Social Security Disability

  • Subscribe to our RSS feed.
  • Twitter
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Facebook
  • Digg

Tuesday, 22 October 2013

SSA Has No Idea Whether The Billions It's Spent On IT Have Done Any Good

Posted on 03:00 by Unknown
     From a report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) (footnotes omitted):


Our objective was to determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) had achieved the planned cost savingsfor its information technology (IT) initiatives....

In Fiscal Year (FY) 2012, SSA spent approximately$1.5 billion on IT investments. SSA has stated its IT investments have been
Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to Facebook
Posted in Contracting, Information Technology, OIG | No comments
Newer Post Older Post Home

0 comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Popular Posts

  • What The Debt Ceiling Showdown Is About
         From Jonathan Chait writing for New York Magazine: [The Obama Administration sees] the debt-ceiling fight as being mainly about the lon...
  • Scare Tactics Work -- To Some Extent
         From a press release: Only 31 percent of American adults believe that Social Security will still be around when they retire, according ...
  • The Consequences Of The "Secret ALJ" Policy
         For some months now Social Security has been trying to withhold the identity of the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) scheduled to hold on...
  • Every Little Way
         From EM-13017 issued last week: SSA [Social Security Administration] is implementing changes to reduce the agency’s printing and mailin...
  • Shutdown News Roundup
         A roundup of shutdown related news: From The Hill: "Everybody's tried to envision [an endgame], but nobody has it yet," s...
  • Didn't Know My Own Strength
         There's more at the CBS website on how brave they and Senator Coburn are to buck the powerful "disability industry."
  • Health Care Exchange Widget Added To Blog
         I have added a Health Exchange widget on the right side of the page. This allows readers to get information from the Department of Heal...
  • One Republican Seems To Like Chained CPI
         From a House Ways and Means Committee press release (emphasis in original): U.S. Congressman Sam Johnson (R-TX), Chairman of the House ...
  • Who Killed The Rabbit?
         From the Rome (GA) News-Tribune: Rome police reported that vandals left a dead rabbit for staff to find at the Social Security office o...
  • Can Pain Be Measured?
         From the New England Journal of Medicine: Persistent pain is measured by means of self-report, the sole reliance on which hampers diagn...

Categories

  • AARP
  • About The Blog
  • Actuary
  • ACUS
  • Affordable Care Act
  • ALJs
  • Allsup
  • Andrew Biggs
  • Appeal Council
  • Attorney Fees
  • Awards
  • Baby Boomers
  • Baby Names
  • Backlogs
  • Binder and Binder
  • Blogs
  • Budget
  • Campaign 2016
  • Campaign Against Social Security Disability
  • Childrens' Disability
  • Class Actions
  • COLA
  • Commissioner
  • Congress and Social Security
  • Congressional Hearings
  • Contracting
  • Crime Beat
  • Customer Service
  • DDS
  • Death Master File
  • Debt Collection
  • Disability Claims
  • Disability Policy
  • Disability Trust Fund
  • DOMA
  • DOT
  • E-Files
  • E-Verify
  • EAJA
  • Emergency Messages
  • ERE
  • Federal Courts
  • Federal Employment
  • Federal Register
  • Fiancing Social Security
  • FICA
  • Field Offices
  • Financing Social Security
  • Freedom Of Information Act
  • Furloughs
  • GAO
  • Government Representative
  • Government Shutdown
  • Grid Regulations
  • HALLEX
  • Health Care and Social Security
  • Images
  • Immigration Enforcement
  • Information Technology
  • International Social Security
  • Job Openings
  • Listings
  • Marriage
  • Media and Social Security
  • Medical Experts
  • Medical Records
  • Medicare
  • Mental Illness
  • Mistakes
  • NADE
  • NAS
  • NASI
  • National Academy of Social Insurance
  • Nominations
  • NOSSCR
  • NPRM
  • Obituaries
  • Occupational Information
  • ODAR
  • Off Topic
  • Office Closures
  • OGC
  • OIG
  • OIG Reports
  • OMB
  • Online Services
  • Op Eds
  • Overpayments
  • Pain
  • Payment of Benefits
  • Plain Writing
  • Polls
  • POMS
  • President
  • Press Releases
  • Privatization
  • Regulations
  • Representative Payees
  • Representing Social Security Claimants
  • Research
  • Retirement and Survivor's Benefits
  • Retirement Policy
  • Senior Attorneys
  • Sequestration
  • Social Media
  • Social Security Alumni
  • Social Security Bulletin
  • Social Security Cards
  • Social Security Employees
  • Social Security Hearings
  • Social Security History
  • Social Security HistoryP
  • Social Security Numbers
  • Social Security Reform
  • Social Security Subcommittee
  • SSA As Employer
  • SSAB
  • SSI
  • Statistics
  • Supreme Court
  • Technology
  • Think Tanks
  • Ticket to Work
  • Trust Funds
  • Twitter feed
  • Unemployment
  • Unions
  • User Fee
  • Veterans and Social Security
  • Video
  • Waiting Period
  • Woodlawn
  • Work Incentives

