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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 43 / Monday, March 8, 2021 / Notices
Final Guidance Interpreting the Provisions of Public Law 100503, the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988, published in the Federal Register on June 19, 1989 54
FR 25818; and OMB Circular No. A
108, notice is hereby provided of the reestablishment of the matching program between SSA and ED to assist ED in the verification of Social Security numbers SSNs and confirmation of citizenship status as recorded in SSA records in order to verify the eligibility of applicants for student financial assistance under title IV of the HEA.
Participating Agencies ED and SSA.

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Purposes The purpose of this matching program between ED and SSA is to assist the Secretary of Education with verification of immigration status and SSNs under 20 U.S.C. 1091g and p. SSA will verify the issuance of an SSN and a date of death if applicable to students and the parents of dependent students, and will confirm the citizenship status of those students applying for financial assistance programs authorized under title IV of the HEA. Verification of this information by SSA will help ED satisfy its obligation to ensure that individuals applying for financial assistance meet eligibility requirements of the HEA.
Verification by this matching program effectuates the purpose of the HEA
because it provides an efficient and comprehensive method of verifying the accuracy of each individuals SSN, date of death if applicable, and claim to a citizenship status that permits that individual to qualify for title IV, HEA
assistance.

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EDs systems of records involved in the matching program maintain information on individuals who apply for Federal student financial assistance through the Free Application for Federal Student Aid FAFSA and on individuals who apply to receive Person Authentication Service PAS
Credentials, a user ID, and a password to electronically access their FAFSA
record.
SSAs system of records involved in the matching program maintains records about each individual who has applied for, and obtained, an SSN.
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Authority for Conducting the Matching Program ED is authorized to participate in the matching program under sections 428Bf 20 U.S.C. 10782f, 483a12
20 U.S.C. 1090a12, 484g 20 U.S.C.
1091g, and 484p 20 U.S.C. 1091p of the HEA.
SSA is authorized to participate in the matching program under section 1106 of the Social Security Act 42 U.S.C. 1306
and the regulations promulgated pursuant to that section 20 CFR part 401. Section 7213 of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 provides SSA authority to add a death indicator to verification routines that SSA determines to be appropriate.
The legal authority for ED and SSA to disclose information under the matching program also includes subsection b3 of the Privacy Act 5
U.S.C. 552ab3.

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EDs systems of records involved in the matching program contain 1 the information to determine an applicants eligibility for Federal student financial assistance, and 2 the applicants information to receive PAS Credentials, a user ID, and a password. The specific data elements that ED will transmit to SSA are: students and parents of dependent students SSN, first name, last name, and date of birth DOB.
SSAs system of records involved in the matching program maintains information required to apply for, and obtain, an SSN. The specific data elements that SSA will send back to ED
include: SSN, first name, last name, DOB, and an SSA verification code on each record to indicate the match results. The verification codes are: 1 =
No match on SSN, 3 = SSN match, name match, no match on DOB, 5 = SSN
match, no match on name, DOB not checked, 6 = SSN not verified, Blank =
SSN match, name match, DOB match.
SSA will also send a date of death if one is present on SSAs database for the record. Records returned from SSA also will include a citizenship status code as follows: A = U.S. citizen, B = legal alien, eligible to work, C = legal alien, not eligible to work, D = other, E = alien, student restricted, F = conditionally legalized alien, = foreign born, Blank = domestic born U.S. citizen, N =
unable to verify citizenship due to no match on name, DOB, or SSN.
Systems of Records There are two ED systems of records involved in the disclosure of information from ED to SSA in this matching program. The first is entitled, Federal Student Aid Application File 181101, last published in the Federal Register on October 29, 2019
84 FR 57856. See https
www2.ed.gov/notices/ed-pia.htmlfsa Note: the ED Central Processing System CPS is the ED information system that
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processes data from the Federal Student Aid Application File. The second is entitled, Person Authentication Service PAS 181112 published in the Federal Register on March 20, 2015 80
FR 14981. In addition, ED will maintain the information that it receives back from SSA in the foregoing ED
systems of records and in the Common Origination and Disbursement COD
system of records 181102, which was last published in the Federal Register on August 16, 2019 84 FR
41979. See https
www.federalregister.gov/documents/
2019/08/16/2019-17615/privacy-act-of1974-system-of-records.
SSAs system of records involved in this matching program is entitled, Master Files of Social Security Number SSN Holders and SSN Applications Enumeration System 600058, last published in the Federal Register on December 29, 2010 75 FR 82121, July 5, 2013 78 FR 40542, February 13, 2014 79 FR 8780, July 3, 2018 83 FR
31250, and November 1, 2018 83 FR
54969.
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Mark Brown, Chief Operating Officer Federal Student Aid.
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