Justification for Non-Substantive Change - 0502

Justification for Non-Substantive Changes for Form SSA-1588

Beneficiary Recontact Report

OMB No. 0960-0502

Background

On September 15, 2017, the President signed into law H.R. 624, the Social Security Fraud Prevention Act of 2017, which became Section 2 of Public Law No. 115-59. This law, among other provisions, restricts the inclusion of Social Security numbers (SSNs) on Federal documents sent by mail. The law also requires Federal agencies to report to Congress annually on implementation efforts to remove SSNs from documents sent by mail, with the first report due 30 days after enactment, and annually thereafter for five years.

Because of this legislation, we will use the Beneficiary Notice Control number (BNC#) as a notice identifier in lieu of displaying the SSN on mailed documents. To be in accordance with the law, we would like OMB approval as soon as possible to implement these revisions.

Revisions to the Collection Instrument:

• Change #1: In the upper right-hand corner, we changed “Social Security Number” to “BNC#.”

Justification #1: We are updating this form in accordance with the law.

Future Changes

We are going to complete the scheduled full OMB clearance that will include additional updates for this form. We could not include this minor change for the BNC# during the full clearance due to the implementation stipulation within the Social Security Fraud Prevention Act of 2017.

SSA will implement this change to the SSA-1588 upon OMB approval.

This action does not affect the public reporting burden.