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HEHS-99-43R 1 (1999-01-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacrdp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Health, Education, and Human Services Division B-281813 January 22, 1999 The Honorable Russell D. Feingold United States Senate Subject: Social Security Administration: Compliance With Presidential Directive to Reduce Management-to-Staff Ratio Dear Senator Feingold: This correspondence responds to your request that we determine the measures taken by the Social Security Administration (SSA) in response to President Clinton's September 1993 directive to federal departments and agencies to implement a National Performance Review (NPR) recommendation.' The NPR recommendation was designed to reduce the overall management-to-staff ratio throughout federal departments and agencies from 1-to-7 to 1-to-15 by the end of fiscal year 1999.2 In response to your request, we (1) determined the progress SSA has made to date in achieving the directive to reduce its management-to- staff ratio, particularly for staff graded GS-12 and above, and (2) identified the steps SSA has taken to reduce the number of supervisory positions. We obtained information for this correspondence through interviews with and documentation from SSA and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) officials, reviews of relevant NPR reports, and data obtained from SSA's Human Resources Management Information System. We conducted our review from September through December 1998 in accordance with generally accepted government auditing standards. However, we did not independently verify the SSA data used in this correspondence. 'The NPR began in March 1993 when President Clinton announced a 6-month review of the federal government to identify ways to improve government operations. This NPR report contained 384 recommendations covering various aspects of government activities. NPR continues today; however, it is now referred to as the National Partnership for Reinventing Government. 2The terms management-to-staff ratio and supervisor-to-staff ratio are used interchangeably by NPR and SSA. GAO/HEHS-99-43R SSA Management-to-Staff Ratio

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