34674 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 122 /Thursday, June 25, 1998 / Notices

1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1).

OFFICE OF PERSONNEL

MANAGEMENT

Privacy Act of 1974; Computer

Matching Program Between the Office

of Personnel Management and the

Social Security Administration

AGENCY: Office of Personnel

Management (OPM)

ACTION: Notice of a computer matching

program between OPM and the Social

Security Administration (SSA) for

comment.

SUMMARY: OPM is publishing notice of

its computer matching program with

SSA to meet the reporting and

publication requirements of Public Law

100–503, the Computer Matching and

Privacy Protection Act of 1988. The

purpose of this match is to identify

beneficiaries who have remarried and

not reported the remarriages to OPM.

Generally, remarriage terminates

benefits for survivor annuitants 55 years

of age or younger. A recent amendment

creates an exception based on a

marriage that lasted 30 years or more. In

this match, OPM will provide SSA with

surnames, dates of birth, and Social

Security Numbers to identify survivor

beneficiaries who have not reported

remarriages to OPM and are improperly

receiving benefits under the Civil

Service Retirement and Federal

Employees’ Retirement Systems (CSRS

and FERS). The match will be

conducted with SSA’s Numident file, a

source of beneficiaries’ current

surnames.

DATES: This proposed action will

become effective 40 days after the

agreements by the parties participating

in the match have been submitted to

Congress and the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB), unless either the

Congress or OMB objects thereto. Any

public comment on this matching

program must be submitted within the

30-day public notice period, which

begins on the publication date of this

notice.

ADDRESSES: Any interested party may

submit written comments to Kathleen

M. McGettigan, Assistant Director for

Systems, Finance, and Administration,

Retirement and Insurance Service,

Office of Personnel Management, Room

4316, 1900 E Street, NW., Washington,

D.C. 20415.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Marc Flaster, (202) 606–2115.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OPM and

SSA have concluded an agreement to

conduct a computer matching program

between the two agencies. The purpose

of this agreement is to establish the

conditions under which SSA agrees to

the disclosure of information from the

Numident file to OPM. The legal

authority for this matching program can

be found in 5 U.S.C. sections 8341,

8347, 8442 and 8461.

Office of Personnel Management.

Janice R. Lachance

Director.

Report of Computer Matching

Agreement Between the Office of

Personnel Management (OPM) and the

Social Security Administration (SSA)

A. Participating Agencies

OPM and SSA.

B. Purpose of the Matching Program

Chapters 83 and 84 of title 5, United

States Code (U.S.C.) provide the basis

for paying a survivor annuity to

widows, widowers, former spouses, or

children. The purpose of this match is

to identify beneficiaries who have

remarried and not reported the

remarriage to OPM. A surviving widow,

widower, or former spouse loses

entitlement to a survivor annuity upon

remarrying before becoming 55 years of

age. OPM has been required to terminate

the survivor annuity. A recent

amendment creates an exception to the

termination requirement, under certain

conditions, for marriages that have

lasted 30 or more years. This allows

eligibility for a survivor annuity based

on a 30-or-more-year marriage to

continue, and terminate only upon the

death of the survivor annuitant (or in

the case of a former spouse, as specified

by the terms of the court order).

In this match, OPM will provide SSA

with surnames, dates of birth, and

Social Security Numbers for a sample of

beneficiaries to identify survivor

beneficiaries who have not reported

remarriages to OPM and are improperly

receiving benefits under the Civil

Service Retirement and Federal

Employees Retirement Systems (CSRS

and FERS). The match will be

conducted with SSA’s Numident file, a

source of beneficiaries’ current

surnames.

C. Authority for Conducting the

Matching Program

5 U.S.C., Sections 8341, 8347, 8442,

8461 and 552a (Privacy Act).

D. Categories of Records and

Individuals Covered by the Match

The SSA file used in the match is

contained in SSA System of Records

09–60–0058, Master Files of Social

Security Number holders, last published

at 60 FR 2144, January 6, 1995. OPM’s

records consist of annuity data from its

system of records entitled OPM.Central1-Civil Service Retirement and

Insurance Records, last published in the

Federal Register at 60 FR 63075,

December 8, 1995.

E. Description of Matching Program

OPM will disclose to SSA the Social

Security Numbers, dates of birth, sex

codes, and names of beneficiaries under

CSRS and FERS whose benefits could be

affected by remarriage. SSA will

identify and provide OPM with an

extract of the Numident record for each

record that SSA matches. OPM will only

use those data elements pertinent to the

purpose of the match.

F. Inclusive Dates of the Matching

Program

This computer matching program is

subject to review by the Congress and

the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB). OPM’s report to these parties

must be at least 40 days prior to the

initiation of any matching activity. If no

objections are raised by either Congress

or OMB, and the mandatory 30-day

public notice period for comment for

this Federal Register notice expires,

with no significant receipt of adverse

public comments resulting in a contrary

determination, then this computer

matching program becomes effective. By

agreement between OPM and SSA, the

matching program will be in effect and

continue for 18 months with an option

to renew for 12 additional months under

the terms set forth in 5 U.S.C.

552a(o)(2)(D).

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