The latest Program Assessment Rating Tool program summaries
rate three federal-employee benefit programs managed by the
Office of Personnel Management as “adequate.”
The Federal Employees Group Life Insurance program, the
Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, and Federal
Employees Retirement Program were all generally found to
have been well-managed based on initial PART assessments,
but unable to demonstrate results because for lack of
adequate performance measures.
They also lacked measures to determine their roles in
recruitment and retention, according to the summary.
It said the programs have moved to address those issues
by developing long-term and annual performance measures,
conducting employee benefit surveys to measure satisfaction,
and each committing to an “independent program evaluation
of sufficient scope and quality to improve planning with
regard to program effectiveness.”
The PART document directs the programs to demonstrate
some “ambition” toward meeting long-term goals and show
at least “adequate” progress toward achieving them,
hold program managers and partners accountable for cost,
schedule and performance results — and demonstrate that
the programs are achieving annual performance goals.
It also calls on them to follow through with independent
program evaluations, according to the summary. The
estimated FEGLI funding level for 2006 is $3.844 billion.
The estimated FEHB funding level for 2006 is $34.625
billion, and for the retirement program it’s $58.850 billion.
