Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 238 / Thursday, December 10, 2020 / Notices 79563 

published at 83 FR 42980–981 (August 

24, 2018). Members of the public 

desiring specific information concerning 

an ongoing matching activity may 

request a copy of the applicable 

computer matching agreement at the 

address provided above. 

PARTICIPATING AGENCIES: 

IRS. 

AUTHORITY FOR CONDUCTING THE MATCHING

PROGRAM: 

The Internal Revenue Service must 

safeguard information to ensure that it 

is kept confidential as required by the 

Internal Revenue Code, the Privacy Act 

of 1974, the Bank Secrecy Act, Title 18 

of the United States Code, the Federal 

Information Security Management Act 

(FISMA), and other applicable laws that 

require safeguarding of information. 

Sending confidential information 

without sufficient protection is a 

violation of IRS security policy. This 

matching program will assist the IRS in 

ensuring that sensitive information is 

properly protected from unauthorized 

use or disclosure. 

PURPOSE: 

The purpose of this program is to 

detect and deter breaches of security 

policy by IRS employees, contractors, or 

other individuals who have been 

granted access to IRS information or to 

IRS equipment and resources, who send 

electronic communications in an 

insecure, unencrypted manner. 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS: 

IRS employees, contractors, or other 

individuals who have been granted 

access to IRS information, equipment, 

and resources. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS: 

IRS will use any or all of the data 

elements in the listed systems of records 

to the extent necessary to accomplish a 

computer match. Data elements include, 

but not limited to, employee name, 

Social Security Number (SSN), 

employee number, address, email 

addresses; employee spouse’s name, 

SSN, address; taxpayer name, Taxpayer 

Identification Number (TIN), address, 

tax return/account information, 

taxpayer entity information, including 

prior and current name; electronic 

transmission specifics, internet Protocol 

(IP) Address, computer machine name, 

terminal identification; general 

personnel and payroll records, etc. The 

information generated and/or obtained 

during these computer matches will be 

used by IRS employees in the 

performance of their official 

responsibilities. Access to this 

information is limited to those 

individuals who have a need to know 

the information in the performance of 

their official duties. These individuals 

are subject to criminal and civil 

penalties for the unauthorized 

inspection and/or disclosure of this 

information. During the execution of 

this program of computer matches and 

the resultant analyses or investigations, 

the records used may be duplicated by 

IRS employees only for use in 

performing their official duties. The 

information collected or generated as 

part of this program of computer 

matches may only be disclosed in 

accordance with the provisions of 5 

U.S.C. 552a, 26 U.S.C. 6103, and any 

other applicable Federal privacy 

provisions. 

SYSTEM(S) OF RECORDS: 

The following systems of records 

maintained by the IRS and the 

Department of the Treasury Offices may 

be utilized: 

1. Correspondence Files and 

Correspondence Control Files 

[Treasury/IRS 00.001] 

2. Correspondence Files: Inquiries 

About Enforcement Activities 

[Treasury/IRS 00.002] 

3. Employee Complaint and 

Allegation Referral Records [Treasury/ 

IRS 00.007] 

4. Taxpayer Advocate Service and 

Customer Feedback and Survey Records 

[Treasury/IRS 00.003] 

5. Third Party Contact Records 

[Treasury/IRS 00.333] 

6. Stakeholder Relationship 

Management and Subject Files 

[Treasury/IRS 10.004] 

7. Volunteer Records [Treasury/IRS 

10.555] 

8. Annual Listing of Undelivered 

Refund Checks [Treasury/IRS 22.003] 

9. File of Erroneous Refunds 

[Treasury/IRS 22.011] 

10. Foreign Information System (FIS) 

[Treasury/IRS 22.027] 

11. Individual Microfilm Retention 

Register [Treasury/IRS 22.032] 

12. Subsidiary Accounting Files 

[Treasury/IRS 22.054] 

13. Automated Non-Master File 

(ANMF) [Treasury/IRS 22.060] 

14. Information Return Master File 

(IRMF) [Treasury/IRS 22.061] 

15. Electronic Filing Records 

[Treasury/IRS 22.062] 

16. CADE Individual Master File 

(IMF) [Treasury/IRS 24.030] 

17. CADE Business Master File (BMF) 

[Treasury/IRS 24.046] 

18. Audit Underreporter Case File 

[Treasury/IRS 24.047] 

19. Acquired Property Records 

[Treasury/IRS 26.001] 

20. Lien Files [Treasury/IRS 26.009] 

21. Offer in Compromise Files 

[Treasury/IRS 26.012] 

