Notice2023-06682
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Request and Comment Request
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 62 (Friday, March 31, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19340-19343]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-06682]
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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
[Docket No: SSA-2023-0006]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Request and
Comment Request
The Social Security Administration (SSA) publishes a list of
information collection packages requiring clearance by the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) in compliance with Public Law 104-13, the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, effective October 1, 1995. This notice
includes two new collection and a revision of OMB-approved information
collections.
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 ways to minimize burden
on respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology. Mail, email, or fax your
comments and recommendations on the information collection(s) to the
OMB Desk Officer and SSA Reports Clearance Officer at the following
addresses or fax numbers.
(OMB) Office of Management and Budget, Attn: Desk Officer for SSA,
Comments: <a href="https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Submit your
comments online referencing Docket ID Number [SSA-2023-0006].
(SSA) Social Security Administration, OLCA, Attn: Reports Clearance
Director, 3100 West High Rise, 6401 Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD
21235, Fax: 410-966-2830, Email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#97d8c5b9c5f2e7f8e5e3e4b9d4fbf2f6e5f6f9f4f2d7e4e4f6b9f0f8e1"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="bdf2ef93efd8cdd2cfc9ce93fed1d8dccfdcd3ded8fdcecedc93dad2cb">[email protected]</span></a>.
Or you may submit your comments online through <a href="https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>, referencing Docket ID Number [SSA-
2023-0023].
I. The information collection below is pending at SSA. SSA will
submit it to OMB within 60 days from the date of this notice. To be
sure we consider your comments, we must receive them no later than May
30, 2023. Individuals can obtain copies of the collection
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instrument by writing to the above email address.
State of Georgia's Criminal Justice Coordinating Council's (CJCC)
Evaluation of the Implementation of the Supplemental Security Income
(SSI)/Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) Outreach, Access, and
Recovery (SOAR) Model in County Jails--0960-NEW.
Background
SSA is requesting clearance to collect data necessary to evaluate
an intervention under the Interventional Cooperative Agreement Program
(ICAP) with the State of Georgia's Criminal Justice Coordinating
Council (CJCC). ICAP allows SSA to partner with various non-federal
groups and organizations to advance interventional research connected
to the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security
Disability Insurance (SSDI) programs. SSA awarded CJCC a cooperative
agreement to conduct an intervention and evaluation of the Supplemental
Security Income (SSI)/Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI)
Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) model in county jails with
inmates with serious and persistent mental illness (SPMI) across the
state. In addition to SSA, CJCC has partnered with the following: (1)
Applied Research Services (ARS); (2) the Georgia Department of
Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities (DBHDD); and (3) four
county jails to implement the program.
ICAP CJCC Project Description
Investigators hypothesize that untreated mental illness and
repeated psychiatric crises may be a factor in jail recidivism.
Connection to SSI/SSDI and attendant insurance benefits may help a
person with SPMI obtain treatment and interrupt criminogenic behavior.
The intervention will connect respondents in four county jails
identified as having SPMI to Medicaid Eligibility Specialists (MES)
hired and trained by the Georgia DBHDD, who will help them apply for
SSI and SSDI. Respondents in two of the four counties (Fulton County
Jail and Cobb County Jail) will also have the option of working with a
Forensic Peer Mentor (FPM), a formerly incarcerated individual who is
familiar with resources that may help participants increase their
quality-of-life post incarceration and avoid recidivism. SSA
anticipates the two DBHDD MESs will each serve 45 participants per
year, for a total of 90 participants per year.
To maximize the likelihood of the SSI/SSDI application approval,
the MES will employ the SOAR method, which uses in-depth medical and
personal summaries of disability to facilitate the SSI/SSDI application
process. Researchers will collect data from participant surveys to
evaluate and study the impact of the intervention. Through the data
collected through these surveys, along with administrative data from
SSA, the State of Georgia, participating counties, and DBHDD, SSA hopes
to address the following research questions:
<bullet> Does connection to a SOAR-trained specialist increase the
likelihood that a person with SPMI in jail will be approved for SSI/
SSDI benefits?
<bullet> If a person with SPMI receives SSI/SSDI benefits, are they
able to connect to treatment resources that they may not have been able
to obtain before?
<bullet> If a person with SPMI connects to treatment resources and
successfully engages with them, are they able to achieve mental health
recovery and stay out of jail?
The respondents are individuals with serious and persistent mental
illness incarcerated in county jails in the state of Georgia.
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Average
Average burden Estimated theoretical Total annual
Modality of completion Number of Frequency of per response total annual hourly cost opportunity
respondents response (minutes) burden (hours) amount cost (dollars)
(dollars) * **
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Initial Enrollment Survey (Paper)....................... 90 1 19 29 * $12.81 ** $371
Informed Consent (Paper)................................ 90 1 10 15 * 12.81 ** 192
Follow-up Survey (Internet)............................. 90 2 23 69 * 12.81 ** 884
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Totals.............................................. 270 .............. .............. 113 .............. ** 1,447
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* We based this figure on the average DI payments based on SSA's current FY 2023 data (<a href="https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/2023factsheet.pdf">https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/2023factsheet.pdf</a>).
