{"description":"Documents matching 'security income recipients correct benefit'","count":4387,"total_pages":50,"next_page_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents?conditions%5Bterm%5D=security+income+recipients+correct+benefit&format=json&page=2","results":[{"title":"Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program","type":"Notice","abstract":"In accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act, as amended, this notice announces a re-establishment of a matching program with the Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Fiscal Service), Department of the Treasury (Treasury). Under this matching program, Fiscal Service, Treasury will disclose savings security data to SSA. SSA will use the data to determine continued eligibility for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) applicants and recipients, or the correct benefit amount for recipients and deemors who either did not report or who incorrectly reported their ownership of savings securities.","document_number":"2026-10059","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/20/2026-10059/privacy-act-of-1974-matching-program","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-05-20/pdf/2026-10059.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10059.pdf?1779194709","publication_date":"2026-05-20","agencies":[{"raw_name":"Social Security Administration","name":"Social Security Administration","id":470,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/social-security-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/470","parent_id":null,"slug":"social-security-administration"}],"excerpts":"(Fiscal Service), Department of the Treasury (Treasury). Under this matching program, Fiscal Service, Treasury will disclose savings <span class=\"match\">security</span> data to SSA. SSA will use the data to determine continued eligibility for Supplemental <span class=\"match\">Security</span> <span class=\"match\">Income</span> (SSI) applicants and <span class=\"match\">recipients</span>, or the <span class=\"match\">correct</span> <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> amount for <span class=\"match\">recipients</span> and deemors who either did not report or who incorrectly reported their ownership of savings <span class=\"match\">securities</span>. \n \n \n DATES: \n The deadline to submit comments on the proposed matching program is June 22, 2026. \n The matching program will be"},{"title":"Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program","type":"Notice","abstract":"In accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act, as amended, this notice announces a new matching program with the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB). Under this matching program, RRB, as the source agency, will disclose RRB annuity payment data to SSA, the recipient agency. SSA will use the information to verify Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Special Veterans Benefits (SVB) eligibility and benefit payment amounts. SSA will also record the railroad annuity amounts RRB paid to SSI and SVB recipients in the Supplemental Security Income Record (SSR).","document_number":"2025-20489","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/21/2025-20489/privacy-act-of-1974-matching-program","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-21/pdf/2025-20489.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-20489.pdf?1763646310","publication_date":"2025-11-21","agencies":[{"raw_name":"Social Security Administration","name":"Social Security Administration","id":470,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/social-security-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/470","parent_id":null,"slug":"social-security-administration"}],"excerpts":"Retirement Board (RRB). Under this matching program, RRB, as the source agency, will disclose RRB annuity payment data to SSA, the <span class=\"match\">recipient</span> agency. SSA will use the information to verify Supplemental <span class=\"match\">Security</span> <span class=\"match\">Income</span> (SSI) and Special Veterans <span class=\"match\">Benefits</span> (SVB) eligibility and <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> payment amounts. SSA will also record the railroad annuity amounts RRB paid to SSI and SVB <span class=\"match\">recipients</span> in the Supplemental <span class=\"match\">Security</span> <span class=\"match\">Income</span> Record (SSR). \n \n \n DATES: \n The deadline to submit comments on the proposed matching program is no later than December 22, 2025. "},{"title":"Request for Information: Use and Conservation of Social Security Benefits and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Payments That Representative Payees Receive for Beneficiaries Residing in Foster Care","type":"Notice","abstract":"The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration for Children, Youth, and Families (ACYF), Children's Bureau (CB) oversees the child welfare system, which is administered by State, local, and Tribal child welfare agencies nationwide. The Social Security Administration (SSA) administers the Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs. This request for information (RFI) seeks public input to inform how Federal agencies can support broader State and local efforts to improve the outcomes of children in the child welfare system who are eligible for Federal benefits. The input we receive will inform our deliberations about potential policy changes.","document_number":"2024-25462","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/11/01/2024-25462/request-for-information-use-and-conservation-of-social-security-benefits-and-supplemental-security","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-11-01/pdf/2024-25462.