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Review of a New Data Management System for the Social Security Administration (1978) / Chapter Skim
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1. The Proposed SSA Process
Pages 9-12

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From page 9...
... Not surprisingly, the cost and complexity of the SSA programs have risen rapidly -- twice as fast in the past 25 years as the increase in the gross national product. By 1975 about nine out of every ten persons at the age of 65 or over were receiving social security benefits, as compared with fewer than two out of ten in 1950.
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From page 10...
... Today the SSA process incorporates both highly sophisticated electronic data processing equipment and antiquated manual procedures. The not unexpected result of this ad hoc approach is a system which in many of its aspects is unwieldy, uneven in quality, and increasingly vulnerable to breakdown.
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From page 11...
... provide continued opportunities for personal contact when preferred by the client; ~ o plan the basic design around a central computer configuration at the Baltimore headquarters with regional or local computers or other automated activity confined to support, preparation, or input functions; result in net reduction of the workforce below that projected for the present proces s; a seek non-labor intensive solutions; build in safeguards to assure confidentiality and privacy of client information; provide for audit trails;
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From page 12...
... The panel has reviewed the requirements and found most of them to be reasonable and beneficial to the projected process. In the following chapters it will be clear that the panel differs with the GAS requirements that the main computer facilities be concentrated at the SSA headquarters in Baltimore, and that the future process be limited to existing Congressional authorization or legislative actions.
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