Notice2024-14025
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Request
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June 26, 2024
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Social Security Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 123 (Wednesday, June 26, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53472-53473]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-14025]
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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
[Docket No: SSA-2024-0023]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed 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 one new collection for OMB-approval.
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, Fax:
202-395-6974
(SSA) Social Security Administration, OLCA, Attn: Reports Clearance
Director, Mail Stop 3253 Altmeyer, 6401 Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD
21235, Fax: 833-410-1631, Email address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#460914681423362934323568052a232734272825230635352768212930"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="afe0fd81fdcadfc0dddbdc81ecc3caceddcec1cccaefdcdcce81c8c0d9">[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> by clicking on Currently under Review--Open for
Public Comments and choosing to click on one of SSA's published items.
Please reference Docket ID Number [SSA-2024-0023] in your submitted
response.
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 August 26,
2024. Individuals can obtain copies of the collection instruments by
writing to the above email address.
Transition Exploration Demonstration (TED)--0960-NEW
Background
SSA is requesting clearance to collect data necessary to evaluate
the Transition Exploration Demonstration (TED) under the Interventional
Cooperative Agreement Program (ICAP). SSA awarded its second set of
cooperative agreements for ICAP on December 22, 2022. 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 Mathematica a cooperative agreement to lead the Transition
Exploration Demonstration (TED), which will help youth with
disabilities transition successfully into the adult labor force and
competitive, integrated employment.
In addition, Mathematica is partnering with the Pennsylvania Office
of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR) to recruit youth and deliver
intervention services and the University of Maryland's Center for
Transition and Career Innovation (UMD) to provide training and
technical assistance to OVR.
TED Project Description
The Transition Exploration (TE) intervention is part of a broader
effort by policymakers to identify new approaches to help potential
beneficiaries and their families many of whom have low income, increase
their incomes and self-sufficiency through work. The TE evaluation will
assess the effect of TED services on employment and earnings;
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability
Insurance (SSDI) benefit receipt; satisfaction; and well-being. TED
will include the following three components: (1) implementation
analysis; (2) impact analysis; and (3) benefit cost analysis:
<bullet> Implementation Analysis: will yield critical information
about the rollout and administration of TED, such as implications for
the impact analysis and for developing relationships with community
partners. Specifically, the implementation analysis will assess (1)
whether the intervention was implemented as intended; (2) what
successes and challenges were encountered during service delivery, and
(3) how OVR developed new or stronger collaborative relationships with
community partners.
<bullet> Impact Analysis: will leverage the experimental design to
provide rigorous quantitative estimates of the effects of TED on the
outcomes of enrollees. Because the study uses random assignment, the
treatment and control group members will have similar observed and
unobserved characteristics in statistical expectation when they enroll
in the study. Hence, the evaluation's impact estimates will provide an
unbiased assessment of whether the intervention can help youth with
disabilities earn or work more, become less reliant on SSI or SSDI
benefits, and experience greater satisfaction and well-being.
<bullet> Benefit-Cost Analysis: will assess whether the impacts of
TED on enrollee outcomes are large enough to justify the resources
required to produce them. By placing a dollar value on each benefit and
cost of the intervention, a benefit-
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cost analysis can summarize in one statistic all the intervention's
diverse impacts and cost.
TED will provide SSA with empirical evidence on the impact of the
intervention on youth in several outcome areas: (1) employment and
earnings; (2) SSI and SSDI benefit receipt; and (3) other related
outcomes, such as satisfaction and well-being. A rigorous evaluation of
TED is important to help SSA and other interested parties assess
promising options to improve employment-related outcomes and decrease
benefit receipts. Mathematica is directing TED and evaluating it via a
randomized controlled trial.
OVR will recruit 700 youth into TED over a two-year period.
Potential enrollees include all residents in the city of Philadelphia
and the surrounding four counties in Pennsylvania (Bucks, Chester,
Delaware, and Montgomery) ages 16 to 24 who qualify for vocational
rehabilitation (VR) services; have never signed an individualized plan
for employment with OVR; and are capable of giving informed consent or
assent. Once enrolled, youth assigned to the control group will remain
eligible for standard VR services and receive information about how to
apply to OVR. Youth assigned to the treatment group will open a case
with OVR and receive enhanced Transition Exploration (TE) services.
Treatment group members will receive services from a specially trained
OVR counselor called a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor-TED (VRC-
TED) for up to 12 months. Key enhanced services provided by a VRC-TED
will include career goal development, referral to intensive training
programs, referral to other employment-related resources, and intensive
engagement and follow up. As part of the TE intervention, OVR will
develop strong collaborative relationships with intensive training
programs like Job Corps and Year Up to facilitate seamless referrals
and cooperation. OVR will also provide counseling on SSI, SSDI, and
other benefits with a goal of helping youth to access them temporarily
while pursuing full-time work. The respondents are youth with
disabilities who qualify and are selected by SSA to enroll in TED.
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Average Total
Number of Frequency of Total burden per annual Average Total annual
Modality of completion respondents response number of response (in burden theoretical opportunity
respondents minutes) (hours) hourly cost cost
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Informed consent form and release form....................... 700 1 700 10 117 * $7.25 ** $848
Baseline survey.............................................. 700 1 700 15 175 * 7.25 ** 1,269
12-month follow-up survey.................................... 560 1 560 20 187 * 7.25 ** 1,356
Qualitative data collection with site staff.................. 18 2 36 68 41 * 31.48 ** 1,291
Qualitative data collection with treatment group members..... 4 3 12 45 9 * 7.25 ** 65
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Total.................................................... 1,982 ............ 2,008 ............ 529 ........... 42,829
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* We based this figure on the average minimum wage, as reported by Pennsylvania's Current data at Department of Labor & Industry data (<a href="https://www.dli.pa.gov/Individuals/Labor-Management-Relations/llc/Pages/Wage-FAQs.aspx">https://www.dli.pa.gov/Individuals/Labor-Management-Relations/llc/Pages/Wage-FAQs.aspx</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.
Dated: June 21, 2024.
Naomi Sipple,
Reports Clearance Officer, Social Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 2024-14025 Filed 6-25-24; 8:45 am]
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