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1Section 202(t) of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 402(t). 

2Section 202(t)(2), (4), (11) of the Act, 42 U.S.C. 

402(t)(2), (4), (11). 

guidelines pertaining to computer 

matching at 54 FR 25818 (June 19, 

1989). 

Section 202 of the Act (42 U.S.C. 402) 

outlines the requirements for eligibility 

to receive Old-Age, Survivors, and 

Disability Insurance Benefits under Title 

II of the Act. Section 205(c) of the Act 

(42 U.S.C. 405) directs the 

Commissioner of Social Security to 

verify the eligibility of a beneficiary. 

This matching program employs CMS 

systems containing Protected Health 

Information (PHI) as defined by Health 

and Human Services (HHS) regulation 

‘‘Standards for Privacy of Individually 

Identifiable Health Information’’ (45 

CFR 160 and 164 (78 FR 5566, Parts A 

and E, published January 25, 2013)). PHI 

authorized by the routine uses may only 

be disclosed by CMS if, and as 

permitted or required by the ‘‘Standard 

for Privacy in Individually Identifiable 

Health Information,’’ (45 CFR 164.512d). 

Purpose(s) 

This matching program establishes 

the terms, conditions, and safeguards 

under which CMS will disclose to SSA 

Medicare non-utilization information 

for Social Security Title II beneficiaries 

aged 90 and above. 

CMS will identify Medicare enrollees 

whose records have been inactive for 

three or more years. SSA will use this 

data as an indicator to select and 

prioritize cases for review to determine 

continued eligibility for benefits under 

Title II of the Act. SSA will contact 

these individuals to verify ongoing 

eligibility. In addition, SSA will use this 

data for the purposes of fraud discovery 

and the analysis of fraud program 

operations; this agreement allows for 

SSA’s OAFP to evaluate the data for 

purposes of fraud detection. SSA will 

refer individual cases of suspected 

fraud, waste, or abuse to OIG for 

investigation. 

Categories of Individuals 

The individuals whose information is 

involved in this matching program are 

Social Security Title II beneficiaries 

aged 90 and above. 

Categories of Records 

SSA will provide CMS with a finder 

file containing the following 

information for each individual: (a) Title 

II Claim Account Number (CAN); (b) 

Title II Beneficiary Identification Code 

(BIC); (c) First Name, (d) Last Name, and 

(e) Date of birth. 

CMS will provide SSA with a 

response file containing the following 

information for each individual: (a) 

CMS File Number (identified as a 

Health Insurance Claim Number (HICN) 

or Medicare Beneficiary Identifier 

(MBI)); (b) Whether CMS matched 

Beneficiary or individual is a Medicare 

beneficiary; (c) Whether individual is a 

Medicaid recipient, (d) Whether 

Medicare was used in the last 3 years; 

(e) Whether the beneficiary is a part of 

an HMO; (f) Whether the beneficiary 

lives in a nursing home; (g) Whether the 

beneficiary has private health insurance; 

(h) Whether the beneficiary has 

veteran’s health insurance; or (i) 

Whether the beneficiary has Tricare 

insurance. 

System(s) of Records 

SSA will disclose to CMS information 

from the Master Beneficiary Record 

(MBR) (60–0090), last fully published 

January 11, 2006 (71 FR 1826), amended 

on December 10, 2007 (72 FR 69723), 

July 5, 2013 (78 FR 40542), July 3, 2018 

(83 FR 31250–31251), and November 1, 

2018 (83 FR 54969). 

SSA will retain any information from 

the CMS response file in the Anti-Fraud 

Enterprise Solution (AFES) System of 

Records for OAFP fraud-related 

analytics, or data that leads to OAFP to 

initiate a fraud investigation (60–0388) 

published May 3, 2018 (83 FR 19588). 

CMS will disclose to SSA information 

from the following Systems of Record 

(SORs): (a) National Claims History 

(NCH) (09–70–0558), published 

November 20, 2006 (71 FR 67137); (b) 

Enrollment Data Base (EDB) (09–70– 

0502), published February 26, 2008 at 

73 FR 10249; and (c) The Long Term 

Care—Minimum Data Set (MDS) (90– 

70–0528), published March 19, 2007 at 

72 FR 12801. 

SSA’s and CMS’s SORs have routine 

uses permitting the disclosures needed 

to conduct this match. 

