District of Columbia Log of Records Retention Requirements
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Records which must be kept indefinitely or for approximately 100 years for legal and/or administrative purposes, and/or are of enduring value for historical research purposes and so suitable for transfer to the authority's archive or place of deposit.
This category will include files of secondary importance having reference value for a limited period not exceeding 10 years. In exceptional cases, if the record is required to be retained beyond 10 years it will be upgraded to B Category.
KEEP 3 TO 7 YEARS Knowing that, a good rule of thumb is to save any document that verifies information on your tax returnincluding Forms W-2 and 1099, bank and brokerage statements, tuition payments and charitable donation receiptsfor three to seven years.
Personal information. Unless otherwise stated, personal data should not be held for longer than six years after the subject's last contact with the authority. This period reflects the general time within which, under the Limitation Act 1980, a civil action could be brought before the courts.
In Summary: Research Records must be maintained a minimum of three years after the research is completed and the study closed with the IRB.
A retention period (associated with a retention schedule or retention program) is an aspect of records and information management (RIM) and the records life cycle that identifies the duration of time for which the information should be maintained or "retained," irrespective of format (paper, electronic, or other).
For example, if financial records have a retention period of five years, and the records were created during the 1995-1996 fiscal year (July 1, 1995 - June 30, 1996), the five-year retention period begins on July 1, 1996 and ends five years later on July 1, 2001.
Different records are kept for different lengths of time. Most records are destroyed after a certain period of time. Generally most health and care records are kept for eight years after your last treatment. GP records are kept for much longer.
Period of Limitations that apply to income tax returns Keep records for 7 years if you file a claim for a loss from worthless securities or bad debt deduction. Keep records for 6 years if you do not report income that you should report, and it is more than 25% of the gross income shown on your return.
Federal regulations require research records to be retained for at least 3 years after the completion of the research (45 CFR 46) and UVA regulations require that data are kept for at least 5 years. Additional standards from your discipline may also be applicable to your data storage plan.