22. Trust Fund Recovery Cases/One 

Hundred Percent Penalty Cases 

[Treasury/IRS 26.013] 

23. Record of Seizure and Sale of Real 

Property [Treasury/IRS 26.014] 

24. Taxpayer Delinquent Account 

(TDA) Files [Treasury/IRS 26.019] 

25. Taxpayer Delinquency 

Investigation (TDI) Files [Treasury/IRS 

26.020] 

26. Identification Media Files System 

for Employees and Others Issued IRS 

Identification [Treasury/IRS 34.013] 

27. Security Clearance Files 

[Treasury/IRS 34.016] 

28. Automated Background 

Investigations System [Treasury/IRS 

34.022] 

29. Audit Trail and Security Records 

[Treasury/IRS 34.037] 

30. Treasury Payroll and Personnel 

System [Treasury/DO.001] 

31. Treasury Child Care Tuition 

Assistance Records [Treasury/DO.003] 

32. Public Transportation Incentive 

Program Records [Treasury/DO.005] 

33. Treasury Financial Management 

Systems [Treasury/DO.009] 

Ryan Law, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Privacy, 

Transparency, and Records. 

[FR Doc. 2020–27136 Filed 12–9–20; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Survey of U.S. Ownership of Foreign 

Securities as of December 31, 2020 

AGENCY: Departmental Offices, Office of 

the Assistant Secretary for International 

Affairs, Department of the Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice of reporting 

requirements. 

SUMMARY: By this Notice, the 

Department of the Treasury is informing 

the public that it is conducting a 

mandatory survey of ownership of 

foreign securities by U.S. residents as of 

December 31, 2020. This Notice 

constitutes legal notification to all 

United States persons (defined below) 

who meet the reporting requirements set 

forth in this Notice that they must 

respond to, and comply with, this 

survey. The reporting form SHCA (2020) 

and instructions may be printed from 

the internet at: https://

www.treasury.gov/resource-center/datachart-center/tic/Pages/forms-shc.aspx. 

Please note that when the TIC website 

is revised, the URL will be: https://

home.treasury.gov/data/treasuryinternational-capital-tic-system-homepage/tic-forms-instructions/forms-shc. 


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79564 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 238 / Thursday, December 10, 2020 / Notices 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Definition: 

Pursuant to 22 U.S.C. 3102(3) and (4): A 

person means any individual, branch, 

partnership, associated group, 

association, estate, trust, corporation, or 

other organization (whether or not 

organized under the laws of any State), 

and any government (including a 

foreign government, the United States 

Government, a State or local 

government, and any agency, 

corporation, financial institution, or 

other entity or instrumentality thereof, 

including a government-sponsored 

agency); and a United States person 

means any person resident in the United 

States or subject to the jurisdiction of 

the United States. 

Who Must Report: The reporting panel 

is based upon the data submitted for the 

2016 Benchmark survey and the June 

2020 TIC report ‘‘Aggregate Holdings of 

Long-Term Securities by U.S. and 

Foreign Residents’’ (TIC SLT). Entities 

required to report will be contacted 

individually by the Federal Reserve 

Bank of New York. Entities not 

contacted by the Federal Reserve Bank 

of New York have no reporting 

responsibilities. 

What To Report: This report will 

collect information on holdings by U.S. 

residents of foreign securities, including 

equities, long-term debt securities, and 

short-term debt securities (including 

selected money market instruments). 

How To Report: Copies of the survey 

forms and instructions, which contain 

complete information on reporting 

procedures and definitions, may be 

obtained at the website address given 

above in the Summary. Completed 

reports can be submitted electronically 

via email at SHC.help@ny.frb.org. 

Inquiries can be made to the survey staff 

of the Federal Reserve Bank of New 

York at (212) 720–6300 or email: 

SHC.help@ny.frb.org. Inquiries can also 

be made to Dwight Wolkow at (202) 

622–1276, email: comments2TIC@

do.treas.gov. 

When To Report: Data must be 

submitted to the Federal Reserve Bank 

of New York, acting as fiscal agent for 

the Department of the Treasury, by 

March 5, 2021. 

