Notice2024-22719
Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request
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October 2, 2024
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Social Security Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 191 (Wednesday, October 2, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 80302-80303]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-22719]
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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
[Docket No: SSA-2024-0037]
Agency Information Collection Activities: 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 revisions 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
(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#fdb2afd3af988d928f898ed3be91989c8f9c939e98bd8e8e9cd39a928b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="622d304c3007120d1016114c210e070310030c0107221111034c050d14">[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-2024-0037] in
your submitted response.
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 November 1, 2024. Individuals can obtain copies of
these OMB clearance packages by writing to the
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3d726f136f584d524f494e137e51585c4f5c535e587d4e4e5c135a524b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2a657804784f5a45585e590469464f4b584b44494f6a59594b044d455c">[email protected]</span></a>.
Background
The Social Security Administration (SSA) is requesting clearance to
collect data necessary to evaluate the Youth Transition Exploration
Demonstration (YTED) 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 YTED, 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.
YTED Project Description
YTED 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
YTED is important to help SSA and other interested parties assess
promising options to improve employment-related outcomes and decrease
benefit receipts. Mathematica is directing YTED and evaluating it via a
randomized controlled trial. OVR will recruit 700 youth into YTED 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
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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-YTED (VRC-YTED) for up to
12 months. Key enhanced services provided by a VRC-YTED 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 who are selected by SSA to enroll in YTED.
Correction Notice: SSA published this information collection as
Transition Exploration Demonstration (TED), on June 29, 2024, at 89 FR
53472. We are changing the name of the information collection to Youth
Transition Exploration Demonstration (YTED).
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Average burden Average Total annual
Modality of completion Number of Frequency of Total number per response Total annual theoretical opportunity
respondents response of respondents (in minutes) burden (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 18 2 36 68 41 * 31.48 ** 1,291
staff..................................
Qualitative data collection with 4 3 12 45 9 * 7.25 ** 65
treatment group members................
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Total............................... 1,982 .............. 2,008 .............. 529 .............. ** 4,829
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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-ManagementRelations/llc/Pages/Wage-FAQs.aspx">https://www.dli.pa.gov/Individuals/Labor-ManagementRelations/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: September 27, 2024.
Naomi Sipple,
Reports Clearance Officer, Social Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 2024-22719 Filed 10-1-24; 8:45 am]
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