Computer Matching Program Involving Personally Identifiable Information

PURPOSE

This Departmental Regulation (DR) establishes policy and defines roles and responsibilities for conducting United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Computer Matching Programs (CMPs). This DR also addresses the use of computerized comparisons of two or more automated information systems for establishing and verifying Federal benefit program eligibility or recouping payments, delinquent debts, or overpayments owed to Government Agencies from a Federal benefit program.