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Date June 14, 2010 Report No. GAO-10-804R Title

Tax Policy and Administration: GAO Proactive Testing of ARRA Tax Credits for COBRA Premium Payments

United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 June 14, 2010 The Honorable Mitch McConnell Republican Leader United States Senate The Honorable Joseph Lieberman Chairman The Honorable Susan M. Collins Ranking Member Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs United States Senate The Honorable Charles Grassley Ranking Member Committee on Finance United States Senat...
Date May 6, 2010 Report No. GAO-10-692T Title

Unemployment Insurance Trust Funds: Long-standing State Financing Policies Have Increased Risk of Insolvency

United States Government Accountability Office GAO For Release on Delivery Expected at 10:00 a.m. EDT Thursday, May 6, 2010 Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE TRUST FUNDS Long-standing State Financing Policies Have Increased Risk of Insolvency Statement of Andrew Sherrill, Director Ed...
Date April 14, 2010 Report No. GAO-10-440 Title

Unemployment Insurance Trust Funds: Long-standing State Financing Policies Have Increased Risk of Insolvency

United States Government Accountability Office GAO April 2010 Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE TRUST FUNDS Long-standing State Financing Policies Have Increased Risk of Insolvency GAO-10-440 April 2010 UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE TRUST FUNDS Highlights Highlights of GAO-10-440, a repo...
Date July 27, 2009 Report No. GAO-09-942R Title

Financial Management: Unemployment Insurance Measures Included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, as of July 2009

United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 July 27, 2009 The Honorable Mitch McConnell Republican Leader United States Senate Subject: Unemployment Insurance Measures Included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, as of July 2009 Dear Senator McConnell: This letter is in response to your request to provide information on measures in the American Recovery a...
Date March 15, 2006 Report No. GAO-06-484T Title

Unemployment Insurance: Factors Associated with Benefit Receipt and Linkages with Reemployment Services for Claimants

United States Government Accountability Office GAO For Release on Delivery Expected at 2:00 p.m. EST Wednesday, March 15, 2006 Testimony before the Subcommittee on Human Resources, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE Factors Associated with Benefit Receipt and Linkages with Reemployment Services for Claimants Statement of Sigurd R. Nilsen, Director, Educati...
Date March 7, 2006 Report No. GAO-06-341 Title

Unemployment Insurance: Factors Associated with Benefit Receipt

United States Government Accountability Office GAO March 2006 Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Human Resources, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE Factors Associated with Benefit Receipt GAO-06-341 March 2006 UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE Highlights Highlights of GAO-06-341, a report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Human Resources, Committee on Ways and M...
Date March 17, 2005 Report No. GAO-05-291 Title

Unemployment Insurance: Information on Benefit Receipt

United States Government Accountability Office GAO March 2005 Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on Human Resources, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE Information on Benefit Receipt GAO-05-291 Contents Letter Appendix I Briefing Slides 1 5 Appendix II Confidence Intervals for Estimated Numbers of UIEligible Spells of Unemployment and UI Receipt Spells 3...
Date Oct. 28, 1999 Report No. AIMD-00-28R Title

Information Management: Reported Y2K Readiness of State Employment Security Agencies' Unemployment Insurance Benefits and Tax Systems

GAO B-283929 AcountabiRy *hitlty * belablty United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Accounting and Information Management Division October 28, 1999 The Honorable William F. Goodling Chairman Committee on Education and the Workforce The Honorable Howard "Buck" McKeon Chairman, Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training and Lifelong Learning Committee on Education and the...
Date Dec. 18, 1998 Report No. GGD-99-13R Title

Government Operations: Unemployment Insurance for Temporary Census Employees

GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 General Government Division B-279597 December 18,1998 The Honorable Fred Thompson Chairman, Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate Subject: Unemnlovment Insurance for Temnorarv Census Emplovees Dear Mr. Chairman: Like other federal agencies, the Bureau of the Census is financially responsible for the unemployment in...
Date Aug. 5, 1996 Report No. HEHS-96-101 Title

Unemployment Insurance: Millions in Benefits Overpaid to Military Reservists

United States General Accounting Office GAO August 1996 Report to the Honorable Patricia Schroeder, House of Representatives UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE Millions in Benefits Overpaid to Military Reservists G A O years 1921 - 1996 GAO/HEHS-96-101 GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Health, Education, and Human Services Division B-258100 August 5, 1996 The Honorable Patrici...
Date Sept. 28, 1993 Report No. HRD-93-107 Title

Unemployment Insurance: Program's Ability to Meet Objectives Jeopardized

Sq)twIllwr l!J!U i UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE Program’s Ability to Meet Objectives Jeopardized ill II11 llllll1ll 149904 (;Ao/IlfCI)-!w 107 i GAO United States General Accounting OfTice Washington, D.C. 20548 Human Resources Division B-263406 September 28,1993 The Honorable Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chairman, Committee on Finance United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: In response to a request from th...
Date Dec. 1, 1992 Report No. OCG-93-19TR Title

