Reading Room Document

Whether the provisions of section 12(d) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (45 U.S.C. § 362 (d)), as incorporated by section 10(b)6 of the Railroad Retirement Act (45 U.S.C. § 228j(b)6) into the latter Act, require that the Railroad Retirement Boa

In this memo, the OLC responded to the Railroad Retirement Board’s inquiry into whether, pursuant to the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act and the Railroad Retirement Act, the board could maintain the confidentiality of its files in response to requests by the FBI for information on claimants. Examining both the legislative history of the Act and the Act itself, the OLC confirmed that Congress intended for the board to maintain a policy of confidentiality and nondisclosure, with exceptions for the limited instances in which disclosure benefitted the employee claimants or their beneficiaries.

March 7, 1974