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B-200587 1 (1980-09-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjwj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES ,b. WASHINGTON D.C, 20548 B-200587 ...... .SeptdtBter 30, i986 The Honorable David H. Pryor Chairman, Subcommittee on Civil Service and General Services Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: During your Subcommittee's July 12, 1979, hearing on the major issues facing the civil service retirement system, Hy Krieger, the Director of our Federal Personnel and Compensation Division, emphasized the contribution that V4sability retirement reform could make to the greater retention of productive employees and a reduction in costs to the taxpayers. Through your questions and the discussions that ensued with him and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), you expressed concern over the slowness with which OPM was moving to bring about the improvements that we had highlighted as being needed in our studies of the disability retirement program. You asked how the needed actions could be accelerated, and Mr. Krieger suggested that your continued interest in achieving meaningful results would be a positive force in achieving this. We are currently appraising the status and completeness of OPM's actions in the disability area, and in recent discus- sions with Subcommittee staff, they felt it would be useful for us to provide an interim assessment of the projress being made by OPM in dealing with this significant problem. I am pleased to let you know that we can see substantial improve- ments in OPM's administration of the disability retirement program. In our view, these improvements were stimulated in large measure by your thorough and constructive explora-tion of the issues and persistence in urging OPM to get on with the job at hand. In April 1980, OPM implemented a substantial change in its administration of the program that could reduce the number of disability retirements significantly. The change will not rid the program of all its problems, but it is definitely an important step toward that end.

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