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B-174226 1 (1981-05-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadvnz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-174226 MATTER OF: DIGEST:, THE COZMPTT40LLER GENER~AL .-F TH-F-UNITED-STATEB WASHINGTON, 0. , '. 20548 OATE DATE: iY U 1 District of Columbia's Reporting and Recording Obligations for Disability Determination Services District of Columbia may obligate fiscal year funding authority allocated to it for purpose of making determination of individual's eligi- bility for Social Security disability benefits at the time it issues purchase order for medi- cal examination of individual, notwithstanding fact that examination may be performed in next fiscal year. In this case need for examination arises at time person makes claim for disability benefits and scheduling of examination is beyond control of District. 58 Comp. Gen. 321 (1979) distinguished. This decision is to Audrey Rowe, Commissioner, Commission on Social Services, District of Columbia Depa-rfment of Human Services (DHS), concerning a possible conflict between the procedures set forth in the decisions of this Office and foll6wed by the District when obligating appropriations by contracts or orders for services and the procedures set forth in the Social Security Administration's (SSA) Disability Insurance State Manual (DISM) to be followed by States when recording and reporting as obligations orders for medical exhminations. The Commissioner is under the impression that our decisions require all orders for services to be recorded as obligations against the appropriation current at the time the services were rendered. The DISM, on the other hand, requires that States report and record orders for medical examinations as obligations when they are made. The Commissioner therefore asks which method should be followed. Section 221(b) of the Social Security Act (Act), 42 U.S.C. S 421 (b) , authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) to enter into agreements with States to have determinations made as to the nature and duration of an individual's disability for the purpose of various provisions of the Act performed by State agencies, including, forrpurs s of Title II of the Act, the District of Columbia, 42 U.S.C. § 410(h). The law also provides that each State whicb agrees to make disability determinations is entitled to receive from trust funds (either the Federal Disability Trust Fund or the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance -Trust Fund) reimbursement f costs incurred in carrying out the agreements. 42 U.S.C. § 421(e), The Congress prescribes in annual appropriation acts, under the heading Limitation on Administrative Expenses (LAE), the total amount in all the trust funds that is avail- able during the fiscal year for the purpose of administering various -- p T DL 6. C=mp. Goa

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