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66 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(6). 

67 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2). 

68 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). 

Section 19(b)(6) of the Act,66 the 

Commission has considered the 

sufficiency and appropriateness of 

existing laws and rules applicable to 

government securities brokers, 

government securities dealers, and their 

associated persons in approving the 

proposal. The proposal will benefit 

investors and market participants by 

promoting greater transparency into the 

U.S. Treasury Securities market while 

also maintaining the confidentiality of 

individual market participants and 

transactions. 

IV. Conclusion 

It is therefore ordered, pursuant to 

Section 19(b)(2) of the Act,67 that the 

proposed rule change (SR–FINRA– 

2023–015) be, and hereby is, approved. 

For the Commission, by the Division of 

Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated 

authority.68

Sherry R. Haywood, 

Assistant Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 

[Docket No: SSA–2023–0051] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Request and 

Comment Request 

The Social Security Administration 

(SSA) publishes a list of information 

collection packages requiring clearance 

by the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) in compliance with 

Public Law 104–13, the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, effective October 

1, 1995. This notice includes revisions 

of OMB-approved information 

collections, and two new collections for 

OMB-approval. 

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 ways to 

minimize burden on respondents, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. Mail, email, or 

fax your comments and 

recommendations on the information 

collection(s) to the OMB Desk Officer 

and SSA Reports Clearance Officer at 

the following addresses or fax numbers. 

(OMB), Office of Management and 

Budget, Attn: Desk Officer for SSA, 

Fax: 202–395–6974 

(SSA), Social Security Administration, 

OLCA, Attn: Reports Clearance 

Director, Mail Stop 3253 Altmeyer, 

6401 Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 

21235, Fax: 833–410–1631, Email 

address: OR.Reports.Clearance@

ssa.gov 

Or you may submit your comments 

online through https://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAmain by clicking on 

Currently under Review—Open for 

Public Comments and choosing to click 

on one of SSA’s published items. Please 

reference Docket ID Number [SSA– 

2023–0051] in your submitted response. 

I. The information collection below is 

pending at SSA. SSA will submit it to 

OMB within 60 days from the date of 

this notice. To be sure we consider your 

comments, we must receive them no 

later than April 12, 2024. Individuals 

can obtain copies of the collection 

instruments by writing to the above 

email address. 

1. Representative Availability Portal 

for Social Security Administration 

Hearings—20 CFR 404.929, 404.933, 

404.1740, 416.1429, 416.1433, 416.1540, 

418.1350, 422.203—0960–NEW. As part 

of the appeals process, claimants can 

request a hearing with an 

Administrative Law Judge (ALJ). 

Approximately 80 percent of claimants 

have appointed representatives at the 

hearing level. When the Social Security 

Administration (SSA) schedules 

hearings before an ALJ, it usually 

considers the availability of appointed 

representatives, if applicable. 

Appointed representatives may be 

members of large firms, appearing at 

hearings nationwide, or may be solo 

practitioners servicing a specific 

geographic location or hearing office. In 

both situations, it is typical for 

appointed representatives to represent 

more than one claimant at any given 

moment; some represent hundreds of 

claimants at once. 

Historically, the process of seeking, 

tracking, and considering representative 

availability has been a manual and timeintensive activity. In the past, hearing 

offices sought representative availability 

information by contacting each 

representative individually. More 

recently, Office of Hearings Operations’ 

Regional Offices representatives 

collected availability information. 

Representatives provided Regional 

Office staff with their hearing 

availability via telephone or email. 

However, the process for gathering and 

considering representative availability 

was not standardized and varied greatly 

amongst Regional Offices. The 

appointed representative community 

informed SSA they would appreciate a 

consistent and standardized electronic 

process to submit their availability for 

hearing appearances. 

