[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 95 (Tuesday, May 16, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 31205]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-12323]


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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION


Agency Information Collection Activities: Emergency Consideration 
Request

    In compliance with Public Law 104-13, the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995, the Social Security Administration (SSA) is providing notice 
of its information collections that require submission to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB). SSA is requesting emergency consideration 
from OMB by 06/02/2000 of the information collection listed below.
    1. Annual Earning Test-Direct Mail Follow-up Program Notices-0960-
0369. In 1997, as part of the initiative to reinvent government, SSA 
began to use the information reported on W-2's and self-employment tax 
returns to adjust benefits under the earnings test rather than have 
beneficiaries make a separate report, which often showed the same 
information. As a result, beneficiaries under full retirement age (FRA) 
complete forms SSA-L9778-SM-SUP, SSA-L9779-SM-SUP and SSA-L9781-SM (the 
``Midyear Mailer'' forms) under this information collection.
    With the passage of the Senior Citizen Freedom to Work Act of 2000, 
the annual earnings test (AET) at FRA was eliminated. As a result, SSA 
designed 2 new Midyear Mailer forms, the SSA-L9784-SM and the SSA-
L9785-SM, to request an earnings estimate in the year of FRA for the 
period prior to the month of FRA. Social Security benefits may be 
adjusted based on the information provided and this information is 
needed to comply with the recent change to the law. Consequently, the 
Midyear Mailer program has become an even more important tool in 
helping SSA to ensure that Social Security payments are correct. 
Respondents are beneficiaries who must update their current year 
estimate of earnings, give SSA an estimate of earnings for the 
following year and an earnings estimate (in the year of FRA) for the 
period prior to the month of FRA.
    Number of Respondents: 315,000.
    Frequency of Response: 1.
    Average Burden Per Response: 10 minutes.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 52,500 hours.
    You can obtain a copy of the collection instruments and/or OMB 
clearance package by calling the SSA Reports Clearance Officer on (410) 
965-4145, or by writing to him. Written comments and recommendations 
regarding the information collection should be submitted to the SSA 
Reports Clearance Officer and to the OMB Desk Officer at the addresses 
at the end of this document. Comments and recommendations should be 
received before June 2, 2000.

(OMB Address)

    Desk Officer for SSA, New Executive Office Building, Room 10230, 
725 17th St., NW, Washington, DC 20503.

(SSA Address)

    Social Security Administration, DCFAM, Attn: Frederick W. 
Brickenkamp, 1-A-21 Operations Bldg., 6401 Security Blvd., Baltimore, 
MD 21235.

    Dated: May 9, 2000.
Frederick W. Brickenkamp,
Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 00-12323 Filed 5-15-00; 8:45 am]
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