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B-202251 1 (1981-06-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkbn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL O.7 THE UNITECD VsATES WAS iNGTON D.C. 20548 B-202251 The Honorable Wil liam V. + J . ....Co tt e . V ,_ -- Affairs United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: Your letter of February 9, 1981, requested our 2cmments on S. 6 , a bill which provides for a reduction in Federal travel and consultant costs and improved Federal debt collection operations. Debts owed the Federal Government are enormous and growing each ay/ear. e ag-ncies have Leore that the a.mourit Oc receivables due from U.S. citizens and organizations totalled $139 billion at the start of fiscal year 1981--a 36-percent increase in the last 2 years. Expected losses on these receiv- ables were estimated at $7.6 billion. Also, at the start of fiscal year 1980, the agencies reported that $24 billion due from U.S. citizens and organizations was delinquent--S13 billion of which was unpaid taxes. Unfortunately, these gloomy statis- tics may be materially understated because the accounting sys- tems of many agencies do not provide accurate information on receivables, expected losses, and writeoffs. In a March 30, 1981, report to the House Budget Committee (PAD-81-69), we estimated that as much as $6.7 billion in delin- quent nontax debts could be collected by the Government in future fiscal years if Federal agencies were given the necessary debt collection tools and took aggressive collection action. Of this amount, w est1im.ated that as much as 3.5 billion coulq be col- lected during fiscal year 1982 to 1984. Savings of this magnitude, tude, however, can only be achieved throuch a sustained high pri- ority, high intensity effort to put in Place much stronger poli- cies, procedures, and systems and to operate them aggressively once they are installed. Prompt legislative and administrative action will be required. On April 23, 1981, we testified before your committee on the detailed legislative actions needed for improved debt collec- tion management by the Federal Government. A copy of this testi- mony is enclosed. Many of the actions we discussed are included in S. 61. We also testified on a similar bill, S. 3160 (96th

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