In the Spring of 2023, SSA initiated 

the Enhanced Representative 

Availability Process (ERAP) to provide 

representatives with a more 

standardized and streamlined process to 

email their availability for hearings. In 

the interim, SSA obtained OMB 

approval to test a new Representative 

Availability Portal (Portal) to offer the 

representative community a web-based 

option to submit their monthly 

availability to SSA, as per 20 CFR 

404.1740(b)(3)(iii) and 

416.1540(b)(3)(iii) and in a manner 

consistent with ERAP. SSA tested the 

portal among 11 appointed 

representative practice groups 

nationwide. We are currently seeking 

OMB approval for the national rollout of 

the Portal, which collects standardized 

information regarding appointed 

representative availability for the 

purpose of scheduling hearings. 

SSA plans to roll the Portal out to all 

appointed representatives registered 

with the Registration, Appointment and 

Services for Representatives (RASR) 

application, other professional 

representatives who regularly conduct 

hearing business with SSA but are not 

registered with RASR, and delegated 

officials from appointed representative’s 

Designated Scheduling Groups (DSG). A 

DSG is a representative-identified 

scheduling group which can include 

one representative, or multiple 

representatives. Respondents will need 

to have a mySocial Security account to 

use the Portal and be registered into the 

Portal by SSA systems. Respondents 

who wish to use the Portal, but who are 

not registered with RASR, or who do not 

have a Representative ID, must provide 

SSA systems with the necessary data, 

including name and SSN, to complete 

the Portal registration process. 

Portal respondents, once registered, 

are authorized representatives and 

delegated officials from appointed 

representatives’ DSG. SSA will use the 

Portal to track availability for hearings 

for the DSG. Representatives provide 

hearing availability for the DSG monthly 

(as described above), and SSA considers 

the DSG-provided availability when 

scheduling hearings. SSA will announce 

the response window for the Portal each 

month via a reminder email, 

approximately ten days prior to the 

deadline for Portal submissions. 

Following the submission deadline, the 

Portal will ‘‘lock,’’ and respondents will 

not be able to submit availability 

through the Portal at that time. 

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or modification and plans to have the 

capacity to unlock the Portal, when 

warranted. Portal response options will 

include DSG group, hearing region, 

availability during the period of 

submission, and respondent-preferred 

case maximums. The Portal will allow 

SSA to obtain the information we 

require to schedule hearings for 

attendees. 

If the respondents choose not to 

submit their availability via the Portal, 

the option of submitting their 

availability through email submission 

(as is the current practice) will remain. 

If a representative elects not to timely 

submit any availability via the Portal or 

email, SSA will schedule their hearings 

without their input. 

We expect use of the Portal will result 

in receiving consistent structured data 

from appointed representatives, which 

will allow for a more streamlined and 

effective hearing scheduling process. 

The Portal also meets a longstanding 

customer-experience request by the 

representative community, one of SSA’s 

key stakeholders in the process. 

The respondents are appointed 

representatives, and delegated officials 

from appointed representatives’ DSGs 

who need to submit their availability to 

SSA for hearings. 

Type of Request: Request for a new 

information collection. 

This is a Correction Notice: SSA 

published the incorrect information for 

this new collection at 88 FR 71067, on 

10/13/23. We are correcting this error 

here. 

Modality of completion Number of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

response 

Number of 

responses 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(minutes) 

Estimated total 

annual burden 

(hours) 

Average 

theoretical 

hourly cost 

amount 

(dollars) ** 

Total annual 

opportunity cost 

(dollars) *** 

Representative Availability Portal for 

SSA Hearings ...................................... * 3,000 12 36,000 20 12,000 ** $71.17 *** $854,040 

* This figure represents the approximate number of individual representatives registered with RASR who regularly schedule hearings with the agency. 

** We based this figure on the mean hourly wage for the average lawyer in the United States as reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics data (https://www.bls.gov/ 

oes/current/oes_stru.htm). 

*** This figure does not represent actual costs that SSA is imposing on recipients of Social Security payments to complete this application; rather, these are theoretical opportunity costs for the additional time respondents will spend to complete the application. There is no actual charge to respondents to complete the 

application. 

2. Statement of Death by Funeral 

Director and State Death Match 

Collections—20 CFR 404.301, 404.310– 

404.311, 404.316, 404.330–404.341, 

404.350–404.352, 404.371, 404.715, 

404.720, and 416.912—0960–0142. The 

death of a beneficiary is an event that 

terminates the individual’s entitlement 

to Social Security benefits. As regulated, 

states must furnish death information to 

SSA to compare to SSA’s payment files. 

