Social Security Administration
Social Security Administration
Allow Permanant Part-Time Schedules for Career Employees
Many professional offices have Monday-Friday hours only. For some employees the higher cost of insurance, etc. may outweigh the burden of scheduling leave and juggling family responsibilities... more »
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Social Security Administration
Create 100% Work-at-Home Positions
These can be for permanant career employee positions who have the necessary security-enhanced equipment or for those who do not handle personally identifiable information.
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Social Security Administration
Include "Bottom-Up" Input into Manager and Supervisor Reviews
Include subordinate employees' ratings of supervisors and managers yearly reviews. Even if this accounts for %1 of %100, it will provide insight to that manager or supervisor's capabilities.
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Federal Employee Video Testimony
These cases can often be cross country in nature as currently my office on the West Coast is working to find funding to send an employee to the East Coast for under one hour of general background testimony.
A cross country flight and hotel for less than one hour of general testimony.... more »
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Executive Office of the President
American SWAG Only
Stuff We All Get
You have seen it in your unit’s storage or at a recruiting event. We give it out to visitors at trade shows or at an unit open house event.
Coffee cups, calendars, key chains, pens, challenge coins, you name it and the only thing in common is the sticker on the bottom; Made in China.
It is time to impose immediate legislation that will prohibit the purchase of foreign made items for official... more »
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Department of Homeland Security
Consolidate DHS Seized Property Operations
By consolidating all of these facilities and processes into one DHS seized property system, cost savings and efficiency will occur.
Why does ICE need a seized property vault in the same geographical location as CBP?
Consolidate these facilities... more »
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Put a monthly cap on SSA payments to families with children
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Social Security Administration
Stop Social Security when Death Cerificate is Issued
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Match Federal records against State's Billions in Unclaimed $$
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Social Security Administration
Stop Medicare Variable SMI provision, Save $1.47 BILLION a year
My idea is to eliminate Section 1839(f) of the Social Security Act which allows for Variable SMI.
Doing this would save the government (a low-end estimate) $1.470 BILLION dollars a year.
(Not counting the disability beneficiaries that have part B Medicare)... more »
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Department of Homeland Security
Consolidation of CBP and TSA Bonded Facility and Cargo Operation
The events of September 11, 2001 resulted in the creation of DHS as well as the TSA with the consolidation of the Customs Service into CBP. Since 2001 the TSA has grown and expanded in mission... more »
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Social Security Administration
Consolidate office space WITHIN the agency.
SSA has an entire EMPTY floor YET we RENT across the street for $$$. We should use our SQ FT more efficiently, get rid of the rental & invited our extended employees onto our EMPTY floor.
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Department of Health and Human Services
Consolidate office space THROUGHOUT the Federal Govt
Use all of our office space. We rent large SQ FT with not enough people to fill it.
If we rent large, use it. The govt is giving money away again.
The govt cannot afford to live in the nice neighborhood anymore. Humble pie.