SSA Wants Your Thoughts on Sharing Your Personal Records Forms
Published Date: 5/21/2025
Notice
Summary
The Social Security Administration wants your feedback on some forms they use to collect info, especially about sharing personal records. They’re updating these forms and want to make them easier and less time-consuming for everyone. If you have thoughts, send them in by July 21, 2025, so your voice counts before changes take effect.
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 1 mixed.
Online Scheduling for SSN and Case Actions
SSA expanded its Enterprise Scheduling System (ESS) so you can schedule, reschedule, or cancel appointments online for new or replacement Social Security cards and for Post-Entitlement (PE) actions. ESS had 3,150,000 annual respondents in SSA's estimate (3,000,000 internet; 150,000 technician-assisted), requires creating a credential via Login.gov or ID.me to use the online tool, collects your name, Social Security number, zip code, phone, and email, and lists an estimated annual theoretical opportunity cost of $7,181,250 for respondents.
New Electronic Consent Form Limits
SSA uses two consent forms to allow you to authorize disclosure of your Social Security records: the paper Form SSA-3288 and the electronic webform SSA-3288-OP1. The SSA-3288-OP1 webform (1,152 submissions in FY2024) lets you consent to specific types of records, while other writings or the paper SSA-3288 (440,374 submissions in FY2024) can authorize a broader range of record types; total annual respondents for these consent modalities were 441,626 with an estimated total burden of 36,907 hours and a theoretical opportunity cost of $6,719,958.
SSI Recipients May Face Quality-Review Interviews
SSA selects a stratified random sample of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients each month for mandatory quality-review interviews to verify eligibility and payment accuracy. SSA estimates 4,300 total respondents annually for these reviews, with a 60-minute average interview per respondent and an estimated annual theoretical opportunity cost of $57,191.
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