[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 2]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR401.150]

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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
               CHAPTER III--SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 401_PRIVACY AND DISCLOSURE OF OFFICIAL RECORDS AND INFORMATION--Table 
of Contents
 
        Subpart C_Disclosure of Official Records and Information
 
Sec. 401.150  Compatible purposes.

    (a) General. The Privacy Act allows us to disclose information, 
without the consent of the individual, to any other party for routine 
uses.
    (b) Routine use. We publish notices of systems of records in the 
Federal Register which contain a list of all routine use disclosures.
    (c) Determining compatibility. We disclose information for routine 
uses where necessary to carry out SSA's programs. It is also our policy 
to disclose information for use in other programs which have the same 
purposes as SSA programs if the information concerns eligibility, 
benefit amounts, or other matters of benefit status in a social security 
program and is relevant to determining the same matters in the other 
program. For example, we disclose information to the Railroad Retirement 
Board for pension and unemployment compensation programs, to the 
Veterans Administration for its benefit program, to worker's 
compensation programs, to State general

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assistance programs, and to other income maintenance programs at all 
levels of government; we also disclose for health-maintenance programs 
like Medicare and Medicaid, and in appropriate cases, for 
epidemiological and similar research.