railroad Retirement Act (RRA) (45 U.S.C.
231a), monthly survivor annuities are payable to surviving widow(er)s,
parents, unmarried children, and in certain cases, divorced spouses,
mothers (fathers), remarried widow(er)s, and grandchildren of deceased
railroad employees if there are no qualified survivors of the employee
immediately eligible for an annuity. The requirements relating to the
annuities are prescribed in 20 CFR parts 216, 217, 218, and 219.
To collect the information needed to help determine an applicant's
entitlement to, and the amount of, a survivor annuity the RRB uses
Forms AA-17, Application for Widow(er)'s Annuity; AA-17b, Applications
for Determination of Widow(er)'s Disability; AA-18, Application for
Mother's/Father's and Child's Annuity; AA-19, Application for Child's
Annuity; AA-19a, Application for Determination of Child's Disability;
AA-20, Application for Parent's Annuity, and electronic Forms AA-
17cert, Application Summary and Certification and AA-17sum, Application
Summary.
The on-line automated survivor annuity application (Forms AA-17,
AA-18, AA-19, and AA-20) process obtains information about an
applicant's marital history, work history, benefits from other
government agencies, and Medicare entitlement for a survivor annuity.
An RRB representative interviews the applicant either at a field office
(preferred), an itinerant point, or by telephone. During the interview,
the RRB representative enters the information obtained into an on-line
information system. Upon completion of the interview, the system
generates, for the applicant's review, either Form AA-17cert or AA-
17sum, which provides a summary of the information that the applicant
provided or verified. Form AA-17cert, Application Summary and
Certification, requires a tradition pen and ink ``wet'' signature. Form
AA-17sum, Application Summary, documents the alternate signing method
called ``Attestation,'' which is an action taken by the RRB
representative to confirm and annotate in the RRB records (1) the
applicant's intent to file an application; (2) the applicant's
affirmation under penalty of perjury that the information provided is
correct; and (3) the applicant's agreement to sign the application by
proxy. When the RRB representative is unable to contact the applicant
in person or by telephone, for example, the applicant lives in another
country, a manual version of the appropriate form is used. One response
is requested of each respondent. Completion of the forms is required to
obtain a benefit.
The RRB proposes no changes to forms AA-17cert.
The RRB proposes the following changes to Form AA-17b:
Section 1, General Instructions, the date is being updated
to 12/13/24,
Section 6, Information About Your Daily Activities, remove
the word ``even'' from question 33 in sentence ``NOT AT ALL--I cannot
do the activity even with or without assistance'',
Section 6, Information About Your Daily Activities, add
``Sleeping'' to the activity list for question 33,
Section 6, Information About Your Daily Activities, rename
question 34 to be question 34a,
Section 6, Information about Your Daily Activities, add a
question 34b, ``Describe and explain if your condition affects your
memory, concentration, or ability to understand and follow
instructions. (Include when this change began.)'',
Section 7, Information About Your Work and Earnings,
question 46, update to 12-2024 in example,
Section 10, Certification, question 65, remove the word
``criminal'' from the sentence to read ``I know that if I am receiving
a disability annuity and fail to report work and earnings promptly, I
am committing a crime punishable by Federal law that may result in
prosecution and/or penalty deductions in my annuity payments'', and
Correct grammar, spacing, and heading issues within the
form for consistency
The RRB proposes the following changes to Form AA-19a:
Section 1, General Instructions, the date is being updated
to 12/13/24,
Section 5, Information About Your Daily Activities, remove
the word ``even'' from question 28 in sentence ``NOT AT ALL--I cannot
do the activity even with or without assistance'',
Section 5, Information About The Child's Daily Activities,
add ``Sleeping'' to the activity list for question 28.
Section 5, Information About The Child's Daily Activities,
rename question 29 to be question 29a.
Section 5, Information about Your Daily Activities, add a
question 29b, ``Describe and explain if your condition affects your
memory, concentration, or ability to understand and follow
instructions. (Include when this change began.)''
