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B-130961 1 (1972-10-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaepz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON D C ZO148 B-130961 OCT 1 2 1972 Dear Mr. Chairman Pursuant to your request of September 15, 1972, and sub- sequent discussions wthi your office, we have obtained costs and other details concerning recent Government publications which were directed principally to older Americans. Two of the publications--benefit increase notices and Project Findt--were sent out with regular mailings of social security checks The Social Security Administration (SSA), Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, issued an explanatory leaflet which accompanied each social security payment mailed to bene- ficiaries on October 3, 1972 The leaflet explained the bene- fit increase of 20 percent, provided by legislation approved by the President on July 1, 1972. The notice referred directly to President Nixon's approval of the statute. SSA had 27.2 mil- lion copies of the notice printed at a cost of $30,196. We were told by agency officials that the notice was necessary to inform recipients as to why the checks were in a different amount from previous ones. Officials told us that this was a regular practice when benefits were increased and in the past such notices had included references to the President then in -- office We were furnished a copy of the notice of benefit in- crease which SSA included with the social security payments mailed to beneficiaries on March 8, 1968. The notice included a reference to President Johnson. The Treasury Department, which mails'social security benefit checks, placed the notices in the envelopes along with the checks. The Department used mechanical equipment for this purpose and any additional cost attributable to the operation was considered by SSA officials to be negligible. There were no additional postage costs. See Enclosure I Project Find--a pamphlet which was published by SSA in cooperation with the Department oi Agriculture--was designed by staff members of the Information Division, Agricultural Marketing Service. Project Find was an outreach effort to lo- cate older people who might be eligible for food assistance

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