(c) Administration and management services. (d) Administration of War Claims Act.-Claims are adjudicated and payments are made to certain wartime employees of U.S. Government contractors and to certain American citizens who were captured by the Japanese. In 1957, funds for the payment of all future benefits were transferred from the war claims fund to