Long Privacy Act Notice 2018

Long Privacy Act Notice
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
P.O. Box 151750 Alexandria, VA 22315-1750

For assistance, call 1-800-400-7242

PRIVACY ACT NOTICE
The Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, 5 U.S.C. § 552a (2012 & Supp. II 2014) 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, and if so, then how much is due you under a
defined benefit or defined contribution plan whose funds are held under the control or authority of the
PBGC, and to make appropriate benefit payments. Your Social Security Number 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 Social Security Number, may delay or prevent
PBGC from calculating and paying your pension 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 pension 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 from PBGC's Customer Contact Center by calling, 1-800-400-7242. If you use a TTY/ASCII,
call toll-free 1-800-877-8339 and give the communications assistant PBGC's telephone number.
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 (2012 & Supp. II 2014).