Notice2025-20652
Agency Information Collection Activities: Comment Request
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Published
November 24, 2025
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Social Security Administration
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 224 (Monday, November 24, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53044-53045]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-20652]
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SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
[Docket No: SSA-2025-0651]
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 collection.
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 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#db9489f589beabb4a9afa8f598b7bebaa9bab5b8be9ba8a8baf5bcb4ad"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b0ffe29ee2d5c0dfc2c4c39ef3dcd5d1c2d1ded3d5f0c3c3d19ed7dfc6">[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-2025-0651] 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 December 24, 2025. Individuals can obtain copies of the
OMB clearance package by writing to the <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#6d223f433f081d021f191e432e01080c1f0c030e082d1e1e0c430a021b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="80cfd2aed2e5f0eff2f4f3aec3ece5e1f2e1eee3e5c0f3f3e1aee7eff6">[email protected]</span></a>.
Fee Agreement for Representation before the Social Security
Administration--0960-0810. The Social Security Act requires individuals
who represent a claimant before the agency and want to receive a fee
for their services to obtain SSA's authorization of the fee. One way to
obtain the authorization is to submit the fee agreement to the agency
either in writing or through using Form SSA-1693, Fee Agreement for
Representation before the Social Security Administration. Since
representatives currently use fee agreements which vary in length,
content, and complexity, submission of a free-form fee agreement may
cause delays in SSA's review time. SSA encourages respondents to use
Form SSA-1693 to submit the information either using the paper form or
the electronically submittable e1693 through SSA's website. SSA uses
the information from the SSA-1693 to review the request and authorize
any fee to representatives who seek to charge and collect a fee from a
claimant. The respondents are the representatives who help claimants
through the application process, and the claimants who they represent.
Note: We are revising the burden for this information
collection, and updating the Privacy Act Statement to comply with
current legal requirements.
Type of Request: Revision of an OMB-approved information
collection.
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Average
Average burden Estimated theoretical Average wait Total annual
Modality of completion Number of Frequency of per response total annual hourly cost time in field opportunity
respondents response (minutes) burden (hours) amount office cost (dollars)
(dollars) * (minutes) ** ***
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SSA-1693 (paper)........................ 4,225 1 12 845 * $60.26 ** 16 *** $118,833
e1693................................... 1,745 1 13 378 * 60.26 .............. *** 22,778
Written Agreements on Representative's 1,575,773 1 20 525,257 * 60.26 .............. *** 31,651,987
Stationary.............................
Totals.............................. 1,581,743 .............. .............. 526,480 .............. .............. *** 31,793,598
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* We based this figure on the averaged total of the average Lawyer's Legal Services wages, as reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics data, and the
average U.S. worker's hourly wages, as reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics data (Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics).
** We based this figure on the average FY 2026 wait times for field offices (16 minutes), based on SSA's current management information data. This
figure reflects the data posted on our public facing website (800 number performance <radical> SSA) on the date we drafted this notice. As the figures
fluctuate daily, the wait times may be different on the publication date of this notice. While we are including this theoretical cost, respondents
typically choose to mail or fax the paper form rather than deliver the form in person to a field office.
** 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
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Mark Steffensen,
General Counsel, Deputy Commissioner for Law and Policy, Social
Security Administration.
[FR Doc. 2025-20652 Filed 11-21-25; 8:45 am]
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