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    National Instant Criminal Background Check System

    Metadata Updated: September 4, 2024

    The SSA National Instant Criminal Background Check Database (PNICS) captures information on clients that have been identified as legally incompetent or disabled adults, diagnosed with certain mental disabilities, receiving Title II/XVI payments due to certain mental impairments, and have been paid benefits through a representative payee. The information is shared with the FBI. It is added to the FBI database to identify these individuals that are prohibited from purchasing , owning or transferring firearms and ammunition.

    Access & Use Information

    Non-public: This dataset is not for public access or use. Specific details are provided below. License: us-pd

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date September 4, 2024

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from SSA JSON

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date September 4, 2024
    Publisher Social Security Administration
    Maintainer
    Identifier US-GOV-SSA-1533
    Data Last Modified 2024-09-03
    Rights The publishing of the data asset cannot be done due to one or more of the following reasons: contains personal identifying information, contains federal tax information, contains sensitive information, or a data assessment has not been completed.
    Public Access Level non-public
    Bureau Code 016:00
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 50d30815-9403-4633-a2f2-f828b604edec
    Harvest Source Id 9386406b-a7b0-4834-a267-0f912b6340db
    Harvest Source Title SSA JSON
    License https://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
    Program Code 016:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 2f49e00241c05f38b6caa0574084bd550c46d6e288217c7adedce7b47ea747a2
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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