[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 86 (Tuesday, May 5, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24836-24837]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-11944]


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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION


Information Collection Activities; Comment Requests

    This notice lists information collection packages that will require 
submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), as well as 
information collection packages submitted to OMB for clearance, in 
compliance with PL. 104-13 effective October 1, 1995, The Paperwork 
Reduction Act of 1995. The information

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collection(s) listed below have been submitted to OMB:
    1. Nursing Home Reporting Requirements Related to Supplemental 
Security Income (SSI) Recipients--0960-New. Public Law 103-387 requires 
long term, intermediate care and nursing home administrators to report 
SSI recipient admissions to SSA. SSA uses the information to determine 
whether SSI benefits should be reduced. The respondents are long term, 
intermediate care and nursing home administrators.
    Number of Respondents: 16,000.
    Frequency of Response: 2 per year.
    Average Burden Per Response: 15 minutes.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 8,000 hours.
    2. Survey of Interest in International Social Security Agreements--
0960-NEW. Section 233 of the Social Security Act authorizes the U.S. to 
enter into agreements with foreign countries for the purpose of 
eliminating double social security coverage and taxation and closing 
gaps in benefit protection for workers who have divided their careers 
between the U.S. and another country. SSA negotiates these agreements 
for the U.S. SSA is now planning its agreement negotiating agenda for 
the next several years. Since U.S. businesses with overseas operations 
are primary stake-holders in these agreements, SSA needs to survey 
these companies to determine which countries they believe would be good 
candidates for new Social Security agreements. SSA uses the 
information, together with estimates of potential foreign tax savings 
and benefit payments, to determine priorities for new Totalization 
agreement negotiations for fiscal years 1999 through 2003. The 
respondents are U.S. businesses with overseas operations who have 
requested certificates of U.S. coverage from SSA.
    Number of Respondents: 600.
    Frequency of Response: 1.
    Average Burden Per Response: 15 minutes.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 150 hours.
    Written comments and recommendations regarding the information 
collection(s) should be directed within 30 days to the OMB Desk Officer 
and SSA Reports Clearance Officer at the following addresses:

(OMB) Office of Management and Budget, OIRA, Attn: Laura Oliven, New 
Executive Office Building, Room 10230, 725 17th St., NW, Washington, 
D.C. 20503, and
(SSA) Social Security Administration, DCFAM, Attn: Nicholas E. 
Tagliareni, 1-A-21 Operations Bldg., 6401 Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 
21235.

    To receive a copy of any of the forms or clearance packages, call 
the SSA Reports Clearance Officer on (410) 965-4125 or write to him at 
the address listed above.

    Dated: April 27, 1998.
Nicholas E. Tagliareni,
Reports Clearance Officer, Social Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 98-11944 Filed 5-4-98; 8:45 am]
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