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-25462.pdf?1730378728","publication_date":"2024-11-01","agencies":[{"raw_name":"Social Security Administration","name":"Social Security Administration","id":470,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/social-security-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/470","parent_id":null,"slug":"social-security-administration"},{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","name":"Health and Human Services Department","id":221,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/health-and-human-services-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/221","parent_id":null,"slug":"health-and-human-services-department"},{"raw_name":"Administration for Children and Families","name":"Children and Families Administration","id":49,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/children-and-families-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/49","parent_id":221,"slug":"children-and-families-administration"}],"excerpts":"eligibility or filing for <span class=\"match\">benefits</span>, call our national toll-free number, 1-800-772-1213 or TTY 1-800-325-0778, or visit our internet site, Social <span class=\"match\">Security</span> Online, at \n http://www.socialsecurity.gov. \n \n \n \n \n SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: \n Some children in foster care are eligible for various types of Federal <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> payments. Among the Federal payments that may be available to children in foster care are Social <span class=\"match\">Security</span> <span class=\"match\">benefits</span> and Supplemental <span class=\"match\">Security</span> <span class=\"match\">Income</span> (SSI) payments. Because of the importance of these Federal <span class=\"match\">benefits</span> received by members of"},{"title":"Tribal General Welfare Benefits","type":"Rule","abstract":"This document contains final regulations regarding the exclusion from gross income of certain Tribal general welfare benefits. The regulations address the requirements that apply to determine whether the benefits an Indian Tribal government program provides qualify as Tribal general welfare benefits. These regulations affect Indian Tribal governments, agencies or instrumentalities of such governments, Federally recognized Tribes, members of such Tribes, such members' spouses and dependents, and other Tribal program participants.","document_number":"2025-22873","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/16/2025-22873/tribal-general-welfare-benefits","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-16/pdf/2025-22873.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22873.pdf?1765806314","publication_date":"2025-12-16","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY","name":"Treasury Department","id":497,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/treasury-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/497","parent_id":null,"slug":"treasury-department"},{"raw_name":"Internal Revenue Service","name":"Internal Revenue Service","id":254,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/internal-revenue-service","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/254","parent_id":497,"slug":"internal-revenue-service"}],"excerpts":"which the IRS conclusively presumed the individual need requirement of the administrative general welfare exclusion is met for <span class=\"match\">benefits</span> provided under Indian Tribal government programs that meet the safe harbor requirements. In addition, the revenue procedure provided that the IRS will not assert that <span class=\"match\">recipients</span> of <span class=\"match\">benefits</span> under a safe harbor must include the value of those <span class=\"match\">benefits</span> in gross <span class=\"match\">income</span> or that the <span class=\"match\">benefits</span> are subject to the information reporting \n \n requirements of section 6041 of the Code.\n \n Following the enactment of section 139E"},{"title":"Lifeline and Link Up Reform and Modernization; Bridging the Digital Divide for Low-Income Consumers; Telecommunications Carriers Eligible for Universal Service Support; Affordable Connectivity Program; Emergency Broadband Benefit Program","type":"Proposed Rule","abstract":"In this document, the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) seeks to ensure that Lifeline services are used to benefit and support eligible low-income Americans, that the program's funding is protected from waste, fraud, and abuse, and that service providers are in compliance with Commission rules. The Commission also seeks to update and streamline Lifeline and related rules.","document_number":"2026-06531","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/04/03/2026-06531/lifeline-and-link-up-reform-and-modernization-bridging-the-digital-divide-for-low-income-consumers","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-04-03/pdf/2026-06531.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-06531.pdf?1775133915","publication_date":"2026-04-03","agencies":[{"raw_name":"FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION","name":"Federal Communications Commission","id":161,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/federal-communications-commission","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/161","parent_id":null,"slug":"federal-communications-commission"}],"excerpts":"comments on its tentative conclusion that the Lifeline <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> qualifies as a “means-tested public <span class=\"match\">benefit</span>” under the PRWORA. As noted, the PRWORA does not define “means-tested public <span class=\"match\">benefit</span>,” so the Commission applies the guidance from OLC that a means-tested public <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> “is best understood as any federal public <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> for which the eligibility of an individual, household, or family eligibility unit for <span class=\"match\">benefits</span>, or the amount of such <span