Notice2025-00128
Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request
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January 8, 2025
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 5 (Wednesday, January 8, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1588-1589]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-00128]
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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
[Docket No: SSA-2025-0001]
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#81ced3afd3e4f1eef3f5f2afc2ede4e0f3e0efe2e4c1f2f2e0afe6eef7"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="bcf3ee92eed9ccd3cec8cf92ffd0d9ddceddd2dfd9fccfcfdd92dbd3ca">[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-2025-0001] in
your submitted response.
I. 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 February 7, 2025. Individuals can obtain copies of
these OMB clearance packages by writing to the
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#642b364a3601140b1610174a2708010516050a0701241717054a030b12"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="eca3bec2be899c839e989fc2af80898d9e8d828f89ac9f9f8dc28b839a">[email protected]</span></a>.
1. Integrated Registration Services (IRES) System--20 CFR 401.45--
0960-0626. IRES is an internet-based application that replaces the
respondent's handwritten paper-based signature with a user
identification number (User ID) and a password. IRES provides
registration, authentication, and authorization gateway services for
Business-to-Government (B2G) suites of services, including, but not
limited to:
a. Business Services Online (BSO)
[ssquf] Claimant Representative Services
b. Government Services Online (GSO) (OMB#0960-0757)
[ssquf] Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) Services
[ssquf] Secure exchange of information between SSA and third
parties in support of SSA and other federal government-supported
programs
c. Customer Support Application (CSA)
[ssquf] CSA provides customer support service for IRES. CSA allows
users to complete the registration process via a telephone interview
with a Social Security customer service representative.
The IRES System verifies the identity of individuals, businesses,
organizations, entities, and government agencies seeking to use SSA's
secured internet and telephone applications. Individuals need this
verification to electronically request and exchange business data with
SSA. Requestors provide SSA with the information needed to establish
their identities. Once SSA verifies identity, the IRES system issues
the requestor a user identification number and a password to conduct
business with SSA. Respondents are employers; employees; third party
submitters of wage data business entities providing taxpayer
identification information; appointed representatives; representative
payees; and data exchange partners conducting business in support of
SSA programs.
Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information
collection.
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Estimated Average
Average total theoretical Total annual
Modality of completion Number of Frequency of burden per annual hourly cost opportunity
respondents response response burden amount cost
(minutes) (hours) (dollars) * (dollars) **
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IRES Internet Registrations.. 266,210 1 5 22,184 * $37.63 ** $834,784
IRES Internet Requestors..... 14,472,710 1 2 482,424 * 37.63 ** 18,153,615
IRES CS (CSA) Registrations.. 2,216 1 11 406 * 37.63 ** 15,278
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Totals....................... 14,741,136 ............ ........... 505,014 ............ ** 19,003,677
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* We based this figure on average U.S. citizen's hourly salary, 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>); hourly wages for Information and Record Keeping Analysts hourly
salary, as reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics data. (<a href="https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes434199.htm">https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes434199.htm</a>); and
average hourly wages for paralegals/legal assistants and lawyers as posted by the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics (<a href="https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm">https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm</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.
2. Notification of a Social Security Number (SSN) to an Employer
for Wage Reporting Purposes--20 CFR 422.103(a)--0960-0778. Individuals
applying for employment must provide a SSN or indicate they have
applied for one. However, when an individual applies for an initial
SSN, there is a delay between the assignment of the number and the
delivery of the SSN card. At an individual's request, SSA uses Form
SSA-132 to send the individual's SSN to an employer. Mailing this
information to the employer: (1) ensures the employer has the correct
SSN for the individual; (2) allows SSA to receive correct earnings
information for wage reporting purposes; and (3) reduces the delay in
the initial SSN assignment and delivery of the SSN information directly
to the employer. It also enables SSA to verify the employer as a
safeguard for the applicant's personally identifiable information. The
respondents are individuals applying for an initial SSN who ask SSA to
mail confirmation of their application or the SSN to their employers.
Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information
collection.
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Estimated Average
Average total theoretical Average wait time Total annual
Modality of completion Number of Frequency of burden per annual hourly cost in field office opportunity cost
respondents response response burden amount (minutes) ** (dollars) ***
(minutes) (hours) (dollars) *
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SSA-132............................... 361,902 1 5 30,159 * $31.48 ** 24 *** $5,506,482
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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 on the average FY 2025 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: January 2, 2025
Naomi Sipple,
Reports Clearance Officer, Social Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 2025-00128 Filed 1-7-25; 8:45 am]
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