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FPCD-83-1 1 (1983-04-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabdzl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -to to he P~rootsqE4W1#. ,go A% ASrkin, f'et exer oil the kbAwi *f 4 .f or t II I by Qzq : p5c& t 5tB REPDRT BY THE RELEASED Comptroller General OF THE UNITED STATES, Most Civil Service Disability Retirement Claims Are Decided Fairly, But Improvements Can Be Made GAO analyzed a sample of applications for benefits under the Office of Personnel Management disability retirement program for the 1 -year period ending March 4, 1982. At least 90 percent of OPM's decisions were consistent with program eligibility criteria. However, GAO believes that some improve- ments can be made. In particular OPM should develop better psychiatric criteria, use revised claims forms and instructions, and inform applicants of specific reasons for the denial of their initial claims. Additionally, in fiscal years 1981 and 1982, the Merit Systems Protection Board rev- ersed about 50 percent of the 1,172 appealed disability decisions. Although OPM has pro- posed some actions to alleviate this situa- tion, it needs further strategies for evaluat- ing and defending disability decisions that are appealed to the Board. OPM management already has made sub- stantial progress toward improving its dis- ability retirement program; it plans still further actions. OVD SZI ~ 121149 GAO/FPCD-83-1 APRIL 13, 1983

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