class=\"match\">benefits</span>, or both, are determined on the basis of the <span class=\"match\">income</span>, resources, or financial need of the individual, household"},{"title":"Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program","type":"Notice","abstract":"In accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act, as amended, this notice announces a new matching program with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Under this matching program, OPM will disclose civil service benefit and payment data to SSA. SSA will use the match results under this agreement to meet its civil service benefit offset obligations. SSA is legally required to offset Disability Insurance (DI) benefits under the Old-Age, Survivors, Disability Insurance program, and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits and Special Veterans' Benefits (SVB), by a percentage of the benefit recipients' Federal Government retirement or disability benefits.","document_number":"2025-13409","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/07/17/2025-13409/privacy-act-of-1974-matching-program","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-07-17/pdf/2025-13409.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-13409.pdf?1752669914","publication_date":"2025-07-17","agencies":[{"raw_name":"Social Security Administration","name":"Social Security Administration","id":470,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/social-security-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/470","parent_id":null,"slug":"social-security-administration"}],"excerpts":"matching program, OPM will disclose civil service <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> and payment data to SSA. SSA will use the match results under this agreement to meet its civil service <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> offset obligations. SSA is legally required to offset Disability Insurance (DI) <span class=\"match\">benefits</span> under the Old-Age, Survivors, Disability Insurance program, and Supplemental <span class=\"match\">Security</span> <span class=\"match\">Income</span> (SSI) <span class=\"match\">benefits</span> and Special Veterans' <span class=\"match\">Benefits</span> (SVB), by a percentage of the <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> <span class=\"match\">recipients</span>' Federal Government retirement or disability <span class=\"match\">benefits</span>. \n \n \n DATES: \n Submit comments on the proposed matching"},{"title":"Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program","type":"Notice","abstract":"In accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act, as amended, this notice announces a re-establishment of a matching program with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA). Under this matching program, VA will provide SSA with compensation and pension payment data necessary to administer Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Special Veterans Benefits (SVB) and to fulfill SSA's obligations for the Medicare Savings Program (MSP) and Medicare Prescription Drug (Medicare Part D) subsidy (Extra Help).","document_number":"2026-06011","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/03/27/2026-06011/privacy-act-of-1974-matching-program","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-03-27/pdf/2026-06011.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-06011.pdf?1774529116","publication_date":"2026-03-27","agencies":[{"raw_name":"Social Security Administration","name":"Social Security Administration","id":470,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/social-security-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/470","parent_id":null,"slug":"social-security-administration"}],"excerpts":"with the provisions of the Privacy Act, as amended, this notice announces a re-establishment of a matching program with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans <span class=\"match\">Benefits</span> Administration (VBA). Under this matching program, VA will provide SSA with compensation and pension payment data necessary to administer Supplemental <span class=\"match\">Security</span> <span class=\"match\">Income</span> (SSI) and Special Veterans <span class=\"match\">Benefits</span> (SVB) and to fulfill SSA's obligations for the Medicare Savings Program (MSP) and Medicare Prescription Drug (Medicare Part D) subsidy (Extra Help). \n \n \n DATES: \n The deadline"},{"title":"Improving Transparency Into Pharmacy Benefit Manager Fee Disclosure","type":"Proposed Rule","abstract":"The Department is proposing a regulation that would require providers of pharmacy benefit management services and affiliated providers of brokerage and consulting services to disclose information about their compensation to fiduciaries of self-insured group health plans subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). These disclosures are needed so that fiduciaries can assess the reasonableness of the contracts or arrangements with these service providers, including the reasonableness of the service providers' compensation. These disclosure requirements would apply for purposes of ERISA's statutory prohibited transaction exemption for services arrangements. This proposal implements section 12 of President Trump's Executive Order 14273, Lowering Drug Prices by Once Again Putting Americans First, which instructs the Department to propose regulations to improve employer health plan transparency into the direct and indirect compensation received by pharmacy benefit managers. If finalized, this regulation would affect sponsors and other fiduciaries of self-insured group health plans and certain service providers to such plans.","document_number":"2026-01907","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/01/30/2026-01907/improving-transparency-into-pharmacy-benefit-manager-fee-disclosure","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-01-30/pdf/2026-01907.