SSA employs two modalities for 

ensuring it efficiently receives accurate 

information regarding the deaths of 

SSA-insured workers and beneficiaries: 

(1) Form SSA–721, Statement of Death 

by Funeral Director; and (2) the 

Electronic Death Registration (EDR). 

SSA operates the State Death Match 

collections, which includes the EDR 

process for electronically reporting 

death records to SSA. The states furnish 

death certificate information to SSA via 

a manual registration process (the SSA– 

721), or via the Electronic Death 

Registration Process (EDR). Both death 

match processes are automated 

electronic transfers between the states 

and SSA. This collection, via paper 

form SSA–721 or the EDR, allows for 

the funeral director or funeral home 

responsible for the individual’s burial or 

cremation to report the death to SSA. 

SSA uses this information for three 

purposes: (1) to establish proof of death 

for the insured worker; (2) to determine 

if the insured individual was receiving 

any pre-death benefits SSA needs to 

terminate; and (3) to ascertain which 

surviving family member is eligible for 

the lump-sum death payment or for 

other death benefits. The respondents 

for this information collection are 

funeral directors who handled death 

arrangements for the insured 

individuals, and the states’ bureaus of 

vital statistics. 

Type of Request: Revision of an OMBapproved information collection. 

EDR 

Modality of completion Number of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

response 

Average cost 

per record 

request 

Estimated total 

annual burden 

hours 

(cost) 

Average 

theoretical 

hourly cost 

amount 

(dollars) ** 

Total annual 

opportunity cost 

(dollars) *** 

State Death Match—EDR * ............................................... 54 3,164,477 $2.77 $473,342,469 ** $21.33 *** $67,498,294 

States Expected to Become—State Death Match—EDR 

Within the Next 3 Years * .............................................. 1 1,247 3.73 4,651 ** 21.33 *** 26,598 

Totals: ........................................................................ 55 ........................ ........................ 473,347,120 ........................ *** 67,524,892 

* Please note that both of these data matching processes are electronic, and nearly immediate. Therefore, there is only a cost burden, and no hourly burden for the 

respondent to provide this information. 

We estimated the frequency of responses by taking the total number of actual records received for calendar year 2022 for each category and dividing by the number of respondents, per category. 

We have 54 States and Jurisdictions currently using EDR. Guam recently showed interest in becoming an EDR site. Estimated sometime mid to late next year 

2024. 

** We based this figure on the average Records Clerk hourly wages as reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics data (https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm). 

*** This figure does not represent actual costs that SSA is imposing on recipients of Social Security payments to complete this application; rather, these are theoretical opportunity costs for the additional time respondents will spend to complete the application. There is no actual charge to respondents to complete the 

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SSA–721 

Modality of completion Number of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

response 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(minutes) 

Estimated total 

annual burden 

(hours) 

Average 

theoretical 

hourly cost 

amount 

(dollars) ** 

Total annual 

opportunity 

cost 

(dollars) *** 

SSA–721 ................................................................................... 437,449 1 4 29,163 * $27.98 ** $815,981

* We based this figure on average funeral home manager’s hourly salary in May 2022, as reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics data (Morticians, Undertakers, and 

Funeral Arrangers). 

** This figure does not represent actual costs that SSA is imposing on recipients of Social Security payments to complete this application; rather, these are theoretical opportunity costs for the additional time respondents will spend to complete the application. There is no actual charge to respondents to complete the 

application. 

3. Retaining Employment and Talent 

After Injury/Illness Network (RETAIN)— 

0960–0821. The SSA and the U.S. 

Department of Labor (DOL) are 

conducting the Retaining Employment 

and Talent After Injury/Illness Network 

(RETAIN) demonstration. The RETAIN 

demonstration tests the impact of early 

intervention strategies that improve 

stay-at-work/return-to-work (SAW/ 

RTW) outcomes of individuals who 

experience work disability while 

employed. We define ‘‘Work disability’’ 

as an injury, illness, or medical 

condition that has the potential to 

inhibit or prevent continued 

employment or labor force participation. 

