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| 00-32739 | Proposed Collection; Comment Request | Notice | In Accordance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 which provides opportunity for public comment on new or revised data collections, the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) will publish periodic summaries of proposed data collections. Comments are invited on: (a) Whether the proposed information collection is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information has practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the RRB's estimate of the burden of the collection of the information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden related to the collection of information on respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology. Title and purpose of information collection; Application for Employee Annuity Under the Railroad Retirement Act; OMB 3220-0002. Section 2 of the Railroad Retirement Act (RRA), provides for payment of age and service, disability and supplemental annuities to qualified employees. The basic requirements for a regular employee annuity retirement annuity under the RRA is 120 months (10 years) of creditable railroad service. Benefits then become payable after the employee meets certain other requirements, which depend, in turn, on the type of annuity payable. The requirements relating to the annuities are prescribed in 20 CFR 216, and 220. The forms used by the RRB to collect information needed for determining entitlement and the amount of, an employee retirement annuity follow: Form AA-1, Application for Employee Annuity Under the Railroad Retirement Act, is completed by an applicant for either an age and service or disability annuity. It obtains information about the applicants marital history, work history, military service, benefits from other governmental agencies and railroad pensions. Form AA-1d, Application for Determination of Employee Disability, is completed by an employee who is filing for a disability annuity under the RRA, or a disability freeze under the Social Security Act for early Medicare based on a disability. Form G-204, Verification of Workers Compensation/Public Disability Benefit Information, is used to obtain and verify information concerning worker's compensation or public disability benefits that are or will be paid by a public agency to a disabled railroad employee. Completion of the forms is required to obtain a benefit. One response is requested of each respondent. The RRB proposes minor non-burden impacting editorial and formatting changes to Forms AA-1, AA-1d and G-204. The RRB estimates that 13,4000 Form AA-1's, 5,650 AA-1d's and 50 G-204's are completed annually. The estimated completion time for Form AA-1 is 37 to 62 minutes per response. The estimated completion time for Form AA-1d is 35 to 60 minutes per response. The estimated completion time for Form G-204 is 15 minutes per response. The renewal of this information collection will continue the RRB's initiative to consolidate information collections by major functional areas. The purpose of the initiative is to bring related collection instruments together in one collection, better manage the instruments, and prepare for the electronic collection of this information. (A collection instrument can be an individual form, electronic collection, interview, or any other method that collects specific information from the public.) As part of the OMB renewal process, the RRB proposes that this collection (OMB 3220-0002). Application for Employee Annuity under the Railroad Retirement Act, be renamed RRA Benefit Applications. Upon approval by OMB, the RRB intends to merge the following OMB approved collections into this collection by the expected expiration date(s). | 2000-12-22 | 2000 | 12 | https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/12/22/00-32739/proposed-collection-comment-request | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2000-12-22/pdf/00-32739.pdf | Railroad Retirement Board | 444 | In Accordance with the requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 which provides opportunity for public comment on new or revised data collections, the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) will publish periodic summaries of... |