0960-0189 Privacy Act Statement (revised)

Privacy Act Statement
Collection and Use of Personal Information

Sections 205(a), 228(a), 1614(a) and 1836 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 verifying your eligibility for benefits.

We will use the information to check data for accuracy and to verify documentation used to establish your eligibility for benefits. We may also share your information for the following purposes, called routine uses:

• To contractors and other Federal agencies, as necessary, for the purpose of assisting the Social Security Administration (SSA) in the efficient administration of its programs. We will disclose information under the routine use only in situations in which SSA may enter into a contractual or similar agreement with a third party to assist in accomplishing an agency function relating to this system of records; and

• 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 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 (SORN) 60-0040, entitled Quality Review System, as published in the Federal Register (FR) on October 13 1982, at 47 FR 45606; 60-0059, entitled Earnings Recording and Self-Employment Income System as published in the FR on January 11, 2006, at 71 FR 1819; and 60-0090, entitled Master Beneficiary Record, as published in the FR on January 11, 2006, at 71 FR 1826. Additional information and a full listing of all our SORNs are available on our website at www.ssa.gov/privacy.