SAW/RTW programs succeed by 

returning injured or ill workers to 

productive work as soon as medically 

possible during their recovery process, 

and by providing interim part-time or 

light duty work and accommodations, as 

necessary. We loosely modeled the 

RETAIN Demonstration Projects after 

promising programs operating in 

Washington State, including the Centers 

of Occupational Health and Education 

(COHE), the Early Return to Work 

(ERTW), and the Stay at Work programs. 

While these programs operate within 

the state’s workers’ compensation 

system, and are available only to people 

experiencing work-related injuries or 

illnesses, the RETAIN Demonstration 

Projects provide opportunities to 

improve SAW/RTW outcomes for both 

occupational and non-occupational 

injuries and illnesses of people who are 

employed, or at a minimum in the labor 

force, when their injury or illness 

occurs. 

The primary goals of the RETAIN 

Demonstration Projects are: 

1. To increase employment retention 

and labor force participation of 

individuals who acquire, and/or are at 

risk of developing, work disabilities; 

and 

2. To reduce long-term work disability 

among RETAIN service users, including 

the need for Social Security Disability 

Insurance and Supplemental Security 

Income. 

The Retain Demonstration aims to 

validate and expand evidence-based 

strategies to accomplish these goals. 

DOL funds intervention approaches and 

programmatic technical assistance, 

while SSA funds evaluation support, 

including technical assistance and the 

full evaluation for the demonstration. 

The demonstration consists of two 

Phases. The first involves the 

implementation and assessment of 

cooperative awards to eight states to 

conduct planning and start-up activities, 

including the launch of a small pilot 

demonstration. During Phase 1, SSA 

provided evaluation-related technical 

assistance and planning, and conducts 

evaluability assessments to assess which 

states’ projects would allow for a 

rigorous evaluation if continued beyond 

the pilot phase. SSA completed Phase 1 

on May 16, 2021. DOL selected a subset 

of states and continued to Phase 2 full 

implementation and evaluation on May 

17, 2021, which will end in October 

2025. During Phase 2, DOL funds the 

operations and program technical 

assistance activities for the 

recommended states, and SSA funds the 

full set of evaluation activities. The four 

components of this evaluation, 

completed during site visits, interviews 

with RETAIN service users, surveys of 

RETAIN enrollees, and surveys of 

RETAIN service providers, include: 

• The participation analysis: Using 

RETAIN service user interviews and 

surveys, this analysis provides insights 

into which eligible workers choose to 

participate in the program, in what ways 

they participate, and how services 

received vary with participant 

characteristics. Similarly, it will assess 

the characteristics of, and if possible, 

reasons for non-enrollment of nonparticipants. 

• The process analysis: Using staff 

interviews and logs, this analysis 

produces information about operational 

features that affect service provision; 

perceptions of the intervention design 

by service users, providers, 

administrators, and other stakeholders; 

relationships among the partner 

organizations; each program’s fidelity to 

the research design; and lessons for 

future programs with similar objectives. 

• The impact analysis: This analysis 

produces estimates of the effects of the 

interventions on primary outcomes, 

including employment and Social 

Security disability applications, and 

secondary outcomes, such as health and 

service usage. SSA identifies evaluation 

designs for each state to generate impact 

estimates, which could include 

experimental or non-experimental 

designs. 

• The cost-benefit analysis: This 

analysis assesses whether the benefits of 

RETAIN justify its costs, conducted 

from various perspectives, including 

participants, state and Federal 

governments, SSA, and society as a 

whole. The purpose and proposed use 

of this information collection is to 

gather qualitative and quantitative data 

needed to conduct the analysis. These 

activities, include (1) surveys of 

RETAIN enrollees and (2) follow-up 

interviews with RETAIN service users. 

