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PAD-82-24 1 (1981-12-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabmrk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I IqeOq COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES -, . . rp . WASHINGTON D.C. 204 B-202135 10 DEC 1981 The Honorable Alan Cranstn~lfU I United nStates Senatfe to 119804 Dear Senator Cranston: Subject: Cost to the Government of the Recent Partial Shutdown of Government Offices (PAD-82-24) This is in response to your oral request that the General Accounting Office provide you the costs to the Government of the recent partial shutdown of Government offices ordered by the President as a result of the impasse over the continuing resolution to fund Government operations for fiscal year 1982. Specifically you requested the cost of releasing thousands of Government employees from work on November 23, 1981, and then subsequently paying them for the time they were not at work; and other costs directly or indirectly related to the shutdown. In order to meet your needs for the data by December 10, it was not possible for GAO independently to develop estimates of the costs associated with the shutdown that affected many agencies on November 23. Therefore, to determine how agencies responded to the latest gap in funding, we contacted the 13 cabinet departments and 12 selected agencies and offices to obtain as much of the infor- mation requested as possible. The independent agencies contacted were selected either because they had large numbers of employees oc it was reported that they had furloughed employees on November 23. Data on the number of employees furloughed and the costs of implementing a shutdown are neither readily available nor easily obtainable. To obtain the cost data we developed a uniform set of questions and interviewed by telephone knowledgeable officials of the departments and agencies. As the attached table (see appendix I) shows the information we were able to obtain in the short time available varies considerably. Some agencies were able to give us the number of employees furloughed, but not the costs of paying administrative leave for the time furloughed; some pro- vided both figures; others provided a single cost estimate that included all costs-personnel, lost productivity, and shutdown planning activities; and some were unable to provide any specific figures in time to be included in our response.

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