§401.150 Compatible purposes.

(a) General. The Privacy Act allows us to disclose information, without the consent of the individual, to any other party for routine uses.

(b) Routine use. We publish notices of systems of records in the FEDERAL REGISTER which contain a list of all routine use disclosures.

(c) Determining compatibility. We disclose information for routine uses where necessary to carry out SSA's programs. It is also our policy to disclose information for use in other programs which have the same purposes as SSA programs if the information concerns eligibility, benefit amounts, or other matters of benefit status in a social security program and is relevant to determining the same matters in the other program. For example, we disclose information to the Railroad Retirement Board for pension and unemployment compensation programs, to the Veterans Administration for its benefit program, to worker's compensation programs, to State general assistance programs, and to other income maintenance programs at all levels of government; we also disclose for health-maintenance programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and in appropriate cases, for epidemiological and similar research.