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BILLING CODE 4191–02–P 

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 

[Docket No. SSA–2020–0054] 

Finding Regarding Foreign Social 

Insurance or Pension System of 

Mongolia 

AGENCY: Social Security Administration. 

ACTION: Notice of finding regarding 

foreign social insurance or pension 

system of Mongolia. 

SUMMARY: We find that, under the Alien 

Nonpayment Provision of the Social 

Security Act (Act), as amended, citizens 

of Mongolia may not continue to receive 

Social Security benefits under title II 

after 6 consecutive calendar months of 

absence from the United States, unless 

they meet an exception not related to 

citizenship of Mongolia. This finding is 

based on law, information, and data we 

received about the social insurance 

system of Mongolia. The Commissioner 

of Social Security delegated the 

authority to make this finding to the 

Deputy Commissioner for Retirement 

and Disability Policy. 

DATES: We will implement this finding 

on July 1, 2022. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Icie 

K. Allen, Office of Income Security 

Programs, 2500 Robert Ball Building, 

6401 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 

21235–6401, (410) 965–8945. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We are 

prohibited by law from paying benefits 

under title II of the Act to non-U.S. 

citizens who remain outside the United 

States for more than six consecutive 

calendar months, unless they meet an 

exception provided in the law. We refer 

to this portion of the law as the Alien 

Nonpayment Provision (ANP).1

We recently reviewed the Mongolian 

social insurance system to determine if 

it meets the criteria for an ANP 

exception. This is our first finding about 

the social insurance system of Mongolia 

under the ANP. As a result of this 

finding, citizens of Mongolia will still 

be required to meet an exception 

unrelated to citizenship in order to 

continue receiving benefits under title II 

of the Act after six consecutive calendar 

months outside the United States. 

Background: The ANP, section 202(t) 

of the Act, prohibits payment of title II 

benefits to individuals who are not U.S. 

citizens or nationals for any month after 

they have been outside the United 

States for more than six consecutive 

calendar months. Beneficiaries who 

meet one of the exceptions described in 

the ANP may continue to receive 

benefits under title II without regard to 

absence from the United States. Some of 

these exceptions require that 

dependents and survivors meet a 5-year 

U.S. residency requirement for benefits 

to continue after six consecutive 

calendar months of absence from the 

United States.2

To determine whether the social 

insurance or pension system meets the 

criteria for an exception under section 

202(t) of the Act, we review the foreign 

country’s laws. In addition, we review 

information and data that we receive 

from the administrators of the social 

insurance or pension system of that 

country. The Commissioner of the 

Social Security Administration 

publishes these findings in the Federal 

Register. 


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In September 2018, we received a 

completed SSA–142 Report of Social 

Insurance or Pension System, submitted 

by the Ministry of Labour and Social 

Protection of Mongolia. 

We conducted a thorough review to 

reach the finding we describe here. 

Section 202(t)(2) Exception 

Section 202(t)(2) of the Act provides 

that the prohibition of payment shall 

not apply to individuals who are 

citizens of a foreign country that the 

Commissioner of Social Security finds 

has a social insurance or pension system 

that is in effect and of general 

application in such country, and that: 

(A) pays periodic benefits, or the 

actuarial equivalent thereof, on account 

of old age, retirement, or death; and 

(B) permits individuals who are U.S. 

citizens but not citizens of that country 

and who qualify for benefits to receive 

those benefits, or the actuarial 

equivalent thereof, while outside the 

foreign country regardless of the 

duration of the absence. 

We find that Mongolia does not meet 

all of the required criteria of section 

202(t)(2) of the Act because, although it 

has a social insurance system that is in 

effect, is of general application, and 

meets the conditions in subparagraph 

(A), the social insurance system does 

not meet the conditions in subparagraph 

(B). 

Section 202(t)(4) Exception 

The ANP exceptions provided in 

section 202(t)(4) subparagraphs (A) and 

(B) shall not apply to a citizen of a 

foreign country that has a social 

insurance or pension system in effect 

and of general application, which 

satisfies section 202(t)(2)(A), but not 

section 202(t)(2)(B). 

