Notice2025-12294
Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request
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July 2, 2025
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 125 (Wednesday, July 2, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29100-29102]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-12294]
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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
[Docket No: SSA-2025-0036]
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 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.
(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#eaa5b8c4b88f9a85989e99c4a9868f8b988b84898faa99998bc48d859c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0f405d215d6a7f607d7b7c214c636a6e7d6e616c6a4f7c7c6e21686079">[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-2025-0036] in
your submitted response.
SSA submitted the information collection below to OMB for
clearance. Your comments regarding this information collection 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 August 1, 2025. Individuals can obtain copies of these
OMB clearance packages by writing to the <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#aee1fc80fccbdec1dcdadd80edc2cbcfdccfc0cdcbeeddddcf80c9c1d8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="6b243945390e1b04191f184528070e0a190a05080e2b18180a450c041d">[email protected]</span></a>.
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Supportive Housing & Individual Placement and Support (SHIPS) Study--
0960-0840
Background
Homelessness and unemployment are linked issues, with rising
housing costs often leaving people unable to afford homes when combined
with unemployment. The instability of housing makes finding employment
even more challenging, creating a difficult cycle to break.
While studies have shown that supportive housing programs improve
housing stability, there is no significant evidence that such programs
reliably increase employment among residents. (For the purposes of this
study, supportive housing is defined as housing services coupled with
additional services that include case management support. These include
place-based permanent supportive housing, scattered site permanent
supportive housing, and rapid rehousing. Conversely, Individual
Placement and Support (IPS), a proven method for supporting employment,
has not demonstrated effectiveness in stabilizing housing. SSA is
requesting clearance to collect data for the Supportive Housing and
Individual Placement and Support (SHIPS) study, under the
Interventional Cooperative Agreement Program (ICAP), to determine
whether participation in Individual Placement and Support (IPS)
improves the employment, income, health, and self-sufficiency of people
who are recently homeless and living in supportive housing. 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 Westat a cooperative agreement to conduct SHIPS. In
addition to SSA, Westat is partnering with three subrecipients for this
project: (1) People Assisting the Homeless (PATH), (2) the University
of Southern California (U.S.C.), and (3) the Research Foundation for
Mental Hygiene (RFMH) to implement the SHIPS study.
ICAP SHIPS Study Project Description
The SHIPS study is a randomized controlled trial (RCT) designed to
determine whether participation in Individual Placement and Support
(IPS) improves the employment, income, health, and self-sufficiency of
people who are recently homeless and living in supportive housing. The
SHIPS study will mark the first study testing the effectiveness of
implementing IPS in a supportive housing program. SSA hypothesizes that
combining the two successful evidence-based practices that separately
address homelessness and supported employment will yield a single
intervention that effectively addresses both. The intent of the SHIPS
study is to measure the effectiveness of evidence-based IPS compared to
the services provided by local WorkSource Centers broadly available to
jobseekers in the Los Angeles area, The housing case managers will
refer PATH clients interested in finding employment and will randomly
assign participants to one of two groups:
<bullet> IPS: The Individual Placement and Support (IPS) service
team will offers a range of structured services customized to
participants' personal needs, preferences, and challenges related to
disabilities and/or mental health conditions. IPS was specifically
designed as a supported employment model for individuals with serious
mental illness and includes standardized training and fidelity
requirements. Components of IPS that differ from those offered by
WorkSource Services include integrated treatment that incorporates
vocational and mental health services; benefits planning; and focus on
rapid job search without extensive training.
<bullet> WorkSource Centers: Under PATH's current housing model,
housing case managers refer PATH clients who express interest in
finding employment to local American Job Centers, known as WorkSource
Centers in Los Angeles. The WorkSource Centers are operated by the City
of Los Angeles Economic and Workforce Development Department, and
follow an employment services model that varies by WorkSource Center,
is not evidence-based or subject to fidelity monitoring, and is not
necessarily responsive to the individual needs of jobseekers with
disabilities.
The primary goals of the SHIPS study are:
<bullet> To measure the effects of IPS participation on employment,
income, health, and long-term self-sufficiency measured as a
combination of housing stability, income, and receipt of DI and SSI
benefits.
<bullet> To describe the study population in order to understand
both the generalizability of the study's findings and the potential
reasons for the observed effects.
<bullet> To explore the IPS implementation process to understand
barriers and facilitators to high-fidelity IPS implementation in the
supportive housing context.
Grantee researchers and SSA will use the information collected
during this study to (1) assess the short-term and long-term
effectiveness of the proposed intervention to improve employment,
income, and self-sufficiency; (2) understand the implementation
process; (3) provide detailed subgroup-specific data related to the
effect of IPS.
The respondents are residents in supportive housing units operated
by PATH who are unemployed and looking for employment.
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Average wait
Average Average time in office
Number of Frequency Number of burden per Estimated theoretical or for Total annual
Modality of completion participants of response responses response total annual hourly cost teleservice opportunity cost
(minutes) burden (hours) amount centers (dollars) ***
(dollars) * (minutes) **
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Study participants baseline 200 1 200 60 200 * $13.30 ** 23 *** $3,684
interview...................
Study participants quarterly 200 7 1,400 10 233 * 13.30 ** 102 *** 34,753
interviews..................
Study participants final 200 1 200 60 200 * 13.30 ** 102 *** 7,182
interviews..................
PATH Interviews: Staff....... 5 1 5 60 5 * 35.32 ** 23 *** 247
SHIPS Interviews: 5 1 5 60 5 * 13.30 ** 23 *** 93
participants................
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Totals................... 610 ........... ........... 250 643 .............. .............. *** 45,959
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* We based this figure on the average DI payments based on SSA's current FY 2025 data (<a href="https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/2024FactSheet.pdf">https://www.ssa.gov/legislation/2024FactSheet.pdf</a>), and survey
researchers (Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics).
** We based this figure on averaging both the average FY 2025 wait times for field offices and teleservice centers, as well as on the field office wait
times based on SSA's current management information data.
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*** 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 27, 2025.
Mark Steffensen,
General Counsel, Deputy Commissioner for Law and Policy, Social
Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 2025-12294 Filed 7-1-25; 8:45 am]
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