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-01907.pdf?1769721310","publication_date":"2026-01-30","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF LABOR","name":"Labor Department","id":271,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/labor-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/271","parent_id":null,"slug":"labor-department"},{"raw_name":"Employee Benefits Security Administration","name":"Employee Benefits Security Administration","id":131,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/employee-benefits-security-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/131","parent_id":271,"slug":"employee-benefits-security-administration"}],"excerpts":"Pharmacy <span class=\"match\">Benefits</span> Consulting, \n https://www.milliman.com/en/services/pharmacy-<span class=\"match\">benefits</span>-consulting. \n \n \n \n \n 45 \n  Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension <span class=\"match\">Benefit</span> Plans, \n PBM Compensation and Fee Disclosure \n at 3 (November 2014), \n https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ebsa/pdf_files/2014-pbm-compensation-and-fee-disclosure.pdf.; \n AJ Ally, Patrick Cambel, Mark Gruenhaupt, &amp; Kristin Niakan, \n Report of Pharmacy <span class=\"match\">Benefit</span> Manager Practices \n at 34 (2025), \n https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/ohs/reports/ohs-report-of-pharmacy-<span class=\"match\">benefit</span>-manag"},{"title":"Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records","type":"Notice","abstract":"RRB-1, Social Security Benefit Vouchering System is used to administer, certify, and voucher Social Security benefit payments.","document_number":"2025-22051","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/05/2025-22051/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-05/pdf/2025-22051.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22051.pdf?1764855923","publication_date":"2025-12-05","agencies":[{"raw_name":"RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD","name":"Railroad Retirement Board","id":444,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/railroad-retirement-board","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/444","parent_id":null,"slug":"railroad-retirement-board"}],"excerpts":"railroad retirement or Social <span class=\"match\">Security</span> <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> checks. \n l. Beneficiary identifying information, effective date, <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> rates, and months paid may be furnished to the Veterans <span class=\"match\">Benefits</span> Administration for the purpose of assisting that agency in determining eligibility for <span class=\"match\">benefits</span> or verifying continued entitlement to and the <span class=\"match\">correct</span> amount of <span class=\"match\">benefits</span> payable under programs which it administers. \n m. <span class=\"match\">Benefit</span> rates and effective dates may be disclosed to the Social <span class=\"match\">Security</span> Administration, Bureau of Supplemental <span class=\"match\">Security</span> <span class=\"match\">Income</span>, and to federal, state and"},{"title":"Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program","type":"Notice","abstract":"In accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act, as amended, this notice announces a new matching program with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Under this matching program, the CMS will disclose to the Social Security Administration (SSA) certain individuals' admission and discharge information for care received in a nursing care facility. Nursing care facility, for purposes of this agreement, means certain facilities referenced in CMS' Long Term Care-Minimum Data Set (LTC/MDS), System Number 09-70-0528, as defined below. SSA will use this information to administer the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program efficiently and to identify Special Veterans' Benefits (SVB) beneficiaries who are no longer residing outside of the United States.","document_number":"2026-09075","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/07/2026-09075/privacy-act-of-1974-matching-program","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-05-07/pdf/2026-09075.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-09075.pdf?1778071528","publication_date":"2026-05-07","agencies":[{"raw_name":"Social Security Administration","name":"Social Security Administration","id":470,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/social-security-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/470","parent_id":null,"slug":"social-security-administration"}],"excerpts":"program, the CMS will disclose to the Social <span class=\"match\">Security</span> Administration (SSA) certain individuals' admission and discharge information for care received in a nursing care facility. Nursing care facility, for purposes of this agreement, means certain facilities referenced in CMS' Long Term Care-Minimum Data Set (LTC/MDS), System Number 09-70-0528, as defined below. SSA will use this information to administer the Supplemental <span class=\"match\">Security</span> <span class=\"match\">Income</span> (SSI) program efficiently and to identify Special Veterans' <span class=\"match\">Benefits</span> (SVB) beneficiaries who are no longer residing"},{"title":"Exemption for Certain Prohibited Transactions Involving Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta) Located in Menlo Park, CA","type":"Notice","abstract":"This document provides notice of an individual exemption from certain prohibited transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The exemption permits Prudential Life Insurance Company of America (Prudential) to reinsure the Meta Platforms Inc. Health and Welfare Benefit Plan (Plan)'s group term life insurance benefits, accidental death and dismemberment benefits, survivor income benefits, supplemental employee term coverage, dependent term life insurance (spouse or domestic partner), dependent term life insurance (children) (the Reinsured Benefits), by entering into a reinsurance contract with Ekahi Insurance Company, LLC (Ekahi), an insurance company that is owned by Meta Platforms, Inc. (Meta or the Applicant). This arrangement is hereinafter referred to as the \"Reinsurance Arrangement.