82 FR 9249 - Proposed Collection; Comment Request
RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 22 (February 3, 2017)
Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 22 (February 3, 2017)
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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 22 (Friday, February 3, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 9249-9250] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-02272] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD Proposed Collection; Comment Request Summary: 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. 1. Title and purpose of information collection: RUIA Investigations and Continuing Entitlement; OMB 3220-0025. Under Section 1(k) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (RUIA), unemployment and sickness benefits are not payable for any day remuneration is payable or accrues to the claimant. Also Section 4(a-1) of the RUIA provides that unemployment or sickness benefits are not payable for any day the claimant receives the same benefits under any law other than the RUIA. Under Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) regulation 20 CFR 322.4(a), a claimant's certification or statement on an RRB-provided claim form, that he or she did not work on any day claimed and did not receive income such as vacation pay or pay for time lost, shall constitute sufficient evidence unless there is conflicting evidence. Further, under 20 CFR 322.4(b), when there is a question raised as to whether or not remuneration is payable or has accrued to a claimant with respect to a claimed day(s), an investigation shall be made with a view to obtaining information sufficient for a finding. The RRB utilizes the following three forms to obtain information from railroad employers, nonrailroad employers, and claimants, that is needed to determine whether a claimed day(s) of unemployment or sickness were improperly or fraudulently claimed: Form ID-5i, Request for Employment Information; Form ID-5R (SUP), Report of Employees Paid RUIA Benefits for Every Day in Month Reported as Month of Creditable Service; and Form UI-48, Statement Regarding Benefits Claimed for Days Worked. Completion is voluntary. One response is requested of each respondent. To qualify for unemployment or sickness benefits payable under Section 2 of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (RUIA), a railroad employee must have certain qualifying earnings in the applicable base year. In addition, to qualify for extended or accelerated benefits under Section 2 of the RUIA, a railroad employee who has exhausted his or her rights to normal benefits must have at least 10 years of railroad service (under certain conditions, military service may be credited as months of railroad service). Accelerated benefits are unemployment or sickness benefits that are payable to a railroad employee before the regular July 1 beginning date of a benefit year if an employee has 10 or more years of service and is not qualified for benefits in the current benefit year. During the RUIA claims review process, the RRB may determine that unemployment or sickness benefits cannot be awarded because RRB records show insufficient qualifying service and/or compensation. When this occurs, the RRB allows the claimant the opportunity to provide additional information if they believe that the RRB service and compensation records are incorrect. Depending on the circumstances, the RRB provides the following forms to obtain information needed to determine if a claimant has sufficient service or compensation to qualify for unemployment or sickness benefits. Form UI-9, Statement of Employment and Wages; Form UI-44, Claim for Credit for Military Service; Form ID-4U, Advising of Service/Earnings Requirements for Unemployment Benefits; and Form ID- 4X, Advising of Service/Earnings Requirements for Sickness Benefits. Completion of these forms is required to obtain or retain a benefit. One response is required of each respondent. The RRB proposes no change to the forms in this collection. Estimate of Annual Respondent Burden ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Annual Time Burden Form No. responses (minutes) (hours) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UI-9............................................................ 69 10 11 UI-44........................................................... 10 5 1 UI-48........................................................... 14 12 3 ID-4U........................................................... 35 5 3 ID-4X........................................................... 25 5 2 ID-5i........................................................... 1,050 15 262 ID-5R (SUP)..................................................... 400 10 67 ----------------------------------------------- Total....................................................... 1,603 .............. 349 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[Page 9250]] 2. Title and purpose of information collection: Self-Employment/ Corporate Officer Work and Earnings Monitoring; OMB 3220-0202. Section 2 of the Railroad Retirement Act (RRA) provides for the payment of disability annuities to qualified employees. Section 2 also provides that if the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) receives a report of an annuitant working for a railroad or earning more than prescribed dollar amounts from either nonrailroad employment or self-employment, the annuity is no longer payable, or can be reduced, for the months worked. The regulations related to the nonpayment or reduction of the annuity by reason of work are prescribed in 20 CFR 220.160-164. Some activities claimed by the applicant as ``self-employment'' may actually be employment for someone else (e.g., training officer, consultant, salesman). 