Didn't Know About This

Social Security is required by the Paperwork Reduction Act to publish in the Federal Register information about any new or changed requirement that any person or entity supply information to Social Security. As you might imagine, these notices are normally quite boring. They mostly concern new editions of various forms. Here is a recently published notice that concerns something quite different, not alarming or concerning, but a bit surprising:

Blood Donor Locator Service (BDLS)--20 CFR 401.200--0960-0501.This regulation stipulates that when blood donor facilities identify blood donations as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-positive, the overseeing State agency must provide the names and Social Security Numbers of the affected donors to SSA's Blood Donor Locator Service. SSA uses this information to furnish the State agencies with the blood donors' address information to notify the blood donors. Respondents are State agencies acting on behalf of blood donor facilities.