by Meghan Maury
Data Sharing Notice of the Week: Master Files of Social Security Number (SSN) Holders and SSN Applications. Through this notice, SSA is announcing its intention to share citizenship and immigration data with DHS and to share data with Treasury for the purpose of identifying, preventing, or recouping fraud and improper payments. Comments due December 12.
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Data Sharing
FDIC Records Systems. FDIC is modifying all of its records systems to increase interagency information sharing to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse, including with the Treasury Department. In addition, FDIC is modifying two records systems to use the term "sex" instead of "gender."
Comments due December 17.Determining Eligibility for Enrollment in Applicable State Health Subsidy Programs. Under this matching program, CMS will share data with state administering entities to determine applicants' eligibility for enrollment in applicable state health subsidy programs, including exemption from the requirement to maintain minimum essential coverage or from the individual responsibility payment. In addition, to avoid dual enrollment, information will be shared between CMS and AEs, and among AEs, for the purpose of verifying whether applicants and enrollees are currently eligible for or enrolled in a Medicaid/CHIP program. All information will be shared through a data services hub established by CMS to support the federally-facilitated health insurance exchange and state-based exchanges.
Comments due December 18.ACF and SSA Matching Program. Under this new matching program, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of Child Support Services (OCSS) will disclose quarterly wage information to SSA to establish or verify eligibility, continuing entitlement, or payment amounts, or all of the above, of individuals under Title II Disability Insurance (DI) program of the Social Security Act.
Comments due December 22.
Discrimination
Small Business Lending Under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. Under this proposal, the CFPB would dramatically change the type of data collected from lenders under the ECOA. Changes would include ceasing the collection of disaggregated race and ethnicity data, removing questions about LGBTQ-owned businesses, reducing the number of entities required to comply with the data collection requirements, and ceasing collection of data points like denial reason and pricing information.
Comments due December 15.Fair Housing Home Loan Data System. Treasury is proposing to rescind its Fair Housing Home Loan Data System regulation, arguing that the rule is largely duplicative of and inconsistent with other legal authorities that require national banks to collect and retain information on applications for home loans. The rule was issued "to provide a basis for a more effective fair housing monitoring program for home loans;" according to the listing, OCC examiners use data collected under the rule to assess fair lending risk at national banks.
Comments due December 18.
Education
Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). IPEDS collects data from postsecondary institutions on topics like enrollments, degrees and other awards earned, tuition and fees, average net price, student financial aid, graduation rates, student outcomes, revenues and expenditures, faculty salaries, and staff employed. ED is proposing to add an Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement, which is intended to capture information that could indicate whether institutions of higher education are using race-based preferencing in their admissions processes.
Comments due December 15.
HIV/AIDS
Improving Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program Part A and B Formula Awards Using Most Recent Address Data. HRSA is proposing a change to the methodology they use to allocate RWHA funding. Under this proposal, HRSA would calculate RWHAP Part A and B formula awards using case data based on most recent address, rather than residence at diagnosis, with a phase-in timeline and use of appropriate action to minimize funding fluctuations.
Comments due December 10.HRSA Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program HIV Quality Measures Module. RWHAP funds and coordinates with cities, states, and local clinics/community-based organizations to deliver efficient and effective HIV care, treatment, and support to low-income people with HIV. The HIVQM is an online tool to assist recipients in meeting the clinical quality management program requirement by allowing recipients to input data for the HRSA performance measures. HHS is changing the gender question to ask only about sex at birth, removing options to report on transgender participants in its programs. Roughly 20-25% of transgender women are living with HIV; trans women are 66 times more likely to have HIV and trans men are nearly 7 times more likely to have HIV.
Comments due December 19.
Immigration
Application for Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration. This form collects information necessary for consular officers to determine the eligibility and classification of an individual seeking an immigrant visa. In response to public comments from immigration attorneys, State made several changes to the form to simplify language or reporting requirements; however, State indicated that many concerns raised in the comments were deferred to a future effort to modernize the system overall.
Comments due December 19.
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