SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (Pub. L. 100-503) amended the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a) by establishing procedural safeguards related to agencies' use of records when performing certain types of computerized matching. Section 7201 of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-508) further amended the Privacy Act regarding protections for individuals when agencies perform these functions. Additionally, the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (31 U.S.C. 3351 et seq.) provides the head of the agency operating the DNP Working System with the authority, in consultation with OMB, to waive the requirements in 5 U.S.C. 552a(o) in any case or class of cases for matching activities conducted under the DNP Initiative (31 U.S.C. 3354). Pursuant to this authority, the Secretary of the Treasury, after consulting with the OMB Director, authorized the issuance of a four-year waiver of the requirement for entering into a matching agreement under 5 U.S.C. 552a(o) for the class of matching programs that meet all of the criteria defined in OMB Memorandum M-25-32, Preventing Improper Payments and Protecting Privacy through Do Not Pay.

DOL, in consultation with Treasury, has determined that the DNP matching program described in this notice is eligible for the waiver described in OMB Memorandum M-25-32, which is effective from September 10, 2025 through September 10, 2029. For purposes of this notice, matching activities conducted between the Federal benefit programs listed in the appendix to this document and the DNP Working System constitute a single agency-wide matching program implementing DNP for DOL's listed programs.¹

Participating Agencies

The DOL programs listed in the appendix of this notice will match against the DNP Working System, which is maintained by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service at the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Authority for Conducting the Matching Program

The Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (31 U.S.C. 3351 et seq.) establishes the DNP Initiative and requires, for the purposes of identifying and preventing improper payments, each executive agency to have access to, and use of, the relevant databases in DNP to verify payment or award eligibility. Additional applicable authorities for this matching program include Executive Order 13520, Reducing Improper Payments (74 FR 62201); Executive Order 14249, Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse (90 FR ( printed page 56224) 14011); and OMB Memorandum M-25-32, Preventing Improper Payments and Protecting Privacy Through Do Not Pay. Additional information regarding the statutory authorities for the collection and maintenance of information for each of the DOL programs that will conduct matches with the DNP Working System are contained within the systems of records notices listed in the appendix below.

Purpose(s)

The purposes of the matching program are identifying and preventing improper payments and conducting any related recovery activities by verifying through Do Not Pay prepayment or pre-award eligibility. Data elements that are necessary for eligibility determinations for a relevant DOL program that are contained in records from DOL systems of records will be compared with records in the DNP Working System. When there is a match between a record provided by the DOL program and a record in the DNP Working System, the DNP Working System will provide to the submitting DOL program notice of a potentially matching record and will identify the database(s) that contain the potentially matching record(s). The DOL program will then review the information to determine whether additional action is needed. If no matches are identified, the DNP Working System will provide a no match response to the submitting DOL program.

Categories of Individuals

Applicants for, or recipients of, Federal funds from those DOL programs listed in the appendix below.

Categories of Records

Data elements that will be matched include: entity name (which may include individual name and/or business/trading names, if applicable); Social Security Number (SSN); Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN); bank account information, including account number and financial institution routing number. Data elements that will not be matched but will be part of the matching program include: Date of birth and employment records.²

System(s) of Records

The Systems of Records that will be matched against the DNP Working System are listed in the Appendix to this notice. The records involved in the matching program from DOL/GOVT-1 are those maintained by DOL.

Appendix

Below is a list of the DOL programs that will match records with the DNP Working System. For purposes of this notice, matching activities conducted between the Federal benefit programs listed in the following appendix and the DNP Working System constitute a single agency-wide matching program implementing DNP for the agency. An asterisk (*) designates the last full Federal Register notice that includes all of the elements that are required to be in a system of records notice.

Footnote

1. The statutory definition of the term “matching program” means “any computerized comparison of—(i) two or more automated systems of records or a system of records with non-Federal records” for certain enumerated purposes. 5 U.S.C. 552a(a)(8) (emphasis added). There is a separate statutory definition for “Federal benefit program.” See OMB Memorandum M-25-32 at Appendix II, page 2, sec. a.3.iii.1 (recognizing that a single agency matching program may consist of multiple systems of records). Thus, this notice applies to the DNP matching program for multiple Federal benefits programs and associated systems of records within DOL.

2. “A matching program covers not only the actual computerized comparison, but the investigative followup and ultimate action, if any” (Final Guidance Interpreting the Provisions of Pub. L. 100-503, the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988, 54 FR 25822, (June 19, 1989)).

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