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Source: Agency Financial and Activity Report
as of 2009-08-12

Financial and Activity Report


Report Date: 2009-08-07View History

 Financial Status:
  • Total Available: $13,112,447,216
  • Total Paid Out: $13,100,977,201
 Major Actions Taken to Date:
  • GENERAL RECOVERY ACT IMPLEMENTATION
  • ONE-TIME ECONOMIC RECOVERY PAYMENTS (ERP)
  • Certified 52,405,894 payments to date, totaling $13,101,473,500 as of 8/7/09. Certified 22,020 payments that have not yet been paid amounting to $5,505,000.
  • Received 155,797 credits from Treasury for returned/cancelled payments totaling $38,949,201.95. Received returned personal check and money order payments for 443 payments totaling $110,750.00.
  • Issued 8,208 Prouty payments to uninsured persons who reached age 72 before 1968. 6,936 credits were received from Treasury for returned/cancelled Prouty payments with 1,272 Prouty payments outstanding. Only 131 Prouty payments were cashed.
  • REPLACE THE NATIONAL COMPUTER CENTER (NCC)
  • Received OMB's written concurrence on GSA's site selection process for the National Support Center on 8/5/09.
  • Submitted letters to the Committees on Appropriations for both the House and Senate on 8/6/09 as part of the next step in the site selection notification process.
  • ADDITIONAL DISABILITY AND RETIREMENT WORKLOADS
  • Hired 584 Office of Disability and Adjudicaton Review employees (99.8% of goal): Atl (141) (+6); Bos (30); Chi (64) (-1); Dal (87); Den (6); (KC (16); NY (32); Phil (70) (-2); SF (115) (+2); Seattle (23). (Total +5 from 7/31/09 report).
  • Hired 1,530 Office of Operations employees (100% of goal): Atlanta (446); Boston (23); Chicago (191; Dallas (146); Denver (29); KC (54); NY (106); Office of Central Operations (154); Phil (139); SF (192); Seattle (50). (Goal attained).
  • Hired 296 State Disability Determination Services employees (98.7% of goal): Atl (118); Bos (12); Chi (41); Dallas (17); Den (2); KC (5); NY (25); Office of Central Operations (0); Phil (31); SF (28); Seattle (17). (No change from 7/31/09 report).
  • Presented our role in using HIT to improve service for disability claiments, including benefits for health care providers and our vision of when HIT is fully implemented, to the Georgia Health Information Management Association on 8/5-7/09,
  • Issued an ARRA-funded Request for Proposals 8/7/09 on FedBizOpps, for health care providers, provider networks and health information exchanges to participate in Social Security's Medical Evidence Gathering and Analysis through health IT program.
  • Issued a press release in conjunction with the Request for Proposal announcing the availability of $24 million in ARRA-funded health IT contracts.
 Major Planned Actions:
  • GENERAL RECOVERY ACT IMPLEMENTATION
  • ONE-TIME ECONOMIC RECOVERY PAYMENTS (ERP)
  • Repeating the match of potential eligibles for each "catch-up" run to ensure that duplicate payments do not result from the "catch-up" run process.
  • Scheduling the next OASDI certification for 8/29/09 with payment on 9/10/09.
  • REPLACE THE NATIONAL COMPUTER CENTER (NCC)
  • Posting by GSA of the expression of interest on FEDBIZOPPS from 8/17/09 through 8/31/09, following the 10-day waiting period for notifying House and Senate Appropriations Committees.
  • Hosting a webinar for an audience of provider, provider networks, and health information exchanges on 8/11/09, to provide background on how and why we use medical records and our technical specifications.
  • ADDITIONAL DISABILITY AND RETIREMENT WORKLOADS

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