Employment: Labor Issues

I I r’ lD&OJ’ * United States General Accounting Office ~ GAO Transition Series December 1992 Labor Issues ,, . .’ ‘. ., ,, ,” ‘ .,I : I . . ,,I ,I ‘ 8, III II lllllllllll 148263 I, ” ‘ 9, ,, : ,. .. ,‘ I, :.,: ; ‘ . .’ : 4 * GAO/OCG-93-19TR J1 ,, 8, M 663 ,’ J , ‘ , i I.. _ ,, I. ;. , ” ‘ ,, .!’ j . ,, i , ..I ‘ , ,c. ,. ,I , % _’ :> , .;., , ,: .: > ;. ., .(...
Date April 28, 1992 Report No. HRD-92-34R Title

Education: Declining UI Recipiency

. April 28, 1992 The Honorable Lloyd Bentsen Chairman, Committee on Finance United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman : Although 97 percent of all wage and salary workers are covered under the Unemployment Insurance (VI) program, the proportion of the unemployed who receive UI benefits has declined by one-fifth between 1975 and 1991. The decline in UI. recipiency has been widely reported, raising fea...
Date March 8, 1991 Report No. HRD-91-56 Title

Workers At Risk: Increased Numbers in Contingent Employment Lack Insurance, Other Benefits

5 . 0 rt 1 _ _ _ .-._. __. ._ ._---..-_.---~ --_ --- a GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC. 20548 Human Resources Division B-243137 March 8, 1991 The Honorable Tom Lantos Chairman, Subcommittee on Employment and Housing Committee on Government Operations House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: In your letter of January 10,1990, you asked us to undertake a study of the co...
Date Feb. 20, 1991 Report No. T-HRD-91-7 Title

Unemployment Insurance: Adequacy of State Trust Fund Reserves

United States General Accounting Office Testimony For Release On Deliverv Exoected at 1O:OO a.m. EST Wednesdav Februarv 20, 1991 UNFAPLOYMENT INSURANCE: State Trust Fund Reserves Adeauacv OF Statement of r,abrence 3. Thompson Assistant Comotroller General Human Resources Division Before the Subcommittee on Human Resources Committee on Ways and Means House of Representatives GAO/T-HRD-91-I GAOPormI...
Date May 31, 1990 Report No. HRD-90-124 Title

Unemployment Insurance: Trust Fund Reserves Inadequate to Meet Recession Needs

l ’ United States General Accounting Office GAO May 1990 Report to the Acting Chairman, Subcommittee on Human Resources, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives . UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE Trust l?und Reserves Inadequate to Meet RecessionNeeds GAO/HRD-90-124 c GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Human Resources Division B-239714 May 31, 1990 The Honorabl...
Date May 3, 1990 Report No. HRD-90-42 Title

Railroad Retirement Board: Internal Controls for Unemployment Program Improving, but Gaps Remain

Iv ;ry I !)!)(I RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD Internal Controls for Unemployment Program Improving, but Gaps Remain w ---- GAO/IIHI)-W-412 GAO ,United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20648 Human Resources Division B-239100 May 3,199O The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy Chairman, Committee on Labor and Human Resources United States Senate The Honorable Lloyd Ben&en Chairman, Committee on ...
Date Feb. 24, 1989 Report No. HRD-89-27FS Title

Health Insurance: Bibliography of Studies on Health Benefits for the Uninsured

United States General Ace&ding Office GAO February 1989 Fact Sheet for the Chairman, Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate a HEALTH INSURANCE Bibliography of Studies on Health Benefits for the Uninsured , GAO/HRD-89-27FS About Our New Cover... The new color of our report covers represents the latest step in GAO'S efforts to improve the presentation of our reports. United States General Accounting Offi...
Date Sept. 26, 1988 Report No. HRD-88-55 Title

Unemployment Insurance: Trust Fund Reserves Inadequate

United States General Accounting Office -- .- GAO September 1988 Report to Congressional Committees UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE Trust Fund Reserves Inadequate GAO/HRD-88-55 / Human Resources Division B-205079 September 26, 1988 The Honorable Lloyd Bentsen Chairman, Committee on Finance United States Senate The Honorable Tom Lantos Chairman, Subcommittee on Employment and Housing Committee on Government...
Date Dec. 14, 1987 Report No. T-HRD-88-6 Title

Unemployment Insurance: Issues Relating to the Reserve Adequacy and Trust Fund Solvency

United Statis General Accounting OfIke I Testimony ,, For Release on Delivery Elrpected at 1O:OO a.m. EST Monday December 14, 1987 UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE: Issues Relating to Reserve Adequacy .,. I and Trust Fund Solvency __"., 1 : Statement of William J. Gainer, Associate Human Resources Division Director Before the Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation Committee on Ways ...
Date Dec. 19, 1986 Report No. GGD-87-17 Title

