Social Security Administration
Effective Leadership Needed to Meet Daunting Challenges Gao ID: T-OCG-96-7 July 25, 1996With a staff of 64,000, the Social Security Administration (SSA) runs the largest federal program--Social Security--as well as the largest cash welfare program--Supplemental Security Income. The agency's expenditures totaled $363 billion in fiscal year 1995, almost one-fourth of the $1.5 trillion federal budget. This testimony discusses the difficult challenges facing SSA in the coming decades: taking part in the debate over future financing of Social Security; encouraging disability recipients to return to work; reducing fraud and abuse; and managing workforce and technology investments so that it can meet the needs of America's retired, disabled, and poor.