1. Providing timely, accurate, and useful information and services to the public

2. Making disability determinations more timely and accurate;

3. Reducing long-term disability benefits because people return to workplace;

4. Providing timely information to decision makers to address program policy issues such as long-term trust fund solvency; and

5. Reducing fraud, waste, and error in the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program.

The report focused on (1) progress that the Social Security Administration (SSA) in achieving these outcomes and the strategies implemented; (2) comparison of SSA's fiscal year 2000 to fiscal year 2002 performance plan including major management challenges, which includes high-risk areas of strategic human capital management and information security identified by SSA's inspector general and the SSA.

The Social Security Administration provides benefits for retirees, survivors, disability claimants as well as supplemental security income for the poor or needy. In administer

The goal of reducing fraud, waste, and error in the SSI program; SSA reported

Social Security has been widely criticized in the GAO report for not doing enough to reducing fraud, waste and error in this program as well as the disability program. The billions of dollars flowing from the coffers of SSA is staggering for the individual to comprehend. While the Social Security retirement program is funded from social security taxes paid by employees and employers, the general fund is tapped for the payments of the other programs. With so many claimants and so much money flowing, it is easily to see that fraud would be rampant in the social security system. Many States are now cracking down on fraud, but is it enough? The GAO states that more could be done in this area and the average citizen would agree. The SSA website now has information to report fraud by an 800-number, fax or email. This appears to be an easy solution to report fraud by the general public, but the actual investigations and results are not so easily obtained on the website. The Agency strives to make the process simple for retirees and survivors, but in doing so the propensity for fraud abounds.

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