SSA strips gender references from the SSN master file system-of-records notice

Data/communicationsSSA

Date
Actor
Social Security Administration
Type
Data/communications
Section
SUPPLEMENT: THE GOVERNMENT-WIDE CFR 'TERMINOLOGY' RULEMAKINGS ARE ONLY PARTIALLY CAPTURED — TSA'S MAY 2025 FINAL RULE AND THE AUGUST 2026 FDA COMMENT REOPENING ARE MISSING

Summary

Publishes a correction to the Privacy Act system of records notice for the "Master Files of Social Security Number (SSN) Holders and SSN Applications" (60-0058). The notice states: "We are revising the categories of individuals covered by the system and existing routine use No. 45 to remove gender references, in compliance with Executive Order 14168." This is the earliest Federal Register document located in which the operative content is an EO 14168 terminology deletion — one month before any CFR amendment in the series, and applied to the single most consequential federal identity database.

Status

In effect. Followed by further SSA SORN revisions in August 2025 (below) and by the SSA CFR technical amendment of April 2, 2026. (See also section 6; section 12.)

As recorded in the data of . Check the sources for anything newer.

Documents

Sources