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Financial Status

Weekly Progress
Source: Agency Financial and Activity Report
as of 2009-05-06
Financial and Activity Report

Report Date: 2009-05-01View History

 Financial Status:
  • Total Available: $29,582,184
  • Total Paid Out: $10,853,780
 Major Actions Taken to Date:
  • GENERAL RECOVERY ACT IMPLEMENTATION
  • Addressed first round of OMB staff comments in the Agency plan.
  • Attended a House Ways and Means Subcommittee Hearing on SSA Recovery Act funding.
  • Agreed on a monthly reporting cycle with the House Ways and Means Subcommittee starting June 15, 2009.
  • Participated in Weekly Financial and Activity report focus group.
  • ONE-TIME ECONOMIC RECOVERY PAYMENTS (ERP)
  • Finalized language to include in a "catch-up" letter mailing.
  • Certified payment cycle 2 for Economic Recovery Payments: 6,875,171 payments for a total of $1,718,792,750.
  • Addressed OMB concerns regarding Army and Fleet post office box addresses.
  • Addressed first round of OMB staff comments in the program-specific plan.
  • Processed the test offset file from Treasury to the SSI Master Record.
  • Worked with the vendor on National 800 Number Network call routing and information updates.
  • REPLACE THE NATIONAL COMPUTER CENTER (NCC)
  • ADDITIONAL DISABILITY AND RETIREMENT WORKLOADS
  • Hired 100 employees in the Office of Disability and Adjudication Review - Atlanta (34), Chicago (11), Dallas (10), Denver (3), Kansas City (3), New York (1), Philadelphia (10), San Francisco (24), Seattle (4);
  • Hired 1,510 employees in the Office of Operations - Atlanta (395), Boston (24), Chicago (186), Dallas (165), Denver (29), Kansas City (39), New York (105), Office of Central Operations (154), Philadelphia (145), San Francisco (230), Seattle (38).
  • 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)
  • Addressed first round of OMB staff comments in the program-specific plan.
  • Named a Special Advisor for Health Information Technology (HIT) to provide leadership and oversight for all of SSA's HIT initiatives.
 Major Planned Actions:
  • GENERAL RECOVERY ACT IMPLEMENTATION
  • Waiting for GSA approval on Atom 1.0 feed that SSA established. Requested that OMB/GSA develop a standardized Atom schema.
  • Waiting for OMB comments on our second drafts submitted on May 1.
  • Expecting to have all plans finalized by May 15.
  • ONE-TIME ECONOMIC RECOVERY PAYMENTS (ERP)
  • Continuing SSI validation efforts.
  • Creating a Spanish language message about the affect the $250 payment has on Part D Prescription Drug Program extra help.
  • Continuing development of catch-up and reissue run requirements.
  • Validating Phase 2 OASDI .
  • Preparing to start Phase 3 OASDI validation.
  • Planning to mail a "catch-up" mailing notice.
  • Issuing the first round of payments May 7.
  • 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.
  • Developing Health Information Technology objectives and goals.

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