Justification for Non-Substantive Changes - 0566

Justification for Non-Substantive Changes for Form SSA-3288

Privacy and Disclosure of Official Records and Information;

Availability of Information and Records to the Public;

20 CFR 401 and 402

OMB No. 0960-0566

Background

The SSN Printout displays the name and SSN assigned to that individual. An individual may occasionally request a SSN Printout for verification of their SSN. Social Security Administration (SSA) field offices (FOs) only provide an SSN Printout when all of the following criteria are met:

• disaster procedures have been invoked;

• the number holder’s (NH’s) residence is in the area affected by the disaster; and

• the NH is the individual requesting the SSN Printout.

When the FO employee determines an SSN Printout can be provided, they generate the printout from the Customer Information Control System (CICS) mainframe NUMIDENT query application.

We do not consider an SSN Printout as official verification of an SSN; we only consider the SSN card as official verification.

Revisions to the Collection Instrument:

• Change # 1: We are removing CICS-generated internal record-keeping information from the top of the SSN Printout.

Justification #1: The SSN Printout does not have any security features, and the internal record-keeping information is of no use to the public or SSA employees.

SSA will implement the change to the SSA-3288 upon OMB approval.

This action does not affect the public reporting burden.