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B-170232 1 (1980-11-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjxf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES 4 WASHINGTON D.C. 2054a. B-170232 Vlovember 10, 1980 The Honorable Melvin Price Chairman, Commnittee on Armed Services House of Representatives The Honorable Bob Wilson Ranking Minority Member Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives Your letter of September 17, 1980, about our work in the military compensation area was quite disturbing to me. Aside from expressing dissatisfaction with our September 4 letter in which we made various suggestions on S. 91, a bill to revise the military Survivor Benefit Plan, the basic purpose of your letter seemed to be to suggest that our Office should not be reviewing policy issues within the Committee's jurisdiction. I belie've there may be some misunderstanding of our com- ments on S. 91 and our purpose in providing them. We agree that there are inequities in the Survivor Benefit Plan which should be changed. By no means should our letter be inter- preted to mean that GAO opposes improvements to the Survivor Benefit Plan as your letter characterized our position. For purposes of consistency and equity, the survivor benefit reduction for participating military retirees should not be the same as that required for civil service retirees since the benefits payable to military survivors are offset by survivor benefits received from social security. There is no social security offset against civil service survivor benefits because civil service retirees are not covered by social security. Thus, the military plan alone provides less survivor benefits than the civil service plan, even though retirees under the two plans must take the same reduction in their retirement benefits. As you noted, military retirees' benefit reductions may even amount to more than the benefits their survivors will receive. Our concern, and source of disagreement with . 91, was that since military members' costs were too high, a more appropriate remedy would be to reduce those costs, not LCI- .: c272:--

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