The qualitative data collection consists 

of: (1) semi-structured interviews with 

program staff and service users; and (2) 

staff activity logs. Program staff 

interviews focus on staff’s perceptions 

of the successes and challenges of 

implementing each states program, 

while staff activity logs house 

information on staff’s time to inform the 

benefit-cost analysis. Service user 

interviews inform SSA’s understanding 

of users’ experiences with program 

services. The quantitative data include 

SSA’s program records and survey data. 

The survey data collection consists of: 

(1) two rounds of follow-up surveys, 

focusing on individual-level outcomes, 

with enrollees, all of whom who have 

experienced a disability onset; and (2) 

two rounds of surveys with RETAIN 

providers. Respondents learn of the 

RETAIN program data collection efforts 

through various outreach methods, 

including, but not limited to mailings, 

phone calls, and from other individuals. 

SSA is constantly reviewing our 

outreach strategies to ensure maximum 

exposure and accessibility to the 

materials. the respondents are staff 

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and staff activity logs, and RETAIN 

service users, enrollees, and providers. 

Type of Request: Request for renewal 

of an information collection. 

RETAIN 2024 BURDEN FIGURES

Modality of completion Number of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

response 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(minutes) 

Estimated total 

annual burden 

(hours) 

Average 

theoretical 

hourly cost 

amount 

(dollars) * 

Average wait 

time for 

teleservice 

centers 

(minutes) ** 

Total annual 

opportunity 

cost 

(dollars) **** 

Enrollee Survey Round 1 (Respondents) ..... 1,872 1 20 624 * $29.76 ** 19 *** $20,177 

Enrollee Survey Round 1 (Nonrespondents) 468 1 3 23 * 29.76 ** 0 *** 684 

Enrollee Survey Round 2 (Respondents) ..... 4,493 1 26 1,947 * 29.76 ** 19 *** 100,291 

Enrollee Survey Round 2 (Nonrespondents) 1,123 1 3 56 * 29.76 ** 0 *** 1,667 

Follow-up interviews with service users (Respondents) ................................................. 20 1 141 47 * 29.76 ** 19 *** 1,577 

Follow-up interviews with service users 

(Nonrespondents) ...................................... 30 1 6 3 * 29.76 ** 0 *** 89 

Totals ..................................................... 8,006 ........................ ........................ 2,700 ........................ ........................ *** 124,485 

RETAIN 2025 BURDEN FIGURES

Modality of completion Number of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

response 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(minutes) 

Estimated total 

annual burden 

(hours) 

Average 

theoretical 

hourly cost 

amount 

(dollars) * 

Average wait 

time for 

teleservice 

centers 

(minutes) ** 

Total annual 

opportunity 

cost 

(dollars) *** 

Enrollee Survey Round 2 (Respondents) ..... 1,123 1 26 487 * $29.76 ** 19 *** $25,088 

Enrollee Survey Round 2 (Nonrespondents) 281 1 3 14 * 29.76 ** 0 *** 417 

Totals ..................................................... 1,404 ........................ ........................ 501 ........................ ........................ *** 25,505 

Grand Total ..................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................ ........................

Totals .............................................. 9,410 ........................ ........................ 3,201 ........................ ........................ *** 149,990 

* We based these figures on average U.S. citizen’s hourly salary, as reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics data (https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm). 

** We based this figure on average FY 2023 wait times for teleservice centers (approximately 19 minutes per respondent), based on SSA’s current management information data. 

** This figure does not represent actual costs that SSA is imposing on recipients of Social Security payments to complete these tasks; rather, these are theoretical 

opportunity costs for the additional time respondents will spend to complete the tasks. There is no actual charge to respondents to complete the tasks. 

II. SSA submitted the information 

collections below to OMB for clearance. 

Your comments regarding these 

information collections would be most 

useful if OMB and SSA receive them 30 

days from the date of this publication. 

To be sure we consider your comments, 

we must receive them no later than 

March 13, 2024. Individuals can obtain 

copies of these OMB clearance packages 

by writing to the 

OR.Reports.Clearance@ssa.gov. 

