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HRD-85-55 1 (1985-03-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabnqf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE RELEASE ASHINGTON D.C. 20548 HUMAN RIKSOURCK DIVgION bythel o r, ....... sde the Qen CH 29, 1985 The Honorable Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. United States Senate hl l Iiih~ Dear Senator Mathias: 126670 Subject: SSA's Transfer of Research Personnel to Operating Units (GAO/HRD-85-55) In your August 7, 1984, letter, you asked us to look into the Social Security Administration's (SSA's) transfer of indi- viduals from major components of its research office to SSA operating units. The transfer involved about 137 people,1 including both research personnel and administrative support staff. In your letter, you posed the following three questions: 1. Will SSA's transfer of research functions to operating functions hinder its ability to forecast the needs of the system? 2. Is this action contrary to the legislative mandate for SSA to perform policy analysis and research? 3. Is this action also contrary to the recognized need for independent policy analysis and research connected with a proposed independent agency from the Department of Health and Human Services? The transfer was carried out as part of an SSA reorganiza- tion announced in the Federal Register on June 1, 1983. Under the reorganization, SSA created three new program offices--(1) the Office of Disability Insurance, (2) the Office of Retirement and Survivors Insurance, and (3) the Office of Supplemental Se- curity Income. Among other things, each office is responsible for evaluating or developing operational policy. With the re- organization, SSA's Office of Research and Statistics became the Office of Research, Statistics, and International Policy (ORSIP) by absorbing SSA's International Policy Staff. ORSIP is respon- sible for conducting SSA's research and statistical programs. 1This number includes full-time permanent, part-time, and tem- porary employees. (105223)

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