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PRIVACY ACT NOTICE
The Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 5 U.S.C. § 552a requires PBGC to give you this notice when
collecting information from you. PBGC uses the information we collect to determine whether you are
entitled to a benefit payment from a retirement plan that has terminated, and if so, to calculate the
amount due to you, and to make appropriate benefit payments. The information collected here,
including your name, Social Security Number, date of birth, and/or other necessary personally
identifiable information (PII), is used by PBGC to identify your records within PBGC, to report income
for tax purposes, and to respond to lawful requests for information about you from other individuals and
entities. Your response is voluntary. However, failure to provide information to PBGC, including your
name, Social Security Number, date of birth, and/or other necessary PII, may delay or prevent PBGC
from calculating and paying your benefits.
PBGC may release information about you to other individuals and entities when necessary and
appropriate under 5 U.S.C. § 552a(b) of the Privacy Act, including: to third parties to make benefit
payments to you; to a company that was responsible for your plan or to entities related to that company;
to a labor organization that represents you; to obtain information from the Federal Aviation
Administration relevant to a pilot or former pilot's eligibility for a disability benefit; to obtain your address
from other sources when PBGC does not have a current or valid address for you; to comply with Federal
laws requiring disclosure of the information contained in our records; to facilitate statistical research,
audit or investigative matters; to appropriate agencies for the collection of debt; and, to a limited extent
to your spouse, former spouse, child, or other dependent when such individual may be entitled to
benefits from PBGC.
PBGC may also release information about you to appropriate federal, state, local or tribal law
enforcement agencies when PBGC becomes aware of a possible violation of civil or criminal law. If
PBGC, an employee of PBGC, the United States, or another agency of the United States, is involved
in litigation, PBGC may provide relevant information about you to a court or other adjudicative body or
to the Department of Justice when it represents PBGC. PBGC may also provide information about you
to the Office of Management and Budget in connection with review of private relief legislation or to a
Congressional office in response to an inquiry that office makes about you at your request. This
information may also be disclosed for any of the PBGC general routine uses as published in the Federal
Register.
PBGC publishes notices in the Federal Register that describe in more detail when information about
you may be made available to others. A copy of the most recent Federal Register notice may be
obtained online at PBGC.gov/privacy or by calling PBGC's Customer Contact Center, 1-800-400-7242.
If you are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability, please dial 7-1-1 to access
telecommunications relay services. PBGC's authority to collect information from you, including your
Social Security Number, is derived from 29 U.S.C. §§ 1055, 1056(d)(3), 1302, 1321, 1322, 1322a, 1341
and 1350.
OBA Ver: 08/09/2022
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