1. Beyond Benefits Study (BBS)— 

0960–NEW. The BBS will provide SSA 

with information regarding the needs of 

individuals who, due to medical 

improvement or a change in eligibility, 

have ‘‘exited’’ (called Exiters), or are 

likely to ‘‘exit’’ (called Possible Exiters) 

the Social Security Disability Insurance 

(SSDI) program, the Supplemental 

Security Income (SSI) program, or both. 

The BBS will provide SSA with a 

clearer understanding of the challenges 

and needs of the target population as 

Exiters leave the safety net and security 

of disability benefits and attempt to 

return to work. SSA will use the 

findings from the BBS to identify 

potential interventions and policies to 

help Exiters and Possible Exiters 

achieve sustainable, substantial work 

leading to self-sufficiency. 

In seeking to understand the needs 

(e.g., service, medical, and employment) 

of Exiters and Possible Exiters, the study 

aims to answer three primary research 

questions: (1) what are the service, 

medical, and employment needs 

required to achieve sustainable, 

substantive employment among 

individuals who exit SSDI/SSI 

programs; (2) what are the types of 

services, resources, and interventions 

that will help exiting individuals obtain 

and retain employment, and should 

SSA consider a larger test study; and (3) 

what policy recommendations will 

facilitate substantive and sustainable 

employment among individuals who 

exit SSDI/SSI programs? 

The BBS will help SSA answer these 

questions by collecting data through 

surveys, interviews, and focus groups. 

Quantitative data collection via the 

survey will include 4,000 participants 

stratified by exit status and other 

criteria. The sample will include 2,000 

Possible Exiters, 1,000 Short-term 

Exiters (have exited within the last 

year), and 1,000 Long-term Exiters (have 

exited within the last 1–5 years) with 

75% of respondents in each group 

having a high-scoring likelihood of 

medical improvement based on the 

Continuing Disability Review (CDR) 

profiling model. The sample will be 

further stratified by program type (SSDI 

versus SSI) and by recommended 

determinants of self-sufficiency (e.g., 

age, type of impairment, and urban or 

rural locality). 

The Motivational Interviewing Pilot 

Test will recruit 50 Exiters to participate 

in six sessions. During these sessions, 

motivational interviewers assess each 

participant’s readiness to return to work 

using a standardized screener and 

explore the interest and motivation 

relating to obtaining and retaining 

employment as well as career 

advancement. Participants who drop out 

after the first session will be replaced. 

Data collection via the interviews and 

focus groups will include (1) qualitative 

in-depth interviews with Exiters and 

Possible Exiters (70 individuals); (2) ten 

focus groups with Exiters and Possible 

Exiters (140 individuals, total); (3) two 

focus groups with service providers (20 

individuals, total); (4) in-depth 

interviews with state and agency 

leadership (30 individuals); and, (5) a 

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interview (MI) practitioners (five 

individuals). 

The respondents are individuals who 

have volunteered to take part in the 

study and are exiting (Exiters) or may be 

exiting (Possible Exiters) SSA’s 

disability program(s) due to medical 

improvement or changes in eligibility; 

vocational service providers; state and 

agency leadership; and motivational 

interviewers. 

Type of Request: Request for a new 

information collection. 

Study component Number of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

responses 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(minutes) 

Total burden 

hours 

Average 

theoretical 

hourly cost 

amount 

(dollars) * 

Total annual 

opportunity 

cost 

(dollars) ** 

Interviews with Exiters and Possible Exiters (icl. informed 

consent and pre-collection questions) ................................... 70 1 65 76 * $12.81 ** $974 

Focus groups with Exiters and Possible Exiters (icl. informed 

consent and pre-collection questions) ................................... 140 1 65 152 * 12.81 ** 1,947 

Focus group with service providers (icl. informed consent and 

pre-collection questions) ........................................................ 20 1 65 22 * 24 ** 528 

Focus group with motivational interviewer practitioners (icl. informed consent) ..................................................................... 5 1 65 5 * 35 ** 175 

In-depth interviews with state and agency leadership (icl. informed consent and pre-collection questions) ...................... 30 1 65 33 * 56 ** 1,848 

Survey (icl. informed consent and pre-collection questions) .... 4,000 1 50 3,333 * 12.81 ** 42,696 

MI Pilot (icl. informed consent and pre-collection questions) ... 50 6 60 300 * 12.81 ** 3,843 

Total ................................................................................... 4,315 4,565 ........................ 3,921 ........................ ** 52,011 

* We base this figure on average DI payments wages for disability recipients as reported by SSA data (https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/2023factsheet.pdf). 

