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094478 1 (1969-05-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadxlw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY Expected at 10:00 a.m.EST Monday, May 12, 1969 STATEMENT OF EMER B. STAATS, COMPTROIWR GNERAL OF THE UNITED STATES BEFO.RE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON ECONOMY IN GOVERNMENT JOINT ECONOMIC COMMITEE, UNITED STATES SENATE i73 0 ON' YIDELI; FOR ESTIMATING THE BEUEFTTS OF PUBLIC EXPNDTTURES- Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: We are pleased to appear before your Subcommittee to express our views on the importance of measuring the benefits desired from federally funded programs. We know that your committee has done much to demonstrate the need for more accurate information in this field so that the potential value of program-budgeting can be realized more fully. We were pleased to appear before your Subcommittee in January 1968 to report on the results of our survey of discounting practices in the Federal agencies. We have followed with interest your subsequent efforts to improve understanding of these important matters. In the area of measurement of social program benefits, many concep- tual and analytical problems remain unsolved. As a result, planning- programming-budgeting (PPB) has not yielded the full range of improve- ments in decision making which its proponents eypected when it was launched by the President in August 1965. Measurements and Goals We believe that the lack of agreement as to how social or public benefits are to be measured is a major reason why departments and agencies have not made more use of the PPB system. In effect PPB was proposed on 9o/~~

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