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EDUCATION, WORKFORCE, AND INCOME SECURITY
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We have also identified opportunities to save millions of taxpayer dollars by better
ensuring that benefit payments are provided only to those eligible. When we
reported, for example, that the Social Security Administration's inattention to
verifying recipients' eligibility for the Supplemental Security Income program had
contributed to benefit overpayments, the agency developed a "payment safeguard
strategy" that enabled it to collect and prevent over $597 million more in
overpayments in fiscal year 1999 as compared with the previous year.
Our work has also played a significant role in helping policymakers assess options for
restructuring and reforming major government programs and policies. In examining
the long-term solvency problem facing the Social Security program, for example, we
developed and applied criteria for evaluating Social Security reform proposals.
These criteria provide a clear and objective analytical framework that the Congress,
the administration, and the public can use in evaluating legislative reforms.
Policymakers also use our work extensively to examine workforce issues, including
the "white collar" provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act; the use of, and
workplace protections provided to, contingent workers; and the increase in the use of
skilled foreign workers to temporarily fill skilled worker shortages.
RIGHTS OF RECENT and
Assess the District of Columbia's child welfare system reform efforts
Identify ways to improve the delivery of child nutrition program benefits
Examine commercial activities in schools
Analyze direct student loan default rates
Examine the role of state automated systems in helping families move from
welfare to work
Assess the availability of unemployment insurance for low-wage workers,
including former welfare recipients
Determine promising approaches to integrate employment and training services
under the Workforce Investment Act
Examine OSHA inspections at establishments with labor unrest
Assess solvency, benefit adequacy, and other effects of proposals to reform
social security
Identify and analyze key practices of disability programs in the private sector and
in countries that assist people with severe disabilities to return to work
Analyze the uses of Social Security numbers and existing safeguards to prevent
their unauthorized disclosure
Analyze the effects of cash balance pension plans on retirement income adequacyIMPACT OF!
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United States. General Accounting Office. Serving the Congress and the Nation: Education, Workforce, and Income Security Information, text, March 1, 2001; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc294583/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.