\"","document_number":"2025-12641","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/07/08/2025-12641/exemption-for-certain-prohibited-transactions-involving-meta-platforms-inc-meta-located-in-menlo","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-07-08/pdf/2025-12641.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-12641.pdf?1751892313","publication_date":"2025-07-08","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF LABOR","name":"Labor Department","id":271,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/labor-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/271","parent_id":null,"slug":"labor-department"},{"raw_name":"Employee Benefits Security Administration","name":"Employee Benefits Security Administration","id":131,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/employee-benefits-security-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/131","parent_id":271,"slug":"employee-benefits-security-administration"}],"excerpts":"transaction restrictions of the Employee Retirement <span class=\"match\">Income</span> <span class=\"match\">Security</span> Act of 1974 (ERISA). The exemption permits Prudential Life Insurance Company of America (Prudential) to reinsure the Meta Platforms Inc. Health and Welfare <span class=\"match\">Benefit</span> Plan (Plan)'s group term life insurance <span class=\"match\">benefits</span>, accidental death and dismemberment <span class=\"match\">benefits</span>, survivor <span class=\"match\">income</span> <span class=\"match\">benefits</span>, supplemental employee term coverage, dependent term life insurance (spouse or domestic partner), dependent term life insurance (children) (the Reinsured <span class=\"match\">Benefits</span>), by entering into a reinsurance contract with"},{"title":"Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA); Interpretation of “Federal Public Benefit”","type":"Notice","abstract":"This notice sets forth the interpretation that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) uses for the term \"Federal public benefit\" as used in Title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), Public Law 104-193, 8 U.S.C. 1611. In doing so, this notice revises the interpretation of the term set forth in a prior notice, 63 FR 41658 (Aug. 4, 1998) (\"the 1998 HHS PRWORA Notice\" or \"1998 Notice\"). This notice also describes and preliminarily identifies the HHS programs that provide \"Federal public benefits\" within the scope of PRWORA, including HHS programs that were not listed in the 1998 HHS PRWORA Notice.","document_number":"2025-13118","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/07/14/2025-13118/personal-responsibility-and-work-opportunity-reconciliation-act-of-1996-prwora-interpretation-of","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-07-14/pdf/2025-13118.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-13118.pdf?1752178509","publication_date":"2025-07-14","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","name":"Health and Human Services Department","id":221,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/health-and-human-services-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/221","parent_id":null,"slug":"health-and-human-services-department"},{"raw_name":"Office of the Secretary"}],"excerpts":"“appropriated funds of the United States,” then it is a “Federal public <span class=\"match\">benefit</span>.” Similarly, if HHS “provide[s]” the “retirement, welfare, health, disability, public or assisted housing, postsecondary education, food assistance, unemployment <span class=\"match\">benefit</span>, or any other similar <span class=\"match\">benefit</span>,” or such “<span class=\"match\">benefit</span>” is “provided by” “appropriated funds of the United States,” then such <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> is a “Federal public <span class=\"match\">benefit</span>,” as long as the <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> is “provided to” one of three types of <span class=\"match\">recipients</span>: (i) “an individual,” (ii) a “household,” or (iii) a “family eligibility"},{"title":"Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program","type":"Notice","abstract":"In accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act, as amended, this notice announces a new matching program with the Department of Labor (DOL). Under this matching program, DOL will disclose the DOL-administered Part B Black Lung (BL) benefit data to SSA. SSA will match DOL's Part B BL data with SSA's records of persons receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) to verify that Part B BL beneficiaries are receiving the correct amount of SSI payments.","document_number":"2024-22770","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/10/03/2024-22770/privacy-act-of-1974-matching-program","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-10-03/pdf/2024-22770.