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             United  States General Accounting Office
                      Washington, D.C.  20548

                                          FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                          EXPECTED AT 10:00 A.M.
                                          APRIL 26, 1984

                           STATEMENT OF

               ROSSLYN KLEEMAN, ASSOCIATE  DIRECTOR

                   GENERAL GOVERNMENT  DIVISION
                                                             123991
                            BEFORE THE

        HOUSE COMMITTEE ON POST OFFICE  AND CIVIL SERVICE

        SUBCOMMITTEE ON COMPENSATION AND EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

                               ON

      PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE MERIT PAY  SYSTEM AS DESCRIBED

      IN THE CIVIL SERVICE AMENDMENTS OF  1984 (H.R. 5066)

         AND THE MERIT PAY IMPROVEMENT ACT  (H.R. 5401)



Madam Chair and Members of the Subcommittee:

     We are pleased to be here to discuss  the proposed merit pay

bills.  We have issued three reports on the merit pay  system and

believe that it needs to be changed.  We  concur with the objec-

tives of both bills, and believe that  either could improve the

current system.  I would like to begin by describing  the bills'

main provisions.  Both bills would:

     --Eliminate the merit pay pool concept.  A merit  pay pool

       is an organizational subunit composed of  employees

       covered by an agency's merit pay system.  Employees  in a

       pool compete against each other for merit pay  increases.

       In our most recent merit pay report, we noted the  amount


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