Supporting Statement for:
(2900-0721)
VA Form 21-2680 |
Exam for Housebound Status or Permanent Need for Regular Aid and Attendance |
A. Justification
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) through its Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), administers an integrated program of benefits and services, established by law, for veterans, service personnel, and their dependents and/or beneficiaries. The aid and attendance (A&A) allowance is part of special monthly compensation (SMC) or special monthly pension (SMP), and paid because a person, due to mental or physical disability, requires the regular aid and attendance of another person in conducting the basic activities of daily living, such as : bathing, dressing, and going to the restroom. Entitlement to the A&A allowance extends to the Veteran, spouse, surviving parent(s), or surviving spouse.
Information is requested by this form under the authority of 38 U.S.C. 1114, 1521(d) and (e), 1115(1)(E), 1311(d), 1541(d) and (e). Regulatory authority is found in Title 38 CFR 3.351, 3.351(d), 3.351 (d)(2), 3.351(c)(2), 4.16, and 3.326(a).
VA Form 21-2680 is available on the One-VA Website in a fillable electronic format. VBA is currently hosting this form on a secure server and does not currently have the technology in place to allow for the complete submission of the form. Validation edits are performed to assure data integrity. Efforts within VA are underway to provide a mechanism to allow the information to be submitted electronically with a recognized signature technology. There currently is no utility process in place that will allow the data submitted on the form to be incorporated with an existing centralized legacy database.
Program reviews were conducted to identify potential areas of duplication; however, none were found to exist. There is no known Department or Agency, which maintains the necessary information, nor is it available from other sources within our Department.
The collection of information does not involve small businesses or entities.
This form is designed in a “user friendly” format, incorporating plain English, to comply with the President’s Memorandum of June 1, 1998, Plain Language in Government Writing.
There is no special circumstance requiring collection in a manner inconsistent with 5 CFR 1320.6 guidelines.
The Department notice was published in the Federal Register on October 2, 2014, Volume 79, No. 191, page 59561. No comments were received in response to this notice.
No payments or gifts to respondents have been made under this collection of information.
The records are maintained in the appropriate Privacy Act System of Records identified as 58VA21/22/28, “Compensation, Pension, Education, and Rehabilitation Records—VA,” as set forth in Privacy Act Issuances, 1993 compilation found in 74 Fed. Reg. 117 (June 19, 2009).
There are no questions of a sensitive nature.
Estimate of Information Collection Burden.
Number of Respondents: 14,000 per year
Frequency of Response is one time.
Annual burden: 7,000 hours
Estimated completion time: 30 minutes
According
to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Average Hourly Earnings, the
cost to the respondent is $24, making the total cost to the
respondents an estimated $168,000 (7,000 burden hours x $24 per
hour).
This
submission does not involve any recordkeeping costs.
Estimated Costs to the Federal Government:
Processing/Analyzing costs $641,340
(GS-12/5 @ $40.66 x 14,000 x 30/60 minutes = $284,620)
(GS-9/5 @ $28.04 x 14,000 x 30/60 minutes = $196,280)
(GS-7/5 @ $22.92 x 14,000 x 30/60 minutes = $160,440)
Forms are available on the VA inter/intranet forms websites.
Printing and production cost ($90/ 14 (thousand) $1,260
Total cost to government $642,600
The reporting burden has not changed. The form has been updated to include an expiration date placeholder.
The information collection is not for publication or tabulation use.
We are not seeking approval to omit the expiration date for OMB approval.
This submission does not contain any exceptions to the certification statement.
B. Collection of Information Employing Statistical Methods
The data collection does not employ statistical methods.
| File Type | application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document |
| File Title | SF 83 SS VAF 21-8926 |
| Author | Veterans Benefits Administrat |
| File Modified | 0000-00-00 |
| File Created | 2021-01-27 |