Development of Participation in a Vocational Rehabilitation or Similar Program

SSA will insert the following revised Privacy Act Statement into the form as soon as possible:

Privacy Act Statement
Collection and Use of Personal Information

Sections 225(b) and 1631 of the Social Security Act, as amended, allow us to collect this information. Furnishing us this information is voluntary. However, failing to provide all or part of the information may prevent us from determining the beneficiary’s continued eligibility for benefits.

We will use the information you provide to determine if the beneficiary who is enrolled in a vocational rehabilitation or other job-training program is eligible for continuing benefits, even if their disability has ceased. We may also share the information for the following purposes, called routine uses:

• To the Rehabilitation Service Administration (RSA) for use in its program studies and development of enhancements for, State vocational rehabilitation programs to which

applicants or beneficiaries under Titles II and/or XVI of the Social Security Act

may be referred. Data released to RSA will not include any personally identifying information such as names or Social Security numbers.

• To student volunteers, individuals working under a personal services contract, and other workers who technically do not have the status of Federal employees, when they are performing work for the Social Security Administration (SSA), as authorized by law, and they need access to personally identifiable information in SSA records in order to perform their assigned Agency functions.

In addition, we may share this information in accordance with the Privacy Act and other Federal laws. For example, where authorized, we may use and disclose this information in computer matching programs, in which our records are compared with other records to establish or verify a person’s eligibility for Federal benefit programs and for repayment of incorrect or delinquent debts under these programs.

A list of additional routine uses is available in our Privacy Act System of Records Notices (SORNs) 60-0050, entitled Completed Determination Record – Continuing Disability Determinations, as published in the Federal Register (FR) on January 11, 2006 at 71 FR 1813 and 60-0221, entitled Vocational Rehabilitation Reimbursement Case Processing System, as published in the FR on January 11, 2006 at FR 1840, and 60-0320, entitled Disability Claim File (eDIB) as published in the FR on December 12, 2003. Additional information, and a full listing of all of our SORNs, is available on our website at www.ssa.gov/privacy.