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Federal Hiring: Does Veterans' Preference Need Updating?

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date March 20, 1992
Report No. GGD-92-52
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Summary:

The Veterans' Preference Act of 1944 requires federal agencies to give veterans preferential treatment in hiring as a way of thanking them for defending the United States. GAO found that while preference points and rankings have been correctly applied in veterans' applications, veterans are often not hired. Agency officials passed over almost 80 percent of the veterans ranked first on Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and executive agency certificates and instead chose no one--a practice allowed by existing civil service laws and regulations. OPM does not know why certificates are often returned without anyone being selected nor does it know why differences in veteran hiring patterns occur among agencies. Congress may wish to pursue this matter further after hiring patterns are more fully known and analyzed.

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