Social Security Administration
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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 -
Rob Klopp, the Social Security Administration’s out-going chief information officer, said by taking over the management of the Disability Case Processing System, applying an agile or dev/ops approach and listening to their customers at the state level, the agency made more progress in 14 months than it did in the previous four years.
January 19, 2017 -
The Education Department's College Scorecard aims to give students and their families the most current data on colleges and universities. The information includes everything from location and size, to what a salary might be for a particular program and skillset a student might want to pursue.
January 02, 2017 -
OPM is expected to release a final rule in the next few months that would change how agencies use data to do workforce planning.
November 30, 2016 -
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden met with Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services CEO Meg Whitman in October to discuss ongoing challenges with the $2.5 billion ACES contract.
November 17, 2016 -
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is concerned about four agencies that had particularly high retirement processing error rates in September. The Social Security Administration and departments of Agriculture, Interior and Veterans Affairs topped the list. Congress now wants the Government Accountability Office to review the process that agencies and the Office of Personnel Management each use to review a retirement claim.
October 20, 2016 -
The Obama Administration's hope with its latest report and strategic plan on AI, is to make government more efficient for the benefit of taxpayers and to contribute to society.
October 19, 2016 -
Welcome to the #FedFeed, a daily collection of federal ephemera gathered from social media and presented for your enjoyment.
September 15, 2016 -
A new report from the Social Security Administration’s inspector general found 35 deceased federal beneficiaries were paid $1.7 million between 1991 and 2013.
August 30, 2016