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Social Security Administration: Effective Leadership Needed to Meet Daunting Challenges

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Sept. 12, 1996
Report No. HEHS-96-196
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Summary:

With a staff of 64,000, the Social Security Administration (SSA) runs the nation's largest federal program--social security--as well as the largest cash welfare program--supplemental security income. SSA's expenditures totaled $363 billion in fiscal year 1995, nearly one-fourth of the $1.5 trillion federal budget. SSA programs touch the lives of nearly every American, providing benefits to the retired, the disabled, and their dependents and survivors. This report, which is based on July 1995 testimony before Congress (GAO/T-OCG-96-7), discusses SSA's progress in meeting the challenges of managing for results and accountability; funding future retirement benefits; rethinking supplemental security income fraud, waste, and abuse; handling increasing workloads with fewer resources; and establishing effective leadership.

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