Notice2021-21670
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records; (Railroad Retirement Board-Office of Personnel Management)
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Published
October 5, 2021
Effective
November 4, 2021
Issuing agencies
Railroad Retirement Board
Abstract
As required by the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the RRB is issuing public notice of its renewal of an ongoing computer-matching program with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that expired on March 1, 2019. The purpose of this notice is to advise individuals applying for or receiving benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act of the use made by RRB of this information obtained from OPM by means of a computer match. We will file a report of this computer-matching program with the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House of Representatives; and the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 190 (Tuesday, October 5, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55021-55022]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2021-21670]
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RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records; (Railroad Retirement
Board--Office of Personnel Management)
AGENCY: Railroad Retirement Board (RRB).
ACTION: Renewal of computer-matching program.
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SUMMARY: As required by the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the RRB is
issuing public notice of its renewal of an ongoing computer-matching
program with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that expired on
March 1, 2019. The purpose of this notice is to advise individuals
applying for or receiving benefits under the Railroad Retirement Act of
the use made by RRB of this information obtained from OPM by means of a
computer match. We will file a report of this computer-matching program
with the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the
Senate; the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the House
of Representatives; and the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
DATES: This matching program will take effect November 4, 2021. The
matching program will continue for 18 months after the effective date
and may be extended for an additional 12 months, if the conditions
specified in 5 U.S.C. 552a(o)(2)(D) have been met, with an expiration
date of April 1, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Interested parties may comment on this publication by
writing to Ms. Stephanie Hillyard, Secretary to the Board, Railroad
Retirement Board,
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844 North Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611-1275.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Timothy Grant, Associate Chief
Information Officer, Railroad Retirement Board, 844 North Rush Street,
Chicago, Illinois 60611-2092, telephone 312-751-4869 or email at
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2c584541024b5e4d42586c5e5e4e024b435a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="deaab7b3f0b9acbfb0aa9eacacbcf0b9b1a8">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. General
The Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988, (Pub. L.
100-503), amended by the Privacy Act of 1974, (5 U.S.C. 552a) as
amended, requires a Federal agency participating in a computer matching
program to publish a notice in the Federal Register for all matching
programs.
The Privacy Act, as amended, regulates the use of computer matching
by Federal agencies when records contained in a Privacy Act System of
Records are matched with other Federal, State, or local government
records. It requires Federal agencies involved in computer matching
programs to:
(1) Negotiate written agreements with the other agency or agencies
participating in the matching programs;
(2) Obtain the approval of the matching agreement by the Data
Integrity Boards (DIB) of the participating Federal agencies;
(3) Publish notice of the computer matching program in the Federal
Register;
(4) Furnish detailed reports about matching programs to Congress
and OMB;
(5) Notify applicants and beneficiaries that their records are
subject to matching; and
(6) Verify match findings before reducing, suspending, terminating,
or denying a person's benefits or payments. The last published notice
for this matching program was March 1, 2018 (78 FR 70971).
B. RRB Computer Matches Subject to the Privacy Act
We have taken appropriate action to ensure that all of our computer
matching programs comply with the requirements of the Privacy Act, as
amended.
Notice of Computer Matching Program, RRB With the Office of Personnel
Management (OPM)
Name of Participating Agencies: OPM and RRB.
Authority for Conducting the Matching Program: Sections 3(a)(1),
4(a)(1) and 4(f)(1) of the Railroad Retirement Act, as amended, 45
U.S.C. 231b(a)(1), 231c(a)(1) and 231c(f)(1) require that the RRB
reduce the Railroad Retirement benefits of certain beneficiaries
entitled to Railroad Retirement employee and/or spouse/widow benefits
who are also entitled to a government pension based on their own non-
covered earnings. We call this reduction a Public Service Pension (PSP)
offset.
Section 224 of the Social Security Act, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 424a,
provides for the reduction of disability benefits when the disabled
worker is also entitled to a public disability benefit (PDB). We call
this a PDB offset. A civil service disability benefit is considered a
PDB. Section 224(h)(1) requires any Federal agency to provide RRB with
information in its possession that RRB may require for the purposes of
making a timely determination of the amount of reduction under section
224 of the Social Security Act. Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. Section 552a(b)(3)
OPM has established routine uses to disclose the subject information to
RRB.
Purpose of the Matching Program: The purpose of the match is to
enable the RRB to (1) identify affected RRB annuitants who are in
receipt of a Federal public pension benefit but who have not reported
receipt of this benefit to the RRB, and (2) receive timely and accurate
Federal public pension benefit information for affected RRB annuitants.
Categories of Individuals: Individuals receiving Federal public
pensions or RRB annuities. Categories of Records: OPM will provide the
RRB once a year via secure electronic file transfer, data extracted
from its annuity and survivor master file of its Civil Service
Retirement and Insurance Records. Normally on December of each year,
OPM transmits to us approximately 2.5 million electronic records for
matching. The records contain these data elements: Name, social
security number, date of birth, civil service claim number, first
potential month and year of eligibility for civil service benefits,
first month, day, year of entitlement to civil service benefits, amount
of current gross civil service benefits, and effective date (month,
day, year) of civil service amount, and where applicable, civil service
disability indicator, civil service FICA covered month indicator, and
civil service total service months. The RRB will match the Social
Security number, name, and date of birth contained in the OPM file
against approximately the 1.2 million records in our files. For records
that match, the RRB will extract the civil service payment information.
Systems of Records: The Privacy Act System of Records designation
is OPM/Central-1, (Civil Service Retirement and Insurance Records),
Published in the Federal Register on June 7, 2011 (76 FR 32997). The
RRB Privacy Act System of Records is RRB-22, Railroad Retirement,
Survivor, and Pensioner Benefit System, published in the Federal
Register on May 15, 2015 (80 FR 28018).
Dated: September 30, 2021.
By authority of the Board.
Stephanie Hillyard,
Secretary to the Board.
[FR Doc. 2021-21670 Filed 10-4-21; 8:45 am]
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