** This figure does not represent actual costs that SSA is imposing on recipients of Social Security payments to complete this application; rather,
these are theoretical opportunity costs for the additional time respondents will spend to complete the application. There is no actual charge to
respondents to complete the application.
II. SSA submitted the information collections below to OMB for
clearance. Your comments regarding these information collections would
be most useful if OMB and SSA receive them 30 days from the date of
this publication. To be sure we consider your comments, we must receive
them no later than May 1, 2023. Individuals can obtain copies of these
OMB clearance packages by writing to <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5c130e720e392c332e282f721f30393d2e3d323f391c2f2f3d723b332a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="7f302d512d1a0f100d0b0c513c131a1e0d1e111c1a3f0c0c1e51181009">[email protected]</span></a>.
1. Vocational Resource Facilitator Demonstration--0960-NEW. SSA is
undertaking the Vocational Resource Facilitator Demonstration (VRFD)
under the ICAP. ICAP allows SSA to partner with various non-federal
groups and organizations to advance interventional research connected
to the SSI and SSDI programs. VRFD will test the Vocational Resource
Facilitator (VRF) intervention, which helps newly injured spinal cord
injury or disease (SCI), or brain injury (BI) patients pursue their
employment goals. The VRFD will provide empirical evidence on the
impact of the intervention on patients in several critical areas: (1)
employment and earnings; (2) SSI and SSDI benefit receipt; and (3)
satisfaction and well-being. A rigorous evaluation of VRFD is critical
to help SSA and other interested parties assess promising options to
improve employment-related outcomes and decrease benefit receipt. The
VRFD evaluation uses a randomized control experimental design that
includes one treatment group and one control group. Control group
members will receive a referral for services to the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation Services (DVRS), New Jersey's state
Vocational Rehabilitation agency. The treatment group will receive a
referral to DVRS and employment services from a resource facilitator
(RF). RFs are fully integrated members of clinical teams who engage
with injured workers during inpatient rehabilitation about return to
work. The central research questions include:
<bullet> Was the intervention implemented as planned?
<bullet> What are key considerations for scaling up or adopting the
VRF model at other facilities?
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<bullet> What were the impacts of VRF on outcomes of interest?
<bullet> Did treatment group members earn or work more than control
group members?
<bullet> Were treatment group members relatively less likely to
apply to or receive SSI or SSDI benefits?
<bullet> Did treatment group members experience greater
satisfaction and well-being than control group members?
<bullet> What were the benefits and costs of the demonstration
across key groups?
The proposed public survey data collections will support three
components of the planned implementation, impact, and benefit-cost
analyses. The data collection efforts will provide information that is
not available in SSA program records about the characteristics and
outcomes of VRFD participants in the treatment and control groups.
Respondents are newly injured SCI and BI patients, who will provide
written consent before agreeing to participate in the study and be
randomly assigned to one of the study groups.
Type of Request: Request for a new information collection.
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Average Average wait
Average burden Estimated theoretical time for Total annual
Modality of completion Number of Frequency of per response total annual hourly cost teleservice opportunity
respondents response (minutes) burden (hours) amount centers cost (dollars)
(dollars) * (minutes) ** ***
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Informed Consent Form................... 500 1 10 83 * $28.01 .............. *** $2,325
Baseline Survey......................... 500 1 15 125 * 28.01 .............. *** 3,501
12-month Follow-up Survey............... 400 1 20 133 * 28.01 ** 19 *** 7,283
Staff Interviews with Site Staff........ 10 2 66 22 * 28.01 .............. *** 616
Onsite Audit of sample of case files.... 1 2 30 1 * 28.01 .............. *** 28
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Totals.............................. 1,411 .............. .............. 364 .............. .............. *** 13,753
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* We based this figure on the average U.S. worker's hourly wages, as reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics data (<a href="https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm">https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm</a>).
** We based this figure by averaging the average FY 2023 wait times for field offices and teleservice centers, based on SSA's current management
information data.
*** This figure does not represent actual costs that SSA is imposing on recipients of Social Security payments to complete this application; rather,
these are theoretical opportunity costs for the additional time respondents will spend to complete the application. There is no actual charge to
respondents to complete the application.
2. Application for a Social Security Number Card, the Social
Security Number Application Process (SSNAP), and internet SSN
Replacement Card (iSSNRC) Application--20 CFR 422.103-422.110--0960-
0066. SSA collects information on the SS-5 (used in the United States)
and SS-5-FS (used outside the United States) to issue original or
replacement Social Security cards. SSA also enters the application data
into the SSNAP application when issuing a card via telephone or in
person. In addition, hospitals collect the same information on SSA's
behalf for newborn children through the Enumeration-at-Birth process.
