This Act was designed to improve program management throughout the Federal government and became effective in 1993. Under this Act, agencies are required to develop a five-year strategic plan outlining its mission, long-term goals for the agency's major functions, performance measures, and reporting results. Strategic plans are to be updated every 3 years and DOL's most current strategic plan can be found on the Strategic Plan webpage. In addition to the strategic plan, agencies also submit an annual performance report to the Office of Management and Budget with established fiscal year performance goals, objectives on how to achieve these goals, and an explanation of how performance is measured and verified.
Beginning 2005, DOL added a performance overview which displays ETA's final GPRA performance goals and targets, however, the Reemployment Rate for Unemployment Insurance Claimants measure was discontinued beginning in FY 2015. These performance overviews serve as the source documents for the national GPRA goals and targets. These are outlined below or in a trending view here:
| Government Performance and Results Act Goals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Performance Measures | FY 2018 Results | FY 2017 Results | FY 2016 Results | ||
| Unemployment Insurance | |||||
| Percent of Intrastate Payments Made Timely | 84.7% | 84.5% | 84.5% | ||
| Detection of Recoverable Overpayments | 53.7%1 | 45.6%2 | 56.39% | ||
| Percent of Employer Tax Liability Determinations Made Timely | 89.5% | 88.7% | 88.8% | ||
| 1 Excludes the data of Massachusetts due to missing reports. 2 Excludes the data of Massachusetts and New Jersey due to missing reports. | |||||
| Government Performance and Results Act Goals | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Performance Measures | FY 2019 Goal* | ||
| Unemployment Insurance | |||
| Percent of Intrastate First Payments Made Timely | 87% | ||
| Detection of Recoverable Overpayments | 54.5% | ||
| Percent of Employer Tax Liability Determinations Made Timely | 89.0% | ||
| *Goals may be revised based on prior year performance. | |||
| Government Performance and Results Act Results & Goals | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Performance Measures | FY 2018 | FY 2017 | FY 2016 | |||
| Goal | Result | Goal | Result | Goal | Result | |
| Percent of Intrastate First Payments Made Timely | 87% | 84.7% | 87% | 84.5% | 87.50% | 84.50% |
| Detection of Recoverable Overpayments | 61.9% | 53.7%1 | 61.4% | 45.6%2 | 67.90% | 56.39% |
| Percent of Employer Tax Liability Determinations Made Timely | 88% | 89.5% | 88% | 88.7% | 89.00% | 88.80% |
| 1Excludes the data of Massachusetts due to missing reports. 2 Excludes the data of Massachusetts and New Jersey due to missing reports. | ||||||