Branch, Division of General Services. Social Security Administration Contracts and Small Business Activities Contact the Office of Management, Budget, and Personnel. Phone, 301-9650580. Employment A variety of civil service registers and examinations are used in hiring new employees. Specific employment information may be obtained from the Office of Human Resources. Phone, 301-965-3060. Publications The Social Security Administration collects a substantial volume of economic, demographic, and other data in furtherance of its program mission. Basic data on employment and earnings, beneficiaries and benefit payments, utilization of health services and other items of program interest are published regularly in the Social Security Bulletin, its Annual Statistical Supplement, and in special releases and reports that appear periodically on selected topics of interest to the general public. Additional information may be obtained from the Publications Staff of SSA's Office of Research and Statistics, Room 921, 1875 Connecticut Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20009. Phone, 202-673-5579. The Office of Governmental Affairs has published numerous pamphlets concerning programs administered by SSA. Single copies may be obtained at any of SSA's over 1,300 local offices. Reading Rooms Requests for information, for copies of records, or to inspect or copy records may be made at any of SSA's local offices or the Headquarters Contact Unit, Room G-44, Altmeyer Building. Phone, 301-8766450 (answering service). Speakers and Films It is SSA's policy to make speakers, films, and exhibits available to public or private organizations, community groups, schools, etc., throughout the Nation. Requests for this service should be directed to the nearest Social Security Office or the Office of Governmental Affairs. For further information concerning the Department of Health and Human Services, contact the Information Center, Department of Health and Human Services, 200 Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20201. Phone, 202-475-0257. The Department of Housing and Urban Development is the Federal agency principally responsible for programs concerned with the Nation's housing needs, the development and preservation of the Nation's communities, and the provision of equal housing opportunity for every individual. In carrying out its responsibilities, the Department administers a wide variety of programs, including: Federal Housing Administration mortgage insurance programs that help families become homeowners and facilitate the construction and rehabilitation of rental units; rental assistance programs for lower income families who otherwise could not afford decent housing; the Government National Mortgage Association mortgage-backed securities program that helps ensure an adequate supply of mortgage credit; programs to combat housing discrimination and to affirmatively further fair housing; programs that aid community and neighborhood development and preservation; and programs to help protect the homebuyer in the marketplace. The Department also takes steps to encourage a strong, private sector housing industry that can produce affordable housing, and to stimulate private sector initiatives, public/private sector partnerships, and public entrepreneurship. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) was created to: -administer the principal programs that provide assistance for housing and for the development of the Nation's communities; -assist the President in achieving maximum coordination of the various Federal activities that have a major effect upon community preservation and development; -encourage the solution of problems of housing and community development through States and localities; encourage the maximum contributions that may be made by vigorous private homebuilding and mortgage lending industries, both primary and secondary, to housing, community development, and the national economy; and -provide for full and appropriate consideration, at the national level, of the needs and interests of the Nation's communities and of the people who live and work in them. HUD was established by the |