- GENERAL RECOVERY ACT IMPLEMENTATION
- ONE-TIME ECONOMIC RECOVERY PAYMENTS (ERP)
- Certified 6,771,576 cycle 3 Economic Recovery Payments on 5/6/09 that will be issued on 5/21/09 totaling $1,692,893,000.
- Issued 24,260,188 cycle 1 Economic Recovery Payments to bank accounts and mail boxes across the country on 5/7/09 totaling $6,065,047,000.
- REPLACE THE NATIONAL COMPUTER CENTER (NCC)
- ADDITIONAL DISABILITY AND RETIREMENT WORKLOADS
- Hired a total of 196 employees in the Office of Disability and Adjudication Review from 3/12/09 - 5/8/09 - Atlanta (70), Chicago (20), Dallas (17), Denver (4), Kansas City (9), New York (11), Philadelphia (15), San Francisco (45), Seattle (5).
- Hired a total of 1,501 employees in the Office of Operations from 3/12/09 - 5/8/09 - Atlanta (430), Boston (23), Chicago (191), Dallas (146), Denver (29), Kansas City (54), New York (106), Office of Central Operations (154), Philadelphia (139, San Francisco (192), Seattle (37).
- Hired 265 employees in the State Disability Determination Services - Atlanta (118), Boston (5), Chicago (41), Dallas (17), Denver (1), Kansas City (5), New York (2),Office of Central Operations (O), Philadelphia (31), San Francisco (28), Seattle (17).
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- GENERAL RECOVERY ACT IMPLEMENTATION
- Waiting for GSA approval of Atom 1.0 feed SSA established.
- Expecting to have the Agency-wide and three Program Plans finalized by 5/15/09.
- ONE-TIME ECONOMIC RECOVERY PAYMENTS (ERP)
- Planning to issue 6,875,171 cycle 2 payments totaling $1,718,792,750 on 5/14/09.
- Continuing Supplemental Security Income validation efforts.
- Continuing the development of "catch-up" and reissue run requirements.
- Planning to certify the SSI payments on 5/9/09 and issue ERPs to SSI recipients on 5/18/09.
- Continuing to validate post issuance items with the Department of Treasury.
- Planning to certify cycle 4 of OASDI ERP payment files on 5/13/09 and issue payments to beneficiaries on 5/28/09.
- REPLACE THE NATIONAL COMPUTER CENTER (NCC)
- Meeting with GSA Sprint Start, their construction management firm, and SSA on 5/13.
- Evaluating potential IT Consulting firms for an award the first week of June.
- ADDITIONAL DISABILITY AND RETIREMENT WORKLOADS
- Drafting pre-solicitation communications for the Health Information Technology (IT) ARRA-funded request for proposals.
- Drafting a Federal Times article that will include discussion on Health IT issues funded through ARRA.
- Preparing presentations on ARRA-funded Health IT initiatives to be presented at the Disability Determination Service Forum the week of 5/18/09.
- Continuing to hire Operations, ODAR and State DDS employees, including 35 Administrative Law Judges.
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