- GENERAL RECOVERY ACT IMPLEMENTATION
- ONE-TIME ECONOMIC RECOVERY PAYMENTS (ERP)
- Printed and mailed all 52 million English and Spanish language versions of the ARRA payment notices as of 4/24/09.
- Completed development and testing of the Old Age Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) payment selection process.
- Completed OASDI interagency phase 1 validation with the Department of Treasury using a 3 phase, end-to-end validation.
- Received an SSI test offset file from the Department of Treasury which was processed to the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) master record.
- Sent a request for testing returned checks to Treasury.
- Completed a full test of the SSI Economic Recovery Payments run.
- Completed the certification of the first ERP payments. SSA certified 20,752,318 direct deposit payments for $5,188,079,500 and 3,507,870 check payments for $876,967,500. The grand total was 24,260,188 payments for $6,065,047,000.
- REPLACE THE NATIONAL COMPUTER CENTER (NCC)
- Met with GSA to review the site criteria for the National Support Center on 4/23/09.
- ADDITIONAL DISABILITY AND RETIREMENT WORKLOADS
- Hired 72 employees in the Office Of Disability and Adjudication Review - Atlanta (32), Chicago (8), Dallas (3), Kansas City (1), Philadelphia (5), San Francisco (20), Seattle (3);
- Hired 1,404 employees in the Office of Operations - Atlanta (363), Boston (24), Chicago (185), Dallas (165), Denver (29), Kansas City (38), New York (87), Office of Central Operations (154), Philadelphia (91), San Francisco (231), Seattle (37).
- Hired 236 employees in the State Disability Determination Services - Atlanta (118), Boston (5), Chicago (13), Dallas (17), Kansas City (5), New York (2), Philadelphia (31), San Francisco (28), Seattle (17)
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- GENERAL RECOVERY ACT IMPLEMENTATION
- Preparing for the scheduled testimony of SSA's Senior Accountable Official with the House Committee on Ways and Means on 4/28/09 to discuss the projects the agency will undertake with funds appropriated through ARRA.
- Continuing to incorporate OMB comments into the One-Time Economic Recovery Payments, Disability and Retirement Workload, and National Support Center program plans, as well as the Agency-wide Recovery Act plan.
- Planning to submit drafts of the Agency-wide and three program plans to OMB by 5/1/09.
- Waiting for GSA approval on Atom 1.0 feed that SSA established. Requested that OMB/GSA develop a standardized Atom schema.
- ONE-TIME ECONOMIC RECOVERY PAYMENTS (ERP)
- Continuing to discuss an SSI validation test plan with the Department of Treasury.
- Scheduling cycle 1 OASDI payment certification on 4/25/09 with cycle 1 ERP payments delivered to the Department of Treasury on 4/27/09.
- Continuing development of catch-up and reissue run requirements.
- Expecting the Department of Treasury file to be returned to SSA on 4/30/09 for the third phase end-to-end validation.
- Creating a Spanish language message about the affect the $250 payment has on Part D Prescription Drug Program extra help.
- Validating Phase 2 OASDI .
- REPLACE THE NATIONAL COMPUTER CENTER (NCC)
- Incorporating OMB's comments received 4/22/09 into the draft National Computer Center program plan.
- Continuing to work with GSA to develop the program requirements.
- ADDITIONAL DISABILITY AND RETIREMENT WORKLOADS
- Continuing to hire Operations, ODAR and State DDS employees, including 35 Administrative Law Judges.
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