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2013 (500)
    • ►  December (28)
    • ►  November (50)
    • ▼  October (81)
      • The Need For Children's SSI Benefits
      • Banned By SSA!
      • 1.5% COLA
      • Charlie Binder Has More To Say In Response To Sixt...
      • Astrue Called "Hack" By Candidate For Governor
      • SSA Making Cat Videos
      • More On Social Security Overpayments
      • Is Social Security Sending Out $75,000 Checks To R...
      • A Manageable Problem
      • Alabama Sheriff Acquitted On Social Security Fraud...
      • Democrats And Republicans Support Positions At Odd...
      • Quite A Comedown
      • Charlie Binder Responds To Sixty Minutes
      • Getting A New Government Program Off The Ground Is...
      • Big Return From Social Security
      • OIG To Focus On Widespread Fraud Investigations; A...
      • Why Social Security Is Essential
      • Representative Ryan Asking About Raising Retiremen...
      • SSA Has No Idea Whether The Billions It's Spent On...
      • WSJ Fantasizes About Cuts To Social Security
      • Attack On Social Security From Children's Advocate
      • Partial Shutdown At Social Security Threatned Life...
      • Former ALJ, Under Investigation, Attempts Suicide
      • NADE Newsletter
      • COLA Announcement Probably Coming On October 30
      • Breaking Bad In Rhode Island
      • Maybe The Right Wing Should Just Lie Low For A Bit
      • More Money For Social Security's Administrative Bu...
      • Who Is Most To Blame For The Government Shutdown?
      • OGC Employees Recalled To Work
      • One Social Security Employee's Shutdown Story
      • Shutdown Will Soon Be Over
      • ICU Stays Associated With Cognitive Impairment
      • An ALJ With A Plan
      • SSA To Have Role In "Obamacare" Income Verification??
      • In Fairness To Eric Conn
      • Scare Tactics Work -- To Some Extent
      • New Condition For Raising Debt Limit: Raise Social...
      • Conn's Troubles Not Playing Well In Kentucky
      • Sequestration At Issue
      • COLA Likely To Be 1.5%
      • Status Of The Shutdown And What It Portends For Th...
      • Republicans Proposing Benefits Cuts
      • NOSSCR Responds To Sixty Minutes
      • Arizona DDS Closes Due To Lack Of Federal Money
      • Federal Courts To Shutdown After Next Friday Due T...
      • A Bit Much
      • COLA Announcement Delayed Due To Government Shutdown
      • Maine DDS Closes Due To Federal Shutdown
      • The State Of The Shutdown-Debt Ceiling Crisis
      • Karl Rove Chimes In
      • More On Eric Conn
      • Senate Hearing Getting Little Media Attention
      • Most ODAR Workers To Return To Work
      • What Is Alleged
      • Senate Hearing At 3:00
      • Vigorous Response To Sixty Minutes
      • Journalistic Ethics?
      • Why Is Eric Conn Operating Out Of Double Wides If ...
      • What The Debt Ceiling Showdown Is About
      • Didn't Know My Own Strength
      • SSA Tells Staff That Benefit Payments Not Assured ...
      • Washington Times On Alleged Fraud
      • Getting Thrown Under The Bus
      • 60 Minutes Piece On Social Security Disability Ton...
      • Shutdown Roundup
      • Boehner Plan: Keep Party Unified A While Longer Be...
      • Shutdown News Roundup
      • 60 Minutes Piece On Social Security Disability Com...
      • ALJ Decisions Will Be Implemented During Shutdown
      • Senate Committee Schedules Hearing
      • ALJs Still Issuing Decisions For Pipeline Cases --...
      • That October 17 Deadline You're Hearing Isn't Exac...
      • Chained CPI Becomes Part Of Shutdown Discussions
      • ESPN Hometown Takes A Hit
      • Twitter Feed For Social Security News
      • Your Government Shutdown News
      • Shutdown Questions
      • New Republican Plan
      • There Was Also Some Opposition To Social Security
      • Lanhee Chen Nominated To SSAB
    • ►  September (50)
    • ►  August (47)
    • ►  July (44)
    • ►  June (47)
    • ►  May (49)
    • ►  April (51)
    • ►  March (53)
Powered by Blogger.

About Me

Unknown
View my complete profile