Social Security and Incarceration
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| Tracking # |
SSA-2021-005611 |
| Submitted | Jan. 29, 2021 |
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From: Seamus Thompson
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
I am requesting SSA records (anonymous and/or redacted) that combine prisoner data with disability application and approval data. This will help evaluate the relationship and economic interaction between incarceration and federal disability assistance.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Seamus Thompson
From: Social Security Administration
This message is to confirm your request submission to the FOIAonline application: View Request. Request information is as follows: (https://www.foiaonline.gov/foiaonline/action/public/submissionDetails?trackingNumber=SSA-2021-005611&type=request)
* Tracking Number: SSA-2021-005611
* Requester Name: Seamus Thompson
* Date Submitted: 01/31/2021
* Request Status: Submitted
* Description:
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:
I am requesting SSA records (anonymous and/or redacted) that combine prisoner data with disability application and approval data. This will help evaluate the relationship and economic interaction between incarceration and federal disability assistance.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.
Sincerely,
Seamus Thompson
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From: Social Security Administration
Dear Mr. Thompson:
The Social Security Administration (SSA) processed your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, SSA-2021-005611. Our final response letter is attached.
Please do not reply directly to this email correspondence. If you have an account with FOIAonline, you can correspond directly with us by logging into your account. If you need to correspond with us regarding your FOIA request but do not have an account with FOIAonline, please send your correspondence to FOIA.Public.Liaison@ssa.gov. The FOIA Public Liaison mailbox was created to assist the public with their FOIA requests, as well as to provide assistance to individuals requesting access to their own records under the Privacy Act. When you email this mailbox, we encourage you to limit the amount of personally identifiable information you provide in your email correspondence. While SSA operates within a secure network, we have no control of the data we receive while it is in transit to or from our FOIA Public Liaison mailbox. Please include your FOIA tracking number in your email.
Sincerely,
The FOIA Team
Social Security Administration
From: Seamus Thompson
Hello -
Thank you for the response. However, I do not understand that to be correct. SSA maintains individual person records on the MBR and SSID. These individual person records contain both disability application and approval data AND prisoner data. I am requesting this data simply be aggregated and anonymized. However, if you want to provide me individual anonymized records I will also accept that, as that is the form in which they exist.
Thank you,
Seamus
From: Seamus Thompson
Hello -
Thank you for the response. However, I do not understand that to be correct. SSA maintains individual person records on the MBR and SSID. These individual person records contain both disability application and approval data AND prisoner data. I am requesting this data simply be aggregated and anonymized. However, if you want to provide me individual anonymized records I will also accept that, as that is the form in which they exist.
Thank you,
Seamus
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Jan. 31, 2021. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response. You had assigned it reference number #SSA-2021-005611.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Social Security Administration
Greetings,
Thank you for your email. According to our records, our response for SSA-2021-005611 was mailed on March 1, 2021 to the address provided. We are able to send a copy of the response letter from our FOIA Public Liaison mailbox as the response letter does not contain any personally identifiable information (PII), such as records containing Social Security Numbers. Please see attached. If you wish to pursue the request further, you will need to submit a new request using https://foia.ssa.gov<https://foia.ssa.gov/> as you are past the appeal window of 90 days for SSA-2021-005611.
Thank you,
The FOIA Team
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