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GAO-22-105625 1 (2022-06-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaonhl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States June 28, 2022 The Honorable Kiran A. Ahuja Director Office of Personnel Management 1900 E Street, NW Washington, DC 20415-1000 Priority Open Recommendations: Office of Personnel Management Dear Ms. Ahuja: The purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your personal attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2021, we reported that, on a government-wide basis, 76 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 OPM's recommendation implementation rate was about 56 percent. As of May 2022, OPM had 68 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve both OPM's operations and its efforts to assist federal agencies in addressing various human capital management issues. Since our July 2021 letter, OPM has implemented two of our 14 open priority recommendations. OPM gathered and tracked government-wide data on the use of Title 5 special payment authorities to recruit and retain certain employees, as we recommended in December 2017.3 OPM also obtained agencies' input on changes needed to improve the effectiveness of the authorities. OPM said it used this information to address staffing difficulties by, for example, proposing legislation in March 2022 to raise the limit on special payment rates in situations where the market pay for high-skilled positions is substantially above the current pay limits. 1Priority open recommendations are those that GAO believes warrant priority attention from heads of key departments or agencies. They are highlighted because, upon implementation, they may significantly improve government operations, for example, by realizing large dollar savings; eliminating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse; or making progress toward addressing a high-risk or fragmentation, overlap, or duplication issue. 2GAO, Performance and Accountability Report Fiscal Year 2021, GAO-22-4SP (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 15, 2021). 3GAO, Federal Pay: Opportunities Exist to Enhance Strategic Use of Special Payments, GAO-18-91 (Washington, D.C.: Dec. 7, 2017). GAO-22-105625 OPM Priority Recommendations Page 1

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