Unemployment Compensation: Payments to Ineligible Former Employees

United States Eeneral,Accounting Office GAO December 1986 Report to the Honorable David H. Pryor United States Senate UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION Payments to Ineligible Fomer Employees GAO United States General Accounting Washington, General Office D.C. 2064.8 Division Government B-221637 December 19, 1986 The Honorable David H. Pryor United States Senate Dear Senator Pryor: This report is a follow-...
Date March 5, 1986 Report No. HRD-86-73FS Title

Railroad Retirement: Size, Nature, and Funding Sources

Fact Sheet for the Chairman, Committee on the Budget, United ‘StatesSenate March lW% ,,, ,RAILROAII RETIREMENT 1’ Size,Nature, and Funding Sources 129457 - GA I, --mm--.-- - - UNITED STAXS GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTCBN, D.C. 20548 HUMAN R#SOlJRCU DlVISION March 5, 1986 R-222204 The Honorable Pete V. Domenici Chairman, Committee on the Budget United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: In a...
Date May 21, 1985 Report No. HRD-85-31 Title

A Central Wage File for Use by Federal Agencies: Benefits and Concerns

Report To The Chairman RELEASED Subcommittee On Social Security Committee On Ways And Means House Of Representatives A Central Wage File For Use By Federal Agencies: Benefits And Concerns In over 100 federal welfare, insurance, and disability programs, eligibility for billions of dollars of benefits depends primarily on the accuracy of an individual’s reported wages. However, because of the lack...
Date Feb. 27, 1985 Report No. HRD-85-37 Title

Income Security: Need To Improve Internal Controls To Curtail Fraud and Abuse in the RRB Unemployment and Sickness Insurance Program

I&WED STATES GENERAL ACCCWNT~NG OFFICE wMwm&mON,D.C. 20548 NUMAN RWURCIWI DlVlSloN B-211212 c FEBRUARY 27,1986 The Honorable Robert Gielow Chairman Railroad Retirement Board Dear Mr. Gielow: 126303 Subject: Need.'to Improve Internal Controls 'Lo Curtail ~'Possfbli# Fraud and Abuse in the Railmad 'I, 88 ReCi~ament Bo~ard's Unemployment and Sickness Insurance Program (GAO/HRD-85-37) We have complete...
Date March 30, 1984 Report No. HRD-84-26 Title

Income Security: An Assessment of Random Audit--A New Department of Labor Program To Improve the Accuracy of Unemployment Insurance Benefit Payments

BYTHEUS GENERALACCOUNTING OFFICE Report To The Secretary Of Labor An Assessment Of Random Audit-A New Depart’me’nt Of Labor Program To Improve The Accuracy Of Unemployment insurance Benefit Payments The Labor Department estimated that in fiscal year 1983 more than 15 million persons received over $29 billion in jobless benefits from the Unemployment Insurance system. To help assure that the st...
Date Aug. 24, 1983 Report No. GGD-83-99 Title

Government Operations: Computer Matches Identify Potential Unemployment Benefit Overpayments

EY THEU.S GENERALACCOUNTING OFFICE Report To The Honorable David Pryor United States Senate Computer Matches Identify Potential Unemployment Benefit Overpayments District of Columbia and Virgrnia unemploy ment officials have tentatrvely confirmed that 2.71 of the 492 persons (55 percent) GAO identified through computer matches improperly received over $730,000 in unemployment benefits. These perso...
Date Oct. 29, 1982 Report No. FPCD-83-3 Title

Government Operations: Federal Agencies' Unemployment Compensation Costs Can Be Reduced Through Improved Management

General Accounting Office Federal Agencies’ Unemployment ~ompensation Costs Can Be Reduced F hrough Improved Management $ A0 reviewed unemployment payments to 46 former employees from four agencies. Nearly half (107) of the employees had been improperly authorized to receive as much as 6419,000 in District of Columbia unemployment payments. These former employees were not eligible fpr unemployme...
Date Jan. 12, 1982 Report No. FPCD-82-15 Title

Government Operations: Ex-Service Member Eligibility for Unemployment Compensation

. : * GENERAL OF THE DC. UNITED STATES 20S48 II,SfB cOMP-,-ROLLER RELEASED ~mTr?rCTEB) WASHINGTON -f&d tQ b@ M~s~x! outside the General ~-205735 JANUARY l&1982 The Honorable Sam Gejdenson House of Representatives Dear Mr. Gejdenson: Subject: .; .Ex-Service Kember Eligibility Unemployment Compensation for f(FPCD-82-15) This responds to your September 15, 1981, request that we provide you with infor...
Date Nov. 10, 1981 Report No. HRD-82-10 Title