Paperwork Reduction Act Notice: This 

data collection has been approved by 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act and assigned 

control number 1505–0146. An agency 

may not conduct or sponsor, and a 

person is not required to respond to, a 

collection of information unless it 

displays a valid control number 

assigned by OMB. The estimated 

average annual burden associated with 

this collection of information is 49 

hours per respondent for end-investors 

and custodians that file Schedule 3 

reports covering their foreign securities 

entrusted to U.S. resident custodians, 

146 hours per respondent for large endinvestors filing Schedule 2 reports, and 

546 hours per respondent for large 

custodians of securities filing Schedule 

2 reports. Comments concerning the 

accuracy of this burden estimate and 

suggestions for reducing this burden 

should be directed to the Department of 

the Treasury, Attention: Administrator, 

International Portfolio Investment Data 

Reporting Systems, Room 1050, 

Washington, DC 20220, and to OMB, 

Attention: Desk Officer for the 

Department of the Treasury, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Washington, DC 20503. In light of the 

current pandemic, please also email 

comments to Dwight Wolkow at: 

comments2TIC@do.treas.gov. 

Heidi Cohen, 

Federal Register Liaison. 

[FR Doc. 2020–27098 Filed 12–9–20; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Cost of Living Adjustments for 

Service-Connected Benefits 

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: As required by the Veterans’ 

Compensation Cost-of-Living 

Adjustment Act of 2020, the Department 

of Veterans Affairs (VA) is hereby giving 

notice of adjustments in certain benefit 

rates. These adjustments affect the 

compensation program. 

DATES: These adjustments became 

effective on December 1, 2020, the date 

provided by Public Law 116–178. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jessica Pierce, Policy and Procedures 

Staff, Compensation Service, Veterans 

Benefits Administration, Department of 

Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20420, 202–461– 

9700. (This is not a toll-free telephone 

number.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 2 

of Public Law 116–178 provides for an 

increase in each of the rates in sections 

1114, 1115(1), and 1162 of title 38, 

United States Code. VA is required to 

increase these benefit rates by the same 

percentage as increases in the benefit 

amounts payable under title II of the 

Social Security Act. The increased rates 

are required to be published in the 

Federal Register. 

The Social Security Administration 

has announced that there will be a 1.3 

percent cost-of-living increase in Social 

Security benefits for 2021. Therefore, 

applying the same percentage, the 

following rates for VA’s compensation 

program became effective on December 

1, 2020: 

Disability evaluation percent Monthly rate 

Disability Compensation 

[38 U.S.C. 1114] 

10 ........................................... $144.14. 

20 ........................................... 284.93. 

30 ........................................... 441.35. 

40 ........................................... 635.77. 

50 ........................................... 905.04. 

60 ........................................... 1,146.39. 

70 ........................................... 1,444.71. 

80 ........................................... 1,679.35. 

90 ........................................... 1,887.18. 

100 ......................................... 3,146.42. 

(38 U.S.C. 1114(k) through 

(t)): 

38 U.S.C. 1114(k) .............. 111.74. 

38 U.S.C. 1114(l) ............... 3,915.14. 

38 U.S.C. 1114(m) ............. 4,320.76. 

38 U.S.C. 1114(n) .............. 4,915.17. 

38 U.S.C. 1114(o) .............. 5,493.95. 

38 U.S.C. 1114(p) .............. 5,493.95. 

38 U.S.C. 1114(r) .............. 2,356.48; 3,510.69. 

38 U.S.C. 1114(s) .............. 3,521.85. 

38 U.S.C. 1114(t) ............... 3,510.69. 

Additional Compensation for Dependents 

[38 U.S.C. 1115(1)] 

38 U.S.C. 1115(1): 

38 U.S.C. 1115(1)(A) ......... 175.43. 

38 U.S.C. 1115(1)(B) ......... 303.90; 87.17. 

38 U.S.C. 1115(1)(C) ......... 117.32; 87.17. 

38 U.S.C. 1115(1)(D) ......... 140.79. 

38 U.S.C. 1115(1)(E) ......... 336.32. 

38 U.S.C. 1115(1)(F) ......... 281.57. 

Clothing Allowance 

[38 U.S.C. 1162] 

$841.36 per year. 

Signing Authority 

The Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or 

designee, approved this document and 

authorized the undersigned to sign and 

submit the document to the Office of the 

Federal Register for publication 

electronically as an official document of 

the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

Brooks D. Tucker, Assistant Secretary 

for Congressional and Legislative 

Affairs, Performing the Delegable Duties 

of the Chief of Staff, Department of 

Veterans Affairs, approved this 

document on December 3, 2020, for 

publication. 

Luvenia Potts, 

Regulation Development Coordinator, Office 

of Regulation Policy & Management, Office 

of the Secretary, Department of Veterans 

Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2020–27092 Filed 12–9–20; 8:45 am] 

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