Proposed Information Collection Activity; Information Comparison With Insurance Data
The Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), is requesting Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval of the Information C...
Office of Child Support Enforcement, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
ACTION:
Request for public comments.
SUMMARY:
The Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), is
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requesting Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval of the Information Comparison with Insurance Data (OMB #0970-0342, expiration January 31, 2027) for an additional 3 years. OCSE revised the Insurance Match Implementation Guide and reduced the burden by 43.25 percent.
DATES:
Comments due January 4, 2027.
ADDRESSES:
In compliance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ACF is soliciting public comment on the specific aspects of the information collection described above. You can obtain copies of the proposed collection of information and submit comments by emailing
infocollection@acf.hhs.gov.
Identify all by the title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description:
The Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 amended section 452 of the Social Security Act to authorize the Health and Human Services Secretary, through the Federal Parent Locator Service, to conduct comparisons of information concerning individuals owing past-due child support with information maintained by insurers (or their agents) concerning insurance claims, settlements, awards, and payments. OCSE sends the daily results of the insurance data match in an Insurance Match Response Record to child support agencies, that use the insurance data matches to collect past-due support from the insurance proceeds. OCSE incorporated a separate burden calculation for respondents opting to use electronic quarterly reporting.
On December 19, 2025, ACF published a notice in the
Federal Register
Volume 90, Number 242, Page 59525 to announce that the Office of Child Support Services (OCSS) is now OCSE. Any reference to OCSS is changed to OCSE in the collection instruments. Further, OCSE revised the Insurance Match Implementation Guide to include additional guidance for connectivity, remove obsolete text, and add an additional field in the Debtor File Layout.
Respondents:
Insurers or their agents, including the U.S. Department of Labor and state agencies administering workers' compensation programs, and the Insurance Services Office.
Annual Burden Estimates:
The burden estimates were updated to reflect current estimates for the respondents and responses over the next 3 years. The burden reduction is attributable to the large reduction in the number of insurers manually reporting daily through the Insurance Match Debt Inquiry application. The total number decreased from 150 to 65. The prior burden was 3,090.86 hours, the current burden is 1,754.09 hours, and this amounts to a burden reduction of 1,336.77 hours, or 43.25 percent.
Information collection instrument
Total
annual
number of
respondents
Total annual
number of
responses per
respondent
Average
annual
burden
hours per
response
Total annual
burden hours
Insurance Match File: Quarterly Reporting Electronically
2
4
0.083
0.66
Insurance Match File: Monthly Reporting Electronically
25
12
0.083
24.90
Insurance Match File: Weekly Reporting Electronically
8
52
0.083
34.53
Insurance Match File: Daily Reporting Electronically
3
251
0.083
62.50
Insurance Match File: Daily Reporting Manually
65
251
0.1
1,631.50
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours:
1,754.09.
Comments:
The Department specifically requests comments on (a) whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of information; (c) the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including through the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of information technology. Consideration will be given to comments and suggestions submitted within 60 days of this publication.
Use this for formal legal and research references to the published document.
91 FR 69851
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“Proposed Information Collection Activity; Information Comparison With Insurance Data,” thefederalregister.org (November 5, 2026), https://thefederalregister.org/documents/2026-22557/proposed-information-collection-activity-information-comparison-with-insurance-data.
42 U.S.C. 652(a)(9)