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FPCD-81-18 1 (1980-12-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbic0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATEs GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 IFEDRAL PERSONNEL ANO COMPENSATION DIVISION B-201442 DECEMBER 15, 1980 The Honorable Jule M. Sugarman ~ ~ ~ l Deputy Director, Office of Personnel Management 113973 Dear Mr. Sugarman: Subject: Civil Service Disability Retirement Program &FPCD-81-18) In reports issued in 1976 and 1978, we recommended several changes to the disability retirement program which would serve to retain marginally disabled yet potentially productive employees. Those reports concluded that (1) ben- efits may have been paid unnecessarily to many retirees, (2) disabled Federal employees were not being effectively reassigned, and (3).economically and medically recovered annuitants were not always being removed from the disability retirement rolls. We have enclosed the results of our followup review of the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM's) actions on our previous recommendations. We commend OPM's actions to improve its administration of the disability retirement program. We are recommending, however, that more be done tc reduce the number of annuitants added to the rolls and to reduce disability retirement costs. These recommendations include (1) retaining more potentially productive employees through reassignment and reemployment, (2) more effectively removing the economically and medically recovered disability annuitants from the rolls, and (3) dis- continuing the policy of advising employees to use extended sick leave before filing applications for disability retire- ment. We believe these concerns warrant OPM's immediate atten- tion. Resolving them could help considerably in strengthening the civil service disability retirement program. (963148)

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