Improving Public Confidence in Social Security: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Social Security and Family Policy of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, June 2, 1989, 4. sējumsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 - 103 lappuses |
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85. lappuse - ... eligible" means an individual who has qualified for appointment in an agency and whose name has been entered on the appropriate register or list of eligibles ; (4) "demonstration project" means a project conducted by the Office of Personnel Management, or under its supervision, to determine whether a specified change in personnel management policies or procedures would result in improved Federal personnel management; and (5) "research program...
73. lappuse - Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: My name is Robert J. Myers. I served in various actuarial capacities with the Social Security Administration and its predecessor agencies during 1934-70, being Chief Actuary for the last 23 of those years. In 1981-82, I was Deputy Commissioner of Social Security, and in 1982-83, I was Executive Director of the National Commission on Social Security Reform.
55. lappuse - When Social Security was enacted in 1935, an independent Social Security Board was established to administer the programs in the Social Security Act. It operated as a free-standing agency with jurisdiction over both social insurance and meanstested programs. In 1939 this board was placed under the then newly-organized Federal Security Agency. In 1946 the board was abolished and replaced by a single administrator. When the Department of Health, Education and Welfare replaced the Federal Security agency...
62. lappuse - Medicare Medicare, authorized under title XVIII of the Social Security Act, is a nationwide health insurance program for the aged and certain disabled persons. It consists of two parts: the hospital insurance (part A) program and the supplementary medical insurance (part B) program.
44. lappuse - ... restoration of confidence. The issues here are not by any means entirely administrative. The argument for an independent agency is largely administrative, but the argument for the Board form of organization on a bi-partisan basis with the continuity arising from term appointments is desirable primarily to underline the long-range character and trustee nature of the government's responsibility.
89. lappuse - In addition to the administrative disruption, another practical consideration is that removal of SSA from HHS would eliminate many of the administrative economies inherent in a large Government department, requiring expenditure of trust fund monies for the establishment of duplicative and expensive payroll, personnel, and other support structures now operating efficiently in HHS.
77. lappuse - Members of the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Committee on Ways and Means...
16. lappuse - Congress created the Bureau of the Budget (now the Office of Management and Budget) to review the morass of agency budgetary information and to approve agency budget requests.
89. lappuse - My observation on every employment in life is, that, wherever and whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by close application thereto, it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein...
73. lappuse - An outstanding example of this is the infamous "notch" situation in the OASDI program, which could have been greatly alleviated by a feasible legislative change in 1981 (or even earlier), but never surfaced from the layers of review. This problem has been present for a number of years, in both Democratic and Republican administrations.