Number: RS22677
Title: Social Security Administration: Administrative Budget Issues
Authors: Kathleen Romig, Domestic Social Policy Division 
Abstract: This report focuses on SSA's spending for administrative expenses, which is discretionary and amounts to about 1% of SSA's total spending. This funding is provided in the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies appropriations bill. In FY2007, SSA's total administrative expenses were about $9.2 billion. About half of this funding was for administering Social Security (OASDI) benefits, 30% was for administering SSI benefits, 18% was for providing administrative support for Medicare, and another 1% was for SSA's Office of Inspector General (OIG). (The OIG has its own account; all of the other funding is included in the Limitation on Administrative Expenses (LAE) account.) In the five-year period from FY2004 to FY2008, SSA's administrative budget has increased about 17% (or 4% after adjusting for inflation).
Pages: 6
Date: May 27, 2008