20 CFR 216.22(c) states, for example, that an applicant is considered an employee, and not self-employed, when acting as a corporate officer, since the corporation is the applicant's employer. Whether the RRB classifies a particular activity as self- employment or as work for an employer depends upon the circumstances in each case. The circumstances are prescribed in 20 CFR 216.21-216-23. Certain types of work may actually indicate an annuitant's recovery from disability. Regulations related to an annuitant's recovery from disability for work are prescribed in 20 CFR 220.17-220-20. In addition, the RRB conducts continuing disability reviews (also known as a CDR), to determine whether the annuitant continues to meet the disability requirements of the law. Payment of disability benefits and/or a beneficiary's period of disability will end if medical evidence or other information shows that an annuitant is not disabled under the standards prescribed in Section 2 of the RRA. Continuing disability reviews are generally conducted if one or more of the following conditions are met: (1) The annuitant is scheduled for a routine periodic review, (2) the annuitant returns to work and successfully completes a trial work period, (3) substantial earnings are posted to the annuitant's wage record, or (4) information is received from the annuitant or a reliable source that the annuitant has recovered or returned to work. Provisions relating to when and how often the RRB conducts disability reviews are prescribed in 20 CFR 220.186. To enhance program integrity activities, the RRB utilizes Form G- 252, Self-Employment/Corporate Officer Work and Earnings Monitoring. Form G-252 obtains information from a disability annuitant who either claims to be self-employed or a corporate officer, or who the RRB determines to be self-employed or a corporate officer after a continuing disability review. The continuing disability review may be prompted by a report of work, return to railroad service, an allegation of a medical improvement or a routine disability review call-up. The information gathered is used to determine entitlement and/or continued entitlement to, and the amount of, the disability annuity, as prescribed in 20 CFR 220.176. Completion is required to retain benefits. One response is required of each respondent. The RRB proposes no changes to Form G-252. Estimate of Annual Respondent Burden ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Annual Time Burden Form No. responses (minutes) (hours) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- G-252........................................................... 100 20 33 ----------------------------------------------- Total....................................................... 100 .............. 33 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Information or Comments: To request more information or to obtain a copy of the information collection justification, forms, and/or supporting material, contact Dana Hickman at (312) 751-4981 or [email protected]. Comments regarding the information collection should be addressed to Brian Foster, Railroad Retirement Board, 844 North Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611-1275 or emailed to [email protected]. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this notice. Brian D. Foster, Clearance Officer. [FR Doc. 2017-02272 Filed 2-2-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7905-01-P
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3. Docket No(s).: CP2017–109; Filing of the information; (c) ways to enhance response is requested of each
Title: Notice of United States Postal the quality, utility, and clarity of the respondent.
Service of Filing a Functionally information to be collected; and (d) To qualify for unemployment or
Equivalent Global Expedited Package ways to minimize the burden related to sickness benefits payable under Section
Services 3 Negotiated Service the collection of information on 2 of the Railroad Unemployment
Agreement and Application for Non- respondents, including the use of Insurance Act (RUIA), a railroad
Public Treatment of Materials Filed automated collection techniques or employee must have certain qualifying
Under Seal; Filing Acceptance Date: other forms of information technology. earnings in the applicable base year. In
January 27, 2017; Filing Authority: 39 1. Title and purpose of information addition, to qualify for extended or
CFR 3015.5; Public Representative: collection: RUIA Investigations and accelerated benefits under Section 2 of
Kenneth R. Moeller; Comments Due: Continuing Entitlement; OMB 3220– the RUIA, a railroad employee who has
February 6, 2017. 0025. exhausted his or her rights to normal
4. Docket No(s).: CP2017–110; Filing Under Section 1(k) of the Railroad benefits must have at least 10 years of
Title: Notice of United States Postal Unemployment Insurance Act (RUIA), railroad service (under certain
Service of Filing a Functionally unemployment and sickness benefits are conditions, military service may be
Equivalent Global Expedited Package not payable for any day remuneration is credited as months of railroad service).
Services 3 Negotiated Service payable or accrues to the claimant. Also Accelerated benefits are unemployment
Agreement and Application for Non- Section 4(a–1) of the RUIA provides that or sickness benefits that are payable to
Public Treatment of Materials Filed unemployment or sickness benefits are a railroad employee before the regular
Under Seal; Filing Acceptance Date: not payable for any day the claimant July 1 beginning date of a benefit year
January 27, 2017; Filing Authority: 39 receives the same benefits under any if an employee has 10 or more years of
CFR 3015.5; Public Representative: law other than the RUIA. Under service and is not qualified for benefits
Curtis E. Kidd; Comments Due: Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) in the current benefit year.
