Availability of information and records to the public; fees for providing information and records; procedures and appeals--SSA. Notice of proposed rulemaking.
The Social Security Administration (SSA) announces proposed changes in the fees it charges for providing records from its files and record related services. These proposed changes will conform SSA's fee schedule to that recently published by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The proposed rules also implement the discretion given the Secretary of Health and Human Services by section 2207 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to charge the full cost of providing certain information and records. The proposed rules do not change SSA's longstanding policy of generally not charging an individual for information needed to assure that our records concerning her or him are correct. In preparing these amendments, we deleted from SSA's rules several provisions concerning Medicare information. The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has published separate regulations governing the availability of Medicare information and records. We have also clarified the rules for handling requests for information about individuals under the Privacy Act and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and incorporated HHS' recent rules on who has authority to release or deny records in this revised material.
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