** This figure does not represent actual costs that SSA is imposing on recipients of Social Security payments to complete this application; rather, these are theoretical opportunity costs for the additional time respondents will spend to complete the application. There is no actual charge to respondents to complete the 

application. 

2. Help America Vote Act—0960– 

0706. House Rule 3295, the Help 

America Vote Act of 2002, mandates 

that States verify the identities of newly 

registered voters. When newly 

registered voters do not have driver’s 

licenses or State-issued ID cards, they 

must supply the last four digits of their 

Social Security number to their local 

State election agencies for verification. 

The election agencies forward this 

information to their State Motor Vehicle 

Administration (MVA) and the State 

MVA inputs the data into the American 

Association of MVAs, a central 

consolidation system that routes the 

voter data to SSA’s Help America Vote 

Verification (HAVV) system. Once 

SSA’s HAVV system confirms the 

identity of the voter, the information 

returns along the same route in reverse 

until it reaches the State election 

agency. The respondents are the State 

MVAs seeking to confirm voter 

identities. 

Type of Request: Revision of an OMBapproved information collection. 

Modality of completion Number of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

response 

Number of 

responses 

Average 

burden per 

response 

(minutes) 

Estimated total 

annual burden 

(hours) 

Average 

theoretical 

hourly cost 

amount 

(dollars) * 

Total annual 

opportunity 

cost 

(dollars) ** 

HAVV ............................................................. 48 102,200 4,905,600 2 163,520 * $22.07 ** $3,608,886 

* We based this figure on average local government information and records clerk’s salary shown on the Bureau of Labor Statistic’s website (https://www.bls.gov/ 

oes/current/oes434199.htm). 

** This figure does not represent actual costs that SSA is imposing on recipients of Social Security payments to complete this application; rather, these are theoretical opportunity costs for the additional time respondents will spend to complete the application. There is no actual charge to respondents to complete the 

application. 

Naomi Sipple, 

Reports Clearance Officer, Social Security 

Administration. 

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BILLING CODE 4191–02–P 

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 

[Docket No. SSA–2023–0027] 

Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program 

AGENCY: Social Security Administration 

(SSA). 

ACTION: Notice of a new matching 

program. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

provisions of the Privacy Act, as 

amended, this notice announces a new 

matching program with the Office of 

Personnel Management (OPM). Under 

this matching program, OPM will 

disclose civil service benefit and 

payment data to SSA. SSA is legally 

required to offset specific benefits by a 

percentage of civil service benefits 

received (Spousal and Survivors 

benefits, Supplemental Security Income 

(SSI) benefits, and Retirement and 

Disability Insurance Benefits are offset 

by a percentage of the recipients’ own 

Federal Government pension benefits). 

SSA administers the Old Age, 

Survivors, Disability Insurance (OASDI), 

SSI, and Special Veterans’ Benefits 

(SVB) programs. SSA will use the match 

results under this agreement to meet its 

civil service benefit offset obligations. 

SSA’s Office of the Chief Actuary (OCA) 

will also use OPM’s data for statistical 

and research purposes in tracking the 

size of, and impact on, subpopulations 

of government annuitants affected by 

the Government Pension Offset, the 

Windfall Elimination Provision, and in 

cost estimates of proposals to change the 

two provisions. 

DATES: Submit comments on the 

proposed matching program no later 

than March 13, 2024. 

The matching program will be 

applicable on March 11, 2024, or once 

a minimum of 30 days after publication 

of this notice has elapsed, whichever is 

later. The matching program will be in 

effect for a period of 18 months. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any one of four methods—internet, 

fax, mail, or email. Do not submit the 

same comments multiple times or by 

more than one method. Regardless of 

which method you choose, please state 


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