In this process, parents of newborns provide hospital birth
registration clerks with information required to register these
newborns. Hospitals send this information to State Bureaus of Vital
Statistics (BVS), and they send the information to SSA's National
Computer Center. SSA then uploads the data to the SSA mainframe along
with all other enumeration data, and we assign the newborn a Social
Security number (SSN) and issue a Social Security card. Respondents can
also use these modalities to request a change in their SSN records. In
addition, the iSSNRC internet application collects information similar
to the paper SS-5 for no-change, and a name change due to marriage,
replacement SSN cards for adult U.S. citizens. The iSSNRC modality
allows certain applicants for SSN replacement cards to complete the
internet application and submit the required evidence online rather
than completing a paper Form SS-5. Finally, oSSNAP collects information
similar to that which we collect on the paper SS-5 for no change
situations, with the exception of a name change. oSSNAP allows
applicants, both U.S. citizens and non-citizens, for new or replacement
SSN cards to start the application process on-line, receive a list of
evidentiary documents, and then submit the application data to SSA for
further processing by SSA employees. Applicants need to visit a local
SSA office to complete the application process. We are planning to make
minor changes to clarify that one screen is optional, and to provide a
space for respondents to inform SSA of the types of documents they will
present during the in-person follow up meeting. The respondents for
this information collection are applicants for original and replacement
Social Security cards, or individuals who wish to change information in
their SSN records, who use any of the modalities described above.
Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information
collection.
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Average
Average Estimated Average wait time
Number of Frequency burden per total theoretical in field Total annual opportunity
Application scenario respondents of response response annual hourly cost office cost (dollars) ***
(minutes) burden amount (minutes)
(hours) (dollars) * **
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EAB Modality
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Hospital staff who relay the State birth 3,759,517 1 5 313,293 * $24.49 ** 0 *** $7,672,546
certificate information to the BVS and SSA
through the EAB process....................
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iSSNRC Modality
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Adult U.S. Citizens requesting a replacement 3,002,698 1 5 250,225 * 28.01 ** 0 *** 7,008,802
card with no changes through the iSSNRC....
Adult U.S. Citizens requesting a replacement 1,312 1 5 109 * 28.01 ** 0 *** 3,053
card with a name change through iSSNRC.....
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oSSNAP Modality
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Adult U.S. Citizens providing information to 822,104 1 5 68,509 * 28.01 ** 24 *** 11,129,802
receive a replacement card through the
oSSNAP \+\.................................
Adult U.S. Citizens providing information to 37,323 1 5 3,110 * 28.01 * 24 *** 505,272
receive an original card through the oSSNAP
\+\........................................
Adult Non-U.S. Citizens providing 204,081 1 5 17,007 * 28.01 ** 24 *** 2,762,878
information to receive an original card
through the oSSNAP \+\.....................
Adult Non-U.S. Citizens providing 84,635 1 5 7,053 * 28.01 ** 24 *** 1,145,805
information to receive a replacement card
through the oSSNAP \+\.....................
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SSNAP/SS-5 Modality
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Respondents who do not have to provide 6,973,505 1 9 1,046,026 * 28.01 ** 24 *** 107,430,338
parents' SSNs..............................
Respondents whom we ask to provide parents' 207,521 1 9 31,128 * 28.01 ** 24 *** 3,196,949
SSNs (when applying for original SSN cards
for children under age 12).................
Applicants age 12 or older who need to 1,113,144 1 10 185,524 * 28.01 ** 24 *** 17,668,204
answer additional questions so SSA can
determine whether we previously assigned an
SSN........................................
Applicants asking for a replacement SSN card 6,703 1 60 6,703 * 28.01 ** 24 *** 262,846
beyond the allowable limits (i.e., who must
provide additional documentation to
accompany the application).................
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Enumeration Quality Review
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Authorization to SSA to obtain personal 500 1 15 125 * 28.01 ** 24 *** 9,103
information cover letter...................
Authorization to SSA to obtain personal 500 1 15 125 * 28.01 ** 24 *** 9,103
information follow-up cover letter.........
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Grand Total
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Totals.................................. 16,213,543 ........... ........... 1,928,937 ........... ........... *** 159,309,973
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\+\ The number of respondents for this modality is an estimate based on google analytics data for the SS-5 form downloads from SSA.Gov.
* We based this figure on average Hospital Records Clerks (<a href="https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes292098.htm">https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes292098.htm</a>), and average U.S. worker's hourly wages
(<a href="https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm">https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm</a>) as reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
** We based this figure on the average FY 2023 wait times for field offices, based on SSA's current management information data.
*** This figure does not represent actual costs that SSA is imposing on recipients of Social Security payments to complete this application; rather,
these are theoretical opportunity costs for the additional time respondents will spend to complete the application. There is no actual charge to
respondents to complete the application.
Dated: March 28, 2023.
Naomi Sipple,
Reports Clearance Officer, Social Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 2023-06682 Filed 3-30-23; 8:45 am]
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