Therefore, the ANP exceptions in 

section 202(t)(4)(A) and (B) do not apply 

to citizens of Mongolia due to the above 

finding under section 202(t)(2). 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Nos. 96.001, Social Security— 

Disability Insurance; 96.002, Social 

Security—Retirement Insurance; and 96.004, 

Social Security—Survivors Insurance) 

The Acting Commissioner of the 

Social Security Administration, Kilolo 

Kijakazi, Ph.D., M.S.W., having 

reviewed and approved this document, 

is delegating the authority to 

electronically sign this document to 

Faye I. Lipsky, who is the primary 

Federal Register Liaison for SSA, for 

purposes of publication in the Federal 

Register. 

Faye I. Lipsky, 

Federal Register Liaison, Office of Legislation 

and Congressional Affairs, Social Security 

Administration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 11773] 

Memorandum of Agreement Between 

the U.S. Department of State Bureau of 

Consular Affairs and Intercountry 

Adoption Accreditation and 

Maintenance Entity, Inc 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of State (the 

Department) is the lead Federal agency 

for implementation of the 1993 Hague 

Convention on Protection of Children 

and Co-operation in Respect of 

Intercountry Adoption (the Convention), 

the Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000 

(IAA), and the Intercountry Adoption 

Universal Accreditation Act of 2012 

(UAA). Among other things, the IAA 

and UAA give the Secretary of State 

responsibility, by entering into 

agreements with one or more qualified 

entities and designating such entities as 

accrediting entities, for the accreditation 

of agencies and approval of persons to 

provide adoption services in 

intercountry adoptions. This notice is to 

inform the public that on June 2, 2022, 

the Department entered into a renewed 

agreement with Intercountry Adoption 

Accreditation and Maintenance Entity, 

Inc. (IAAME), designating IAAME as an 

accrediting entity (AE) for five years. 

The text of the Memorandum of 

Agreement is included in its entirety at 

the end of this Notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Marisa Light (202) 485–6024, 

Adoption@state.gov. Hearing or speechimpaired persons may use the 

Telecommunications Devices for the 

Deaf (TDD) by contacting the Federal 

Information Relay Service at 1–800– 

877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department, pursuant to section 202(a) 

of the IAA, must enter into an 

agreement with at least one qualified 

entity and designate it as an accrediting 

entity. Accrediting entities may be (1) 

nonprofit private entities with expertise 

in developing and administering 

standards for entities providing child 

welfare services; or (2) state adoption 

licensing bodies that have expertise in 

developing and administering standards 

for entities providing child welfare 

services and that accredit only agencies 

located in that state. Both nonprofit 

accrediting entities and state accrediting 

entities must meet any other criteria that 

the Department may by regulation 

establish. IAAME is a nonprofit private 

entity with expertise in developing and 

administering standards for entities 

providing child welfare services. 

The final rule on accreditation of 

agencies and approval of persons (22 

CFR part 96) was originally published in 

the Federal Register (71 FR 8064–8066, 

February 15, 2006) and became effective 

on March 17, 2006. The final rule 

establishes the regulatory framework for 

the accreditation and approval function 

and provides the standards that the 

designated accrediting entities will 

follow in accrediting or approving 

adoption service providers. Under the 

UAA, adoption service providers 

working with prospective adoptive 

parents in non-Convention adoption 

cases need to comply with the same 

accreditation requirement and standards 

that apply in Convention adoption 

cases. 

Angela M Kerwin, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Overseas 

Citizens Services, Bureau of Consular Affairs 

(CA/OCS), U.S. Department of State. 

MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT 

BETWEEN THE DEPARTMENT OF 

STATE BUREAU OF CONSULAR 

AFFAIRS AND INTERCOUNTRY 

ADOPTION ACCREDITATION AND 

MAINTENANCE ENTITY, INC. 

Parties & Purpose of the Agreement 

The Department of State, Bureau of 

Consular Affairs (Department), and 

Intercountry Adoption Accreditation 

and Maintenance Entity, Inc. (IAAME), 

with its principal office located at 5950 

NW 1st Place, Suite 300, Gainesville, FL 

32607, hereinafter the ‘‘Parties,’’ are 

entering into this agreement for the 

purpose of designating Intercountry 

Adoption Accreditation and 

Maintenance Entity, Inc. (IAAME) as an 

accrediting entity under the 

Intercountry Adoption Act of 2000 

(IAA), Public Law 106–279, and 22 CFR 

part 96. 

Authorities 

The Department enters into this 

agreement pursuant to Sections 202 and 

204 of the IAA, 22 CFR part 96, and 

Delegation of Authority 261. IAAME has 

full authority to enter into this MOA 

under the authorization of IAAME’s 

Board of Directors. 


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