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-22770.pdf?1727873125","publication_date":"2024-10-03","agencies":[{"raw_name":"Social Security Administration","name":"Social Security Administration","id":470,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/social-security-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/470","parent_id":null,"slug":"social-security-administration"}],"excerpts":"amount, and effective date of the current <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> amount. SSA will determine which of the <span class=\"match\">recipients</span> are receiving SSI payments and match the DOL data against the SSN, type of action code, and <span class=\"match\">income</span> type for those <span class=\"match\">recipients</span> in SSA's Supplemental <span class=\"match\">Security</span> <span class=\"match\">Income</span> Record and Special Veterans <span class=\"match\">Benefits</span> (SSR/SVB) system of records. \n System(s) of Records \n SSA will match the DOL extract file against the SSR/SVB (60-0103) system of records, last fully published on January 11, 2006 (71 FR 1830), as amended on December 10, 2007 (72 FR 69723), July 3, 2018"},{"title":"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability","type":"Rule","abstract":"This final rule revises standards relating to denial of coverage for failure to pay past-due premium; excludes Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients from the definition of \"lawfully present;\" establishes the evidentiary standard HHS uses to assess an agent's, broker's, or web-broker's potential noncompliance; revises the Exchange automatic reenrollment hierarchy; revises standards related to the annual open enrollment period and special enrollment periods; revises standards relating to failure to file and reconcile, income eligibility verifications for premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions, annual eligibility redeterminations, de minimis thresholds for the actuarial value for plans subject to essential health benefits (EHB) requirements, and income-based cost-sharing reduction plan variations. This final rule also revises the premium adjustment percentage methodology and prohibits issuers of coverage subject to EHB requirements from providing coverage for specified sex-trait modification procedures as an EHB.","document_number":"2025-11606","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/25/2025-11606/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-marketplace-integrity-and-affordability","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-25/pdf/2025-11606.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-11606.pdf?1750709712","publication_date":"2025-06-25","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","name":"Health and Human Services Department","id":221,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/health-and-human-services-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/221","parent_id":null,"slug":"health-and-human-services-department"}],"excerpts":"with regard to DACA <span class=\"match\">recipients</span>' eligibility for certain Social <span class=\"match\">Security</span> <span class=\"match\">benefits</span>.\n \n \n In the DACA Final Rule (89 FR 39395), HHS also posited that it saw “no statutory mandate to distinguish between <span class=\"match\">recipients</span> of deferred action under the DACA policy and other deferred action <span class=\"match\">recipients</span>.” The final rule noted that Federal agencies have considered deferred action <span class=\"match\">recipients</span> to be “lawfully present” for purposes of certain Social <span class=\"match\">Security</span> <span class=\"match\">benefits</span> since 1996.\n 38 \n \n However, DACA <span class=\"match\">recipients</span>, unlike other deferred action <span class=\"match\">recipients</span>, received deferred"},{"title":"Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program","type":"Notice","abstract":"In accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act, as amended, this notice announces a new matching program with the United States Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Under this matching program, the IRS will disclose IRS return information to SSA for use in verifying eligibility for, and the correct amount of, benefits to qualified aged, blind, and disabled individuals.","document_number":"2025-21082","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/25/2025-21082/privacy-act-of-1974-matching-program","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-25/pdf/2025-21082.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-21082.pdf?1763991948","publication_date":"2025-11-25","agencies":[{"raw_name":"Social Security Administration","name":"Social Security Administration","id":470,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/social-security-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/470","parent_id":null,"slug":"social-security-administration"}],"excerpts":"6103(l)(7)) authorizes IRS to disclose return information with respect to unearned <span class=\"match\">income</span> to Federal, State, or local agencies administering certain federally-assisted <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> programs under the Social <span class=\"match\">Security</span> Act (Act). \n Section 1631(e)(1)(B) of the Act (42 U.S.C. 1383(e)(1)(B)) requires verification of Supplemental <span class=\"match\">Security</span> <span class=\"match\">Income</span> eligibility and <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> amounts with independent or collateral sources. This section of the Act provides that the “Commissioner of Social <span class=\"match\">Security</span> shall, as may be necessary, request and utilize information available pursuant"},{"title":"Tribal General Welfare Benefits","type":"Proposed Rule","abstract":"This document contains proposed regulations regarding the exclusion from gross income of certain Tribal general welfare benefits. The proposed regulations address the requirements that would apply to determine whether the benefits that an Indian Tribal government program provides qualify as Tribal general welfare benefits. These proposed regulations would affect Indian Tribal governments, agencies or instrumentalities of such governments, Federally-recognized Tribes, members of such Tribes, such members' spouses and dependents, and other Tribal program participants. This document also requests comments on certain provisions and provides a notice of a public hearing on the proposed regulations that will be in addition to Tribal consultation on the proposed regulations.","document_number":"2024-20826","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/09/17/2024-20826/tribal-general-welfare-benefits","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-09-17/pdf/2024-20826.