0960-AG96 201410 The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 0960 Social Security Administration SSA Wage Reports (809P)

We propose to amend our rules on processing employers' annual wage reports by adding electronic filing and removing magnetic media as a means of wage reporting. We also propose to revise our rules to remove the threshold percentage for when we will not accept an employer's wage reports submission. We propose to provide instead that if a "significant number" of an employer's electronic wage reports contain incorrect employee names or Social Security Numbers (SSN) or do not include SSNs, the employer must correct and resubmit the reports. We propose to provide general notice to employers of our threshold for what constitutes a "significant number" of incorrect wage reports. We also propose replacing outdated references and instructions to reflect current reporting requirements. These proposed changes would update our regulations and provide us with additional flexibility that will allow us to process wage reports more efficiently. Finally, we are making some stylistic changes that do not affect the policy.

]]> Substantive, Nonsignificant Previously Published in The Unified Agenda Long-Term Actions No No 20 CFR 404.1216 20 CFR 422.114 20 CFR 422.120 42 USC 405 42 USC 410 42 USC 418 42 USC 435 42 USC 902(a)(5) 42 USC 1320b-1 42 USC 1320b-13 No NPRM 01/00/2016 No No None No No www.regulations.gov No No 0960-AF38 Previously reported as Gina Bauer Social Insurance Specialist 0960 Social Security Administration SSA 410 966-8992 Office of Income Security Programs, 6401 Security Boulevard, Baltimore MD 21235-6401 Brian Rudick J. Social Insurance Specialist, Regulations Writer 0960 Social Security Administration SSA 410 965-7102 brian.rudick@ssa.gov Office of Regulations and Reports Clearance, 6401 Security Boulevard, Baltimore MD 21235-6401