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ADDRESSES: To submit comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection, please type the 

following link into your browser: 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain, 

select ‘‘Currently under Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’, then search the 

list for the information collection by 

Title or ‘‘OMB Control No. 2900–0681.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: VA 

PRA information: Maribel Aponte, 202– 

461–8900, vacopaperworkreduact@

va.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: VA Form 28–0791, Pre and Post 

Independent Living Assessment. 

OMB Control Number: 2900–0681 

https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRASearch. 

Type of Review: Reinstatement with 

change of a previously approved 

collection. 

Abstract: VA Form 28–0791, Pre and 

Post Independent Living Assessment 

(IL) is used by the Vocational 

Rehabilitation Counselor (VRC) during 

the initial and post IL evaluations. 

During this face-to-face meeting, the 

VRC identifies impairments and or 

barriers the Veteran may be 

experiencing with Activities of Daily 

Living (ADLs). The VRC then uses this 

information to identify the needs for 

services. The VRC compares the 

information obtained from the 

preliminary and post plan assessments 

to determine if there are improvements 

in the Veteran’s activities of daily living. 

Without the information gathered on 

this form, VR&E is not able to identify 

IL needs and provide needed services. 

There are no other invitations or other 

communications sent to the respondent 

associated with the information 

collection. Failure to collect this 

information would have a detrimental 

impact upon the determination of 

appropriate rehabilitation goals for 

Veterans participating in the IL 

program. This would negatively impact 

the Veteran’s participation in his or her 

rehabilitation program. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. The Federal Register 

Notice with a 60-day comment period 

soliciting comments on this collection 

of information was published at 89 FR 

57996, July 16, 2024. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

Households. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 906 hours. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Respondent: 30 minutes. 

Frequency of Response: Two times. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

906 per year. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. 

Maribel Aponte, 

VA PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

Enterprise and Integration, Data Governance 

Analytics, Department of Veterans Affairs. 

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program 

AGENCY: Department of Veterans Affairs 

(VA). 

ACTION: Notice of a new matching 

program. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Veterans 

Affairs (VA) provides notice that it 

intends to conduct a recurring 

computer-matching program matching 

Social Security Administration (SSA) 

Master Beneficiary Records (MBRs) and 

the Master Files of Social Security 

Number (SSN) Holders and SSN 

Applications (Enumeration System) 

with VA pension, compensation, and 

dependency and indemnity 

compensation (DIC) records. The goal of 

this match is to identify beneficiaries, 

who are receiving VA benefits and SSA 

benefits or earned income, and to 

reduce or terminate VA benefits, if 

appropriate. The match will include 

records of current VA beneficiaries. 

DATES: Comments on this matching 

program must be received no later than 

30 days after date of publication in the 

Federal Register. If no public comment 

is received during the period allowed 

for comment or unless otherwise 

published in the Federal Register by 

VA, the new agreement will become 

effective a minimum of 30 days after 

date of publication in the Federal 

Register. If VA receives public 

comments, VA shall review the 

comments to determine whether any 

changes to the notice are necessary. This 

matching program will be valid for 18 

months from the effective date of this 

notice. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted through www.Regulations.gov 

or mailed to VA Privacy Service, 810 

Vermont Avenue NW, (005X6F), 

Washington, DC 20420. Comments 

should indicate that they are submitted 

in response to SSA’s benefit data, CMA 

1030. Comments received will be 

available at regulations.gov for public 

viewing, inspection or copies. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jennifer Feuer, 

PFBUSMGMT.VBAVACO@VA.GOV, 

Pension and Fiduciary Service, Front 

Office, Pension and Fiduciary Service 

(21P), Department of Veterans Affairs, 

810 Vermont Ave NW, Washington, DC, 

20420, (202) 632–8863. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: VA will 

use this information to verify the 

income information submitted by 

beneficiaries in VA’s income-based 

benefit programs and adjust VA benefit 

payments as prescribed by law. The 

legal authority to conduct this match is 

38 U.S.C. 5106, which requires any 

Federal department or agency to provide 

VA such information as VA requests for 

the purposes of determining eligibility 

for benefits or verifying other 

information with respect to payment of 

benefits. 

Participating Agencies: The Social 

Security Administration (SSA) and 

Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). 

Authority for Conducting the 

Matching Program: Federal law at 38 

U.S.C. 5106 requires Federal agencies to 

furnish VA with information the VA 

Secretary may request for determining 

eligibility for or the amount of VA 

benefits. 

Purpose(s): To update VA master 

records of VA beneficiaries and their 

dependents receiving incomedependent benefits and to adjust VA 

income-dependent benefits based on 

benefit information received from SSA 

regarding amount of SSA benefits. 

Categories of Individuals: Veterans 

and beneficiaries who apply for VA 

income benefits. 

Categories of Records: VA will 

provide SSA with an electronic file in 

a format defined by SSA that contains 

the Social Security number (SSN) for all 

beneficiaries in receipt of income-based 

VA benefits. SSA will provide an SSN 

verification for each record that VA 

submits based on a review of the Master 

Files of SSN Holders and SSN 

Applications (Enumeration System). 

SSA will provide Title II benefit data 

from the Master Beneficiary Record 

(MBR) for only those SSNs that verify 

against the Enumeration System. 

System(s) of Records: SSA will 

disclose the necessary benefit 

information electronically from the 

MBR, system of records (SOR) number 

60–0090, last fully published at 71 FR 

1826 (January 11, 2006), amended at 72 

FR 69723 (December 10, 2007), 78 FR 

40542 (July 5, 2013), 83 FR 31250– 

31251 (July 3, 2018), 83 FR 54969 

(November 1, 2018), and 89 FR 825 

(January 5, 2024). SSA will disclose 

SSN verification information from the 

Enumeration System, SOR number 60– 

0058, last fully published at 87 FR 263 

(January 4, 2022). 

VA records involved in this match are 

in ‘‘VA Compensation, Pension, 


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Education, and Vocational 

Rehabilitation and Employment 

Records—VA’’ (58 VA 21/22/28), a 

system of records that was first 

published at 41 FR 9294 (March 3, 

1976), amended at 77 FR 42594 (July 19, 

2012), and last amended and 

republished in its entirety at 84 FR 4138 

(February 14, 2019), and amended at 86 

FR 61858 (November 8, 2021). 

Signing Authority 

The Senior Agency Official for 

Privacy, 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. John Oswalt, Chief 

Privacy Officer and Chair of the Data 

Integrity Board, Department of Veterans 

Affairs approved this document on 

August 28, 2024 for publication. 

Dated: October 8, 2024. 

Amy L. Rose, 

Government Information Specialist, VA 

Privacy Service, Office of Compliance, Risk 

and Remediation, Office of Information and 

Technology, Department of Veterans Affairs. 

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