5 C.F.R. § 1630.4   Request for notification and access.


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Title 5: Administrative Personnel
PART 1630—PRIVACY ACT REGULATIONS

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§ 1630.4   Request for notification and access.

(a) TSP records. (1) Records on TSP participants and the spouses, former spouses, and beneficiaries of TSP participants are maintained in the Governmentwide system of records, FRTIB–1, Thrift Savings Plan Records. A participant or a spouse, former spouse, or beneficiary of a participant must make his or her inquiry in accordance with the chart set forth in this paragraph. The mailing address of the Thrift Savings Plan Service Office is: National Finance Center, PO Box 61500, New Orleans, LA, 70161–1500. Telephone inquiries are subject to the verification procedures set forth in §1630.7. A written inquiry must include the name and Social Security number of the participant or of the spouse, former spouse, or beneficiary of the participant, as appropriate.

To obtain information about or gain access to TSP records about you

 ------------------------------------------------------------------------                                                         If you are a                                                        participant who                                     If you are a     has separated from          If you want:            participant who is  Federal employment                                   a current Federal     or a spouse,                                       employee:       former spouse, or                                                         beneficiary:------------------------------------------------------------------------To make inquiry as to whether     Call or write to    Call or write to you are a subject of this         your employing      TSP record system of records..               agency in           keeper.                                   accordance with                                   agency procedures                                   for personnel or                                   payroll records.To gain access to a record about  Call or write to    Call or write to you.                              your employing      TSP record                                   agency to request   keeper.                                   access to                                   personnel and                                   payroll records                                   regarding the                                   agency's and the                                   participant's                                   contributions,                                   and adjustments                                   to contributions.                                   Call or write to                                   the TSP record                                   keeper to gain                                   access to loan                                   status and                                   repayments,                                   earnings,                                   contributions                                   allocation                                   elections,                                   interfund                                   transfers, and                                   withdrawal                                   records.To learn the history of           Write to TSP        Write to TSP disclosures of records about      record keeper..     record keeper. you to entities other than the participant's employing agency or the Board or auditors see § 1630.4 (a)(4).------------------------------------------------------------------------

(2) Participants may also inquire whether this system contains records about them and access certain records through the account access section of the TSP Web site and the ThriftLine (the TSP's automated telephone system). The TSP Web site is located at www.tsp.gov. To use the TSP ThriftLine, the participant must have a touch-tone telephone and call the following number (504) 255–8777. The following information is available on the TSP Web site and the ThriftLine: account balance; available loan amount; the status of a monthly withdrawal payment; the current status of a loan or withdrawal application; and an interfund transfer request. To access these features the participant will need to provide his or her SSN and PIN.

(3) A Privacy Act request which is incorrectly submitted to the Board will not be considered received until received by the record keeper. The Board will submit such a Privacy Act request to the record keeper within three workdays. A Privacy Act request which is incorrectly submitted to the record keeper will not be considered received until received by the employing agency. The record keeper will submit such a Privacy Act request to the employing agency within three workdays.

(4) No disclosure history will be made when the Board contracts for an audit of TSP financial statements (which includes the review and sampling of TSP account balances).

(5) No disclosure history will be made when the Department of Labor or the General Accounting Office audits TSP financial statements (which includes the review and sampling of TSP account balances) in accordance with their responsibilities under chapter 84 of title 5 of the U.S. Code. Rather, a requester will be advised that these agencies have statutory obligations to audit TSP activities and that in the course of such audits they randomly sample individual TSP accounts to test for account accuracy.

(b) Non-TSP Board records. An individual who wishes to know if a specific system of records maintained by the Board contains a record pertaining to him or her, or who wishes access to such records, shall address a written request to the Privacy Act Officer, Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, 1250 H Street, NW., Washington, DC 20005. The request letter should contain the complete name and identifying number of the pertinent system as published in the annual Federal Register notice describing the Board's Systems of Records; the full name and address of the subject individual; the subject's Social Security number if a Board employee; a brief description of the nature, time, place, and circumstances of the individual's prior association with the Board; and any other information the individual believes would help the Privacy Act Officer determine whether the information about the individual is included in the system of records. In instances where the information is insufficient to ensure disclosure to the subject individual to whom the record pertains, the Board reserves the right to ask the requester for additional identifying information. The words “PRIVACY ACT REQUEST” should be printed on both the letter and the envelope.

[55 FR 18852, May 7, 1990, as amended at 59 FR 55331, Nov. 7, 1994; 64 FR 67693, 67695, Dec. 3, 1999]

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