Employment: Labor Needs To Improve Its Oversight of New Hampshire's Denials of Unemployment Insurance Benefits

Rdport To The Secretary Of Labor bor Needs To improve Its Oversight f New Hampshire’sDenials Of l@employment Insurance Benefits T e Oepartment of Labor, through its Empl yment and Training Administration’s Offi e of Unemployment Insurance, is responsibe for assuring that States operate an effecti e and efficient unemployment insurance ogram, including the prompt payment of nefits to eligible i...
Date July 31, 1981 Report No. CED-81-117 Title

Agriculture and Food: Insights Gained in Workfare Demonstration Projects

Report To The Honorable Paul Findley House Of Representatives Insights Gained In Workfare Demonstration Projects The Food Stamp Act of 1977 authorized the Secretaries of Agriculture and Labor to test, in 14 pilot projects, the feasibility of food stamp participants working in return for their benefits. Operation of the workfare demonstration during the first year provided valuable insight into the...
Date June 5, 1981 Report No. AFMD-81-51 Title

Income Security: Millions Can Be Saved by Improving the Productivity of State and Local Governments Administering Federal Income Maintenance Assistance Programs

BY THECOMPiROLLER GENERAL Report ToThe Congress OF THEUNITEDSTATES Millions Can Be Saved By Improving The Productivity Of State And Local Governments Administering Federal Income Maintenance Assistance Programs In thisreport,GAOidentifiesmillionsof dollars associated with the useof inefficient procedures in administering three Federal income maintenance assistance programs--Unemployment Insurance,...
Date Jan. 15, 1980 Report No. HRD-80-11 Title

Employment: Restricting Trade Act Benefits to Import-Affected Workers Who Cannot Find a Job Can Save Millions

APPENDIX IV TABLE 10 Average Layoff Time Lapse to Receipt Projection to adjusted universe Number of days Layoff to petition filing Petition filing to certification Certification to application Application to payment Overall: layoff to payment 221 112 87 68 488 for Workers from of First Check APPENDIX IV Estimated ranges of adjusted universe at the 95% level of confidence Number of days 194 to 248 ...
Date April 17, 1979 Report No. FGMSD-79-20 Title

Financial Management: More Effective Federal and State Cash Management Would Increase Interest Income of Unemployment Trust Fund

Report ToThe Congress OFTHEUNITEDSTATES M More Effective Federal And State Cash Management Would Increase Interest Income Of Unemploykent Trust Fund The Deparmnt of Labor’s ineffective rrwnitoring and guidance of State collections and disbursements of unemployment monies causes Federal and State govermnents to lose mil I ions of dollars in interest irwxne annually on Unemployment Trust Fund depo...
Date Oct. 31, 1978 Report No. HRD-78-153 Title

Health: Worker Adjustment Assistance Under the Trade Act of 1974 to New England Workers Has Been Primarily Income Maintenance

DOCUMENT RESUME 07899 C3068178] Worker Adjustment Assistance under the Trade Act cf 1974 to New England Workers Has Been Primarily Income aint.enance. HRD-78-153; B-152183. October 31, 1978. 25 pp. + 9 appendices (14 pp.). Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General. ith Financing laws and Issue Area: Health Programs: Ccmpliance (1207); Automatic Data Processing: User Regulatio...
Date Dec. 31, 1974 Report No. 089468 Title

Employment: Federal Unemployment Benefits Due to Agnes Disaster in Pennsylvania

WASHINGTON, DC 20548 MANPOWER AND DlVl5ION WEtFARE Mr. Fred G. Clark Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management Department of Labor Dear Mr. Clark. P' I/ We have made a survey of selected aspects of the administration of Federal unemployment compensatron benefits in Pennsylvania resulting from the effects of Tropical Storm Agnes which struck Pennsylvania and other Eastern States in June...
Date May 21, 1973 Report No. B-175012 Title

Financial Management: Study of the Local 295 Severance Trust Fund of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America

GOMPTRBLLER GENERAL WASHINGTON, OF THE DC. UNITED 205.48 STATES B-175012 B v d $&L.. I The Honorable Henry M. Jackson, Chairman, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Committee on Government Operations United States Senate Dear Mr, Chairman: 28, 1971, this is our Trust Fund of the Pnter5 \!P In response to your request of December report on our study of the Lo& 295 Severance national Brotherho...
Date April 25, 1969 Report No. 089447 Title

Employment: Policies and Procedures for Adjudication of Claimant and Employer Appeals

UNITED STATES GENERAL WASHINGT0N, ~CCQIMSING D C 20548 OFFICE CIVIL DIVlSlON Dear Mr. Weber in connection with benefit payments to unemployed persons under the unemployment Insurance program. The review was made at the reglonal manpower offlce In Boston, Massachusetts, and at the State employment security agencies In Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Under the procedures of the Manpower Admln...