February 6, 2017. regulation 20 CFR 322.4(a), a claimant’s During the RUIA claims review
This notice will be published in the certification or statement on an RRB- process, the RRB may determine that
Federal Register. provided claim form, that he or she did unemployment or sickness benefits
Stacy L. Ruble, not work on any day claimed and did cannot be awarded because RRB records
Secretary. not receive income such as vacation pay show insufficient qualifying service
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or pay for time lost, shall constitute and/or compensation. When this occurs,
sufficient evidence unless there is the RRB allows the claimant the
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conflicting evidence. Further, under 20 opportunity to provide additional
CFR 322.4(b), when there is a question information if they believe that the RRB
raised as to whether or not service and compensation records are
RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD remuneration is payable or has accrued incorrect.
Proposed Collection; Comment to a claimant with respect to a claimed Depending on the circumstances, the
Request day(s), an investigation shall be made RRB provides the following forms to
with a view to obtaining information obtain information needed to determine
Summary: In accordance with the sufficient for a finding. The RRB utilizes if a claimant has sufficient service or
requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the following three forms to obtain compensation to qualify for
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 information from railroad employers, unemployment or sickness benefits.
which provides opportunity for public nonrailroad employers, and claimants, Form UI–9, Statement of Employment
comment on new or revised data that is needed to determine whether a and Wages; Form UI–44, Claim for
collections, the Railroad Retirement claimed day(s) of unemployment or Credit for Military Service; Form ID–4U,
Board (RRB) will publish periodic sickness were improperly or Advising of Service/Earnings
summaries of proposed data collections. fraudulently claimed: Form ID–5i, Requirements for Unemployment
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether Request for Employment Information; Benefits; and Form ID–4X, Advising of
the proposed information collection is Form ID–5R (SUP), Report of Employees Service/Earnings Requirements for
necessary for the proper performance of Paid RUIA Benefits for Every Day in Sickness Benefits. Completion of these
the functions of the agency, including Month Reported as Month of Creditable forms is required to obtain or retain a
whether the information has practical Service; and Form UI–48, Statement benefit. One response is required of
utility; (b) the accuracy of the RRB’s Regarding Benefits Claimed for Days each respondent. The RRB proposes no
estimate of the burden of the collection Worked. Completion is voluntary. One change to the forms in this collection.
ESTIMATE OF ANNUAL RESPONDENT BURDEN
Annual Time Burden
Form No. responses (minutes) (hours)
UI–9 ............................................................................................................................................. 69 10 11
UI–44 ........................................................................................................................................... 10 5 1
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UI–48 ........................................................................................................................................... 14 12 3
ID–4U ........................................................................................................................................... 35 5 3
ID–4X ........................................................................................................................................... 25 5 2
ID–5i ............................................................................................................................................. 1,050 15 262
ID–5R (SUP) ................................................................................................................................ 400 10 67
Total ...................................................................................................................................... 1,603 ........................ 349
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2. Title and purpose of information as work for an employer depends upon information is received from the
collection: Self-Employment/Corporate the circumstances in each case. The annuitant or a reliable source that the
Officer Work and Earnings Monitoring; circumstances are prescribed in 20 CFR annuitant has recovered or returned to
OMB 3220–0202. 216.21–216–23. work. Provisions relating to when and
Section 2 of the Railroad Retirement Certain types of work may actually how often the RRB conducts disability
Act (RRA) provides for the payment of indicate an annuitant’s recovery from reviews are prescribed in 20 CFR
disability annuities to qualified disability. Regulations related to an 220.186.