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-20826.pdf?1726231523","publication_date":"2024-09-17","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY","name":"Treasury Department","id":497,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/treasury-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/497","parent_id":null,"slug":"treasury-department"},{"raw_name":"Internal Revenue Service","name":"Internal Revenue Service","id":254,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/internal-revenue-service","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/254","parent_id":497,"slug":"internal-revenue-service"}],"excerpts":"whether a <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> received under the program is excludable from gross <span class=\"match\">income</span> under section 139E. In particular, <span class=\"match\">recipients</span> of Tribal general welfare <span class=\"match\">benefits</span> who are contacted by the IRS will need to substantiate that the <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> is excludable from gross <span class=\"match\">income</span> under section 139E and may not have any written documentation in their possession to do so. If the Indian Tribal government has documented in writing the specific guidelines of the program, the individual <span class=\"match\">recipient</span> of the <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> may use the written documentation to substantiate that the benefit"},{"title":"Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability","type":"Proposed Rule","abstract":"This proposed rule would revise standards relating to past-due premium payments; exclude Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients from the definition of \"lawfully present\"; the evidentiary standard HHS uses to assess an agent's, broker's, or web-broker's potential noncompliance; failure to file and reconcile; income eligibility verifications for premium tax credits and cost-sharing reductions; annual eligibility redetermination; the automatic reenrollment hierarchy; the annual open enrollment period; special enrollment periods; de minimis thresholds for the actuarial value for plans subject to essential health benefits (EHB) requirements and for income-based cost-sharing reduction plan variations; and the premium adjustment percentage methodology; and prohibit issuers of coverage subject to EHB requirements from providing coverage for sex-trait modification as an EHB.","document_number":"2025-04083","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/03/19/2025-04083/patient-protection-and-affordable-care-act-marketplace-integrity-and-affordability","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-03-19/pdf/2025-04083.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-04083.pdf?1741810509","publication_date":"2025-03-19","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES","name":"Health and Human Services Department","id":221,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/health-and-human-services-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/221","parent_id":null,"slug":"health-and-human-services-department"}],"excerpts":"regard to DACA <span class=\"match\">recipients</span>' eligibility for certain Social <span class=\"match\">Security</span> <span class=\"match\">benefits</span>. \n \n In the DACA Final Rule (89 FR 39395), HHS also posited that it saw “no statutory mandate to distinguish between <span class=\"match\">recipients</span> of deferred action under the DACA policy and other deferred action <span class=\"match\">recipients</span>.” The final rule noted that Federal agencies have long considered deferred action <span class=\"match\">recipients</span> to be “lawfully present” for purposes of certain Social <span class=\"match\">Security</span> <span class=\"match\">benefits</span> since 1996.\n 35 \n \n However, DACA <span class=\"match\">recipients</span>, unlike other deferred action-<span class=\"match\">recipients</span>, received deferred"},{"title":"Designation of the Social Security Administration's Numerical Identification System (Numident) Into Do Not Pay","type":"Notice","abstract":"Pursuant to the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA) (31 U.S.C. 3351 et seq.), the U.S. Department of Treasury (Treasury) operates the Do Not Pay Working System--a centralized portal through which agencies can search multiple databases to verify payment or award eligibility. Treasury, under a delegation from the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), is authorized to designate new databases for inclusion in the Do Not Pay Working System. Treasury is issuing this Notice of Proposed Designation to provide the public an opportunity to comment on the proposed designation of the Social Security Administration's Numerical Identification System (Numident) to the Do Not Pay Working System.","document_number":"2026-02630","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/02/10/2026-02630/designation-of-the-social-security-administrations-numerical-identification-system-numident-into-do","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-02-10/pdf/2026-02630.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-02630.pdf?1770644719","publication_date":"2026-02-10","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY","name":"Treasury Department","id":497,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/treasury-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/497","parent_id":null,"slug":"treasury-department"}],"excerpts":"awards under health or <span class=\"match\">income</span> maintenance programs (\n e.g., \n Social <span class=\"match\">Security</span> retirement payments, Medicare, and Medicaid). The addition of Numident to the Do Not Pay Working System will strengthen the integrity of Federal funds disbursements in health or <span class=\"match\">income</span> maintenance programs, including in federally-funded state-administered programs.