Embed Notice

@paul Looks like it's after a quietly published NPRM whose comment period is passed, and the Social Security Website seems to not offer those same opt out options.
Sigh.
There was a Notice of Proposed Rule published in the Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 159 / Wednesday, August 20, 2025, listing the Routine Uses on page number 40698.
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records
AGENCY: Social Security Administration (SSA).
ACTION: Notice of a modified system of records.
The new routine uses are effective September 19, 2025.
ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES: We will disclose records pursuant to the following routine uses...
4. To contractors and other Federal
agencies, as necessary, for assisting SSA in the efficient administration of its programs. We will disclose information under this routine use only in situations in which SSA may enter into a contractual or similar agreement with a third party to assist in accomplishing an agency function relating to this system of records.
5. To student volunteers, individuals
working under a personal services
contract, and other workers who
technically do not have the status of
Federal employees, when they are
performing work for SSA...