Household Goods: Administrative Changes Would Improve DOD's
Do-It-Yourself Moving Program (Letter Report, 09/27/94,
GAO/NSIAD-94-226).

GAO reviewed the Defense Department's (DOD) Do-It-Yourself program, a
voluntary program in which military personnel move their own household
goods or arrange to have them moved by a private company. Under the
program, service members receive 80 percent of what it would have cost
the government to ship the goods by a commercial carrier. The program is
intended to save the government money while also providing extra income,
in the form of a cash incentive, to participating members. GAO (1)
assessed the extent to which service members were using the program, (2)
determines whether DOD was adequately making service members aware of
the program's benefits, and (3) ascertains whether DOD has sufficient
controls to ensure that the program is cost-effective.

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 REPORTNUM:  NSIAD-94-226
     TITLE:  Household Goods: Administrative Changes Would Improve DOD's 
             Do-It-Yourself Moving Program
      DATE:  09/27/94
   SUBJECT:  Employee transfers
             Freight transportation operations
             Household goods
             Freight transportation rates
             Relocation allowances
             Transportation costs
             Cost effectiveness analysis
             Military cost control
             Employee incentives
             Military personnel
IDENTIFIER:  DOD Do-It-Yourself Household Goods Moving Program
             
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