The Social Security Administration is now releasing weekly reports on what it is doing with the extra funding provided the agency under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the President's economic recovery plan. Here are a few points from the most recent report:
- Trying to submit a plan to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) by April 10;
- Plans to send out a mailer late in April to those eligible for the $250 payments under ARRA;
- Plans to schedule a call with OMB to discuss a draft disability and retirement workload plan.
Interestingly, an earlier report mentioned a plan to post job openings under ARRA competitively using the USAJobs website. If this is being done, Social Security is doing almost no hiring under ARRA. However, it is clear from the reports that it is full speed ahead on the National Computer Center.
I guess that's no surprise. Hiring is not on this COSS's agenda. Grrr.
ReplyDeleteAt least in the field offices we have hired and most of the new employees reported last Monday. To say that hiring is not on the COSS agenda is certainly not true. We have been told another allocation of hires is due to the field offices shortly. I don't recall the total number of hires but it was substantial.
ReplyDeleteI don't call a few thousand hires adequate and I don't consider a few hundred new people per region significant. Having said that, any agenda that does not include many more hires is unacceptable.
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