[Federal Register: November 16, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 220)]
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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

 
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Request and 
Comment Request

    In compliance with Public Law 104-13, the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995, SSA is providing notice of its information collections that 
require submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). SSA is 
soliciting comments on the accuracy of the agency's burden estimate; 
the need for the information; its practical utility; ways to enhance 
its quality, utility and clarity; and on ways to minimize burden on 
respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology.
    I. The information collection listed below will be submitted to OMB 
within 60 days from the date of this notice. Therefore, comments and 
recommendations regarding the information collection would be most 
useful if received by the Agency within 60 days from the date of this 
publication. Comments should be directed to the SSA Reports Clearance 
Officer at the address listed at the end of the notices. You can obtain 
a copy of the collection instrument by calling the SSA Reports 
Clearance Officer on (410) 965-4145, or by writing to him.
    Annual Registration Statement Identifying Separated Participants 
with Deferred Benefits, Schedule SSA--0960-0606 (1999 edition). 
Schedule SSA is a form filed annually as part of a series of pension 
plan documents required by Section 6057 of the IRS Code. Administrators 
of pension benefit plans are required to report specific information on 
future plan benefits for those participants who left plan coverage 
during the year. SSA maintains the information until a claim for Social 
Security benefits has been approved. At that time, SSA notifies the 
beneficiary of his/her potential eligibility for payments from the 
private pension plan. The respondents are administrators of pension 
benefit plans or their service providers employed to prepare the 
Schedule SSA on behalf of the pension benefit plan.
    Below are the estimates of the cost and hour burdens for completing 
and filing Schedule SSA(s). We have used an average to estimate the 
hour burden. However, the burden may be greater or smaller depending on 
whether the respondent is a large or small pension benefit plan and how 
many Schedule SSA's are filed in a given year.
    Number of Respondents: 88,000.
    Frequency of Response: Annually.
    Average Burden Per Respondent: 2.5 hours.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 220,074 hours.
    Estimated Annual Cost Burden for All Respondents: $12,194,400.

    II. The information collection listed below has been submitted to 
OMB for clearance. Written comments and recommendations on the 
information collections would be most useful if received within 30 days 
from the date of this publication. Comments should be directed to the 
SSA Reports Clearance Officer and the OMB Desk Officer at the addresses 
listed after this notice. You can obtain a copy of the OMB clearance 
package by calling the SSA Reports Clearance Officer on (410) 965-4145, 
or by writing to him.
    Medical Use Report, 20 CFR 416.268-0960-0267. The information 
required by this regulation is used by the Social Security 
Administration to determine if an individual is entitled to special 
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments. The respondents are SSI 
receipts whose payments were stopped based on earnings.
    Number of Respondents: 60,000.
    Frequency of Response: 1.
    Average Burden Per Response: 3 minutes.
    Estimated Average Burden: 3,000 hours.
    (SSA Address), Social Security Administration, DCFAM, Attn: 
Frederick W. Brickenkamp, 6401 Security Blvd., 1-A-21 Operations Bldg., 
Baltimore, MD 21235.
    (OMB Address), Office of Management and Budget, OIRA, Attn: Lori 
Schack, New Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 725 17th St., NW, 
Washington, DC 20503.

    Dated: November 9, 1999.
Frederick W. Brickenkamp,
Reports Clearance Officer, Social Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 99-29858 Filed 11-15-99; 8:45 am]
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