Common use of VERIFICATION PROCEDURES AND OPPORTUNITY TO CONTEST FINDINGS Clause in Contracts

VERIFICATION PROCEDURES AND OPPORTUNITY TO CONTEST FINDINGS. The Privacy Act requires that each matching agreement specify procedures for verifying information produced in the matching program and an opportunity to contest findings, as required by subsection (p). 5 U.S.C. § 552a(o)(1)(E). A. Verification Procedures (1) In order to protect any individual whose records are used in a matching program, no recipient agency, non-Federal agency, or source agency may suspend, terminate, reduce, or make a final denial of any financial assistance or payment under a Federal benefit program to such individual, or take other adverse action against such individual, as a result of information produced by such matching program, until (A) (i) the agency has independently verified the information; (B) the individual receives a notice from the agency containing a statement of its findings and informing the individual of the opportunity to contest such findings; and (i) the expiration of any time period established for the program by statute or regulation for the individual to respond to that notice; or (ii) in the case of a program for which no such period is established, the end of the 30-day period beginning on the date on which notice under subparagraph

VERIFICATION PROCEDURES AND OPPORTUNITY TO CONTEST FINDINGS. The Privacy Act requires that each matching agreement specify procedures for verifying information produced in the matching program and an opportunity to contest findings, as required by subsection (p). 5 U.S.C. § 552a(o)(1)(E). A. Verification Procedures (1) In order to protect any individual whose records are used in a matching program, no recipient agency, non-Federal agency, or source agency may suspend, terminate, reduce, or make a final denial of any financial assistance or payment under a Federal federal benefit program to such individual, or take other adverse action against such individual, as a result of information produced by such matching program, until (A) (i) the agency has independently verified the information; (B) the individual receives a notice from the agency containing a statement of its findings and informing the individual of the opportunity to contest such findings; and (i) the expiration of any time period established for the program by statute or regulation for the individual to respond to that notice; or (ii) in the case of a program for which no such period is established, the end of the 30-day period beginning on the date on which notice under subparagraph