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HRD-80-5 1 (1979-10-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaazut0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ; A *k I~ 166A01 UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION B-164031 (4) OCTOBER 16, 1979 The Honorable Patricia Roberts Harris 9- The Secretary of Health, Education, A4,0C and Welfare 110606 Dear Mrs. Harris: Subject: The Social Security Administration Needs To Develop a Structured and Planned Approach for Managing and Controlling the Design, Development, and Modification of Its Supple- mental Security Income Computerized System (HRD-80-5) In our August 9, 1979, report Flaws in Controls Over the Supplemental Security Income Computerized System Cause Millions in Erroneous Payments (HRD-79-104), we disclosed that $25 million of erroneous payments have occurred because of control weaknesses in the Social Security Administra- tion's (SSA's) Supplemental Security Income (SSI) computer- ized system. This system is used to help maintain benefi- ciary information and administer benefit payments to over 4 million needy aged, blind, and disabled individuals. ,Weaknesses result because SSA lacks a structured and planned approach for managing and controlling the design, development, and modification of its computerized systems/ ,4:-4 Instead/ SA follows an unstructured, often hurried approacF that resu ts in --incomplete computer program and system documentation; --unvalidated and uncontrolled system modifications; and --unmet field office users' needs. (105013)

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