The Office of the Chief Actuary deals with the financial impact of risk and uncertainty. They provide expert assessments of financial security systems, with a focus on their complexity, their mathematics, and their mechanisms.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is known as "the investigative arm of Congress". GAO helps improve the performance and accountability of the federal government for the benefit of the American people.
The Social Security Administration's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has the following responsibilities:
Promotes economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in the administration of SSA programs.
Prevents and detects fraud, waste and abuse in SSA programs and operations.
Informing the SSA and Congress about problems and deficiencies and recommending corrective action.
The Freedom of Information Act creates procedures whereby members of the public may obtain SSA records.
Participation Opportunities and Information
One of the objectives of our open government plan is to provide you with easy access to existing channels for participation.
Ideation Engagements:
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Refreshing Our Open Government Plan
Posted: March 8, 2012
It is time to refresh our Open Government Plan, which will highlight our successes from the first one and lay out new commitments going forward. Two years ago, we published Social Security's first Open Government Plan. In it, we outlined our steps to increase transparency, public participation, and collaboration with other organizations to improve service to the public. We invite you to contribute your thoughts and ideas for our refreshed plan, which we expect to publish in April.
Regulations:
Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), Occupational Information Development Advisory Panel (OIDAP):
Webinars:
- Learn more about our webinars:
Research, Statistics, & Policy Analysis:
Connect and Share:
We have recently refreshed our 2010 Open Government Plan and appreciate the feedback we received during its development. We have incorporated some of the ideas and are exploring others.
We invite you to review our refreshed plan and share your thoughts, comments and any ideas on how we might improve it.
Share your comments
We used our idea-sharing tool, "OpenSocialSecurity," to capture your ideas for creating our Open Government Plan. We received many ideas on how we could increase our transparency, participation, collaboration and innovation.
Under certain circumstances, Social Security can provide a speaker to discuss our programs, benefits, and services. We provide speakers free of charge, and they are generally available during business hours only. Please note that we are not able to fulfill all requests.
The Administration is committed to creating an open and transparent government through the following initiatives:
Alan Lane
Associate Commissioner for Open Government
Address:
6401 Security Blvd
West High Rise Rm. 1126
Baltimore, MD 21235
Email: open.government@ssa.gov