employees. Section 2 also provides that annuitant’s recovery from disability for To enhance program integrity
if the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) work are prescribed in 20 CFR 220.17– activities, the RRB utilizes Form G–252,
receives a report of an annuitant 220–20. Self-Employment/Corporate Officer
working for a railroad or earning more In addition, the RRB conducts Work and Earnings Monitoring. Form
than prescribed dollar amounts from continuing disability reviews (also G–252 obtains information from a
either nonrailroad employment or self- known as a CDR), to determine whether disability annuitant who either claims
employment, the annuity is no longer the annuitant continues to meet the to be self-employed or a corporate
payable, or can be reduced, for the disability requirements of the law. officer, or who the RRB determines to be
months worked. The regulations related Payment of disability benefits and/or a self-employed or a corporate officer after
to the nonpayment or reduction of the beneficiary’s period of disability will a continuing disability review. The
annuity by reason of work are end if medical evidence or other continuing disability review may be
prescribed in 20 CFR 220.160–164. information shows that an annuitant is prompted by a report of work, return to
Some activities claimed by the not disabled under the standards railroad service, an allegation of a
applicant as ‘‘self-employment’’ may prescribed in Section 2 of the RRA. medical improvement or a routine
actually be employment for someone Continuing disability reviews are disability review call-up. The
else (e.g., training officer, consultant, generally conducted if one or more of information gathered is used to
salesman). 20 CFR 216.22(c) states, for the following conditions are met: (1) determine entitlement and/or continued
example, that an applicant is considered The annuitant is scheduled for a routine entitlement to, and the amount of, the
an employee, and not self-employed, periodic review, (2) the annuitant disability annuity, as prescribed in 20
when acting as a corporate officer, since returns to work and successfully CFR 220.176. Completion is required to
the corporation is the applicant’s completes a trial work period, (3) retain benefits. One response is required
employer. Whether the RRB classifies a substantial earnings are posted to the of each respondent. The RRB proposes
particular activity as self-employment or annuitant’s wage record, or (4) no changes to Form G–252.
ESTIMATE OF ANNUAL RESPONDENT BURDEN
Annual Time Burden
Form No. responses (minutes) (hours)
G–252 .......................................................................................................................................... 100 20 33
Total ...................................................................................................................................... 100 ........................ 33
Additional Information or Comments: SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE securities exchange on December 13,
To request more information or to COMMISSION 2016.4 One of the conditions of the
obtain a copy of the information Commission’s approval was the
[Release No. 34–79898; File No. 4–698]
collection justification, forms, and/or requirement for MIAX PEARL to join
supporting material, contact Dana Joint Industry Plan; Notice of Filing the CAT NMS Plan.5 The amendment
Hickman at (312) 751–4981 or and Immediate Effectiveness of adds MIAX PEARL as a Participant to
Dana.Hickman@RRB.GOV. Comments Amendment to the Plan Governing the the Plan.6 The Commission is
regarding the information collection Consolidated Audit Trail To Add MIAX publishing this notice to solicit
should be addressed to Brian Foster, PEARL, LLC as a Participant comments on the amendment from
Railroad Retirement Board, 844 North interested persons.
January 30, 2017.
Rush Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611– I. Description and Purpose of the
Pursuant to Section 11A(a)(3) of the
1275 or emailed to Brian.Foster@rrb.gov. Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Amendment
Written comments should be received (‘‘Act’’) 1 and Rule 608 thereunder,2
within 60 days of this notice. The amendment to the CAT NMS
notice is hereby given that on January Plan adds MIAX PEARL as a
Brian D. Foster, 12, 2017, MIAX PEARL, LLC (‘‘MIAX Participant.7 The CAT NMS Plan
PEARL’’ or ‘‘Exchange’’) filed with the
Clearance Officer.
Securities and Exchange Commission 4 See Securities and Exchange Act Release No.
[FR Doc. 2017–02272 Filed 2–2–17; 8:45 am]
(‘‘Commission’’) an amendment to the 79543 (Dec. 13, 2016), 81 FR 92901 (Dec. 20, 2016)
BILLING CODE 7905–01–P Plan Governing the Consolidated Audit (File No. 10–227).
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5 See id. 81 FR at 92916.
Trail (‘‘Plan’’).3 The Commission
6 See Letter from Barbara J. Comly, Executive Vice
approved the application of MIAX
President, General Counsel, and Corporate
PEARL to register as a national Secretary, MIAX PEARL, to Brent J. Fields,
Secretary, Commission, dated January 11, 2017.
1 15
U.S.C. 78k–1(a)(3). 7 See Section 1.1 of the CAT NMS Plan. The term
2 17
CFR 242.608. ‘‘Participant’’ is defined in the CAT NMS Plan as
3 The Commission approved the CAT NMS Plan any Person that becomes a Participant as permitted
on November 15, 2016. See Securities Exchange Act by this agreement, in such Person’s capacity as a
Release No. 79318, 81 FR 84695 (Nov. 23, 2016). Participant in the Company (it being understood
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