Social Security Administration
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Julie Brill, the acting deputy associate director for the Senior Executive Service and Performance Management at the Office of Personnel Management, credited the Unlocktalent.gov tool to help share best practices.
March 15, 2018 -
The Social Security Administration has an urgent need to modernize how it does business.
March 14, 2018 -
Many federal departments are feeling and performing poorly. Backlogs are agencies' fever. The symptom has many causes.
March 08, 2018 -
GAO report found SSA in violation of Federal Vacancies Reform Act after agency goes 5 years without appointed commissioner, or even a nominee.
March 07, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee wants Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to explain why he decided to nix an idea to have the Postal Service work with the Census Bureau.
March 06, 2018 -
Agriculture Department CIO Gary Washington provides more details on its plans across the five Centers of Excellence areas.
February 12, 2018 -
Giving agencies better access to accurate, timely death records could help curb improper payments to deceased employees.
February 06, 2018 -
For the first time in years, the overall score across all agencies reviewed on the Federal Plain Language Report Card dropped, and some agencies received scores below a C-minus.
October 13, 2017 -
Lack of updated deceased records at VA shows billions in improper payments to deceased veterans, according to SSA IG
September 01, 2017 -
Backlogs provide evidence of Social Security's crisis as surely as high fever indicates an infection.
August 25, 2017 -
The Social Security Administration will bring its fraud and oversight sub-components under one roof this fall, as part of the Trump administration's government reorganization plan.
August 11, 2017 -
Rajive Mathur has been appointed the new deputy commissioner for systems and CIO for the Social Security Administration.
June 06, 2017 -
Rob Klopp spent two years as the Social Security Administration’s chief information officer and brought the agency into the modern technology era.
June 02, 2017 -
Tammy Flanagan with the National Institute of Transition Planning joins host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn to discuss Uncle Sam's alphabet-soup federal benefits program for workers and retirees. March 22, 2017
March 14, 2017 -
Proposed budget cuts to civilian agencies in fiscal 2018 may mean that the Social Security Administration will have to issue furlough notices to its employees. A union that represents SSA field operations and phone service center employees said the agency's workforce could see five days of furloughs for every 1 percent cut to the Social Security administration budget.
March 07, 2017