# 2025-21082: Big Brother Agencies Team Up to Cross-Check Your Benefits

2025-21082, Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program, is a Federal Register notice from Social Security Administration published 2025-11-25, effective 2026-01-01; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-21082
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-21082
- Title: Privacy Act of 1974; Matching Program
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Social Security Administration
- Citation: 90 FR 53412
- Published: 2025-11-25
- Effective: 2026-01-01
- Comments close: 2025-12-26
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Big Brother Agencies Team Up to Cross-Check Your Benefits

## Summary

The Social Security Administration is teaming up with the IRS to double-check that people getting benefits for age, blindness, or disability are eligible and receiving the right amount. This new program starts January 1, 2026, and runs for 18 months. If you want to share your thoughts, you’ve got until December 26, 2025, to speak up—no personal info, please!

## Abstract

In accordance with the provisions of the Privacy Act, as amended, this notice announces a new matching program with the United States Department of the Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Under this matching program, the IRS will disclose IRS return information to SSA for use in verifying eligibility for, and the correct amount of, benefits to qualified aged, blind, and disabled individuals.

## Effects PRIA read

- IRS-SSA Match to Verify SSI Benefits: mixed, medium. The Social Security Administration (SSA) will use Internal Revenue Service (IRS) return information to verify eligibility for, and the correct amount of, Title XVI Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for qualified aged, blind, and disabled applicants and recipients (and their deemors). The…
- Specific Tax and Payment Data Shared: mixed, medium. Under the agreement SSA will electronically send IRS a finder file with Social Security numbers and name control, and the IRS will disclose to SSA payee account number, payee name and mailing address, payee taxpayer identification number (TIN), payer name and address, payer TIN, and income type and…

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## Sources
- [2025-21082 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/11/25/2025-21082/privacy-act-of-1974-matching-program)
- [2025-21082 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-11-25/pdf/2025-21082.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-21082 (as of 2026-06-08).