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Social Security Administration: Agency Must Position Itself Now to Meet Profound Challenges

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date May 2, 2002
Report No. GAO-02-289T
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Summary:

The Social Security Administration (SSA) provided $450 billion in benefits to 50 million recipients in fiscal year 2001. Since 1995, when SSA became an independent agency, GAO has called for effective leadership and sustained management attention to several unresolved management challenges, including the redesign of its disability claims process, management and oversight problems with its SSI program, future service delivery demands, and implementing its information technology and research and policy development capacity. SSA has much more to do and will need to take bolder action or make more fundamental changes to existing programs.

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