\n \n \n Do Not Pay Working System Privacy, <span class=\"match\">Security</span>, and Legal Compliance: \n Treasury considers information <span class=\"match\">security</span>, privacy, records management, public transparency, and supply chain <span class=\"match\">security</span> matters for all resource"},{"title":"Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records","type":"Notice","abstract":"In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, the U.S. Department of Education (Department) publishes this notice of a modified system of records entitled the \"National Student Loan Data System (NSLDS)\" (18-11-06). The information contained in this system is maintained for various purposes relating to aid applicants and recipients. These include determining aid applicants' and recipients' eligibility for Federal student financial assistance under the programs authorized by title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended (HEA); assisting institutions of higher education participating in and administering the title IV, HEA programs by verifying the eligibility of aid recipients for, and tracking, Federal student loans; and assisting the Department's oversight and administration of the title IV, HEA programs, including evaluating their effectiveness.","document_number":"2026-07817","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/04/22/2026-07817/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-04-22/pdf/2026-07817.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-07817.pdf?1776775514","publication_date":"2026-04-22","agencies":[{"raw_name":"DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION","name":"Education Department","id":126,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/education-department","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/126","parent_id":null,"slug":"education-department"}],"excerpts":"loans made pursuant to specific <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> programs. At times, the system of records notice may refer by name to a specific <span class=\"match\">benefit</span> program, such as the “Public Service Loan Forgiveness” program; such specific references are not intended to exclude any such program <span class=\"match\">benefits</span> from more general references to loan discharges.\n \n (1) to determine the eligibility of aid applicants and <span class=\"match\">recipients</span> for Federal student financial aid programs authorized by title IV of the HEA; \n (2) to report changes in aid applicant and <span class=\"match\">recipient</span> enrollment status and enrollment"},{"title":"Expand the Definition of a Public Assistance Household","type":"Rule","abstract":"We are finalizing our proposed rule to expand the definition of a public assistance (PA) household for purposes of our programs, particularly the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, to include the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) as an additional means-tested public income-maintenance (PIM) program. We are also revising the definition of a PA household from a household in which every member receives some kind of PIM payment to a household that has both an SSI applicant or recipient, and at least one other household member who receives one or more of the listed PIM payments (the any other definition). If determined to be living in a PA household, inside in-kind support and maintenance (ISM) would no longer need to be developed. The final rule will decrease the number of SSI applicants and recipients charged with ISM from others within their household. In addition, we expect this rule to decrease the amount of income we would deem to SSI applicants and recipients because we will no longer deem as income from ineligible spouses and parents who live in the same household: the value of the SNAP benefits that they receive; any income that was counted or excluded in figuring the amount of that payment; or any income that was used to determine the amount of SNAP benefits to someone else. These policy changes reduce administrative burden for low-income households and SSA.","document_number":"2024-08364","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/04/19/2024-08364/expand-the-definition-of-a-public-assistance-household","pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-04-19/pdf/2024-08364.pdf","public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-08364.pdf?1713444344","publication_date":"2024-04-19","agencies":[{"raw_name":"Social Security Administration","name":"Social Security Administration","id":470,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/social-security-administration","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/470","parent_id":null,"slug":"social-security-administration"}],"excerpts":"416.1148.\n \n \n Deeming <span class=\"match\">Income</span> \n \n In addition to counting ISM that an applicant or <span class=\"match\">recipient</span> receives, the SSI program deems <span class=\"match\">income</span> of certain individuals to the SSI applicant or <span class=\"match\">recipient</span>.\n 11 \n \n “Deeming” is the process of considering a portion of another person's <span class=\"match\">income</span> to be the <span class=\"match\">income</span> of an SSI applicant or <span class=\"match\">recipient</span>.\n 12 \n \n When our deeming rules apply, it does not matter whether the other person's <span class=\"match\">income</span> is actually available to the applicant or <span class=\"match\">recipient</span>.\n 13 \n \n In determining an SSI applicant's or <span class=\"match\">recipient's</span> eligibility and payment"}]}