Section 7, Information About Your Work and Earnings,
question 74, update to 12-2024 in example.
Section 10, Certification, question 99, remove the word
``criminal'' from the sentence to read ``I know that if I am receiving
a disability annuity and fail to report work and earnings promptly, I
am committing a crime punishable by Federal law that may result in
prosecution and/or penalty deductions in my annuity payments'', and
Correct grammar, spacing, and heading issues within the
form for consistency.
The RRB proposes minor changes to the Form AA-17sum:
Update the outdated office hours with a link to the RRB
website and the toll-free number, and
Remove the date that the applicant would be notified of a
decision in the application process.
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Estimate of Annual Respondent Burden
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Annual Time
Form No. responses (minutes)1/ Burden (hours)
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AA-17 Application Process:
AA-17cert................................................... 900 20 300
AA-17sum.................................................... 2,100 19 665
AA-17b:
(With assistance)........................................... 175 50 146
(Without assistance)........................................ 20 60 18
AA-19a:
(With assistance)........................................... 200 50 167
(Without assistance)........................................ 15 70 18
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Total................................................... 3,410 .............. 1,314
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3. Title and purpose of information collection: Continuing
Disability Report; OMB 3220-0187.
Under Section 2 of the Railroad Retirement Act (45 U.S.C. 231a), an
annuity is not payable or is reduced for any month in which the
annuitant works for a railroad or earns more than prescribed dollar
amounts from either non-railroad employment or self-employment. Certain
types of work may indicate an annuitant's recovery from disability. The
provisions relating to the reduction or non-payment of an annuity by
reason of work, and an annuitant's recovery from disability for work,
are prescribed in 20 CFR 220.17-220.20. The RRB conducts continuing
disability reviews (CDR) to determine whether an annuitant continues to
meet the disability requirements of the law. Provisions relating to
when and how often the RRB conducts CDR's are prescribed in 20 CFR
220.186.
Form G-254, Continuing Disability Report, is used by the RRB to
develop information for a CDR determination, including a determination
prompted by a report of work, return to railroad service, allegation of
medical improvement, or a routine disability review call-up.
The RRB proposes the following changes to Form G-254:
Section 5, Information about Your Condition before Full
Retirement Age, remove the word ``even'' from question 31a in sentence
``NOT AT ALL--I cannot do the activity even with or without
assistance'',
Section 5, Information about Your Condition before Full
Retirement Age, add ``Sleeping'' to the activity list for question 31a,
Section 5, Information about Your Condition before Full
Retirement Age, add a question 31e, ``Describe and explain if your
condition affects your memory, concentration, or ability to understand
and follow instructions. (Include when this change began.)'', and
Correct grammar, spacing, and heading issues within the
form for consistency.
Form G-254a, Continuing Disability Update Report, is used to help
identify a disability annuitant whose work activity and/or recent
medical history warrants completion of Form G-254 for a more extensive
review. The RRB proposes no changes to Form G-254a.
Estimate of Annual Respondent Burden
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Annual Time
Form No. responses (minutes)1/ Burden (hours)
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G-254:
Annuitant................................................... 900 40 600
Employer verification....................................... 100 5 8
Doctor, hospital, or clinic verification.................... 100 5 8
Vocational, Rehabilitation Counselor verification........... 100 5 8
Other governmental agency verification...................... 100 5 8
School verification......................................... 100 5 8
G-254a.......................................................... 1,350 5 113
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Total................................................... 2,750 .............. 753
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Additional Information or Comments: To request more information or
to obtain a copy of the information collection justification, forms,
and/or supporting material, contact Kennisha Money at (312) 469-2591 or
[email protected]. Comments regarding the information collection
should be addressed to Brian Foster, Railroad Retirement Board, 844
North Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611-1275 or emailed to
[email protected]. Written comments should be received within 60
days of this notice.
Brian Foster,
Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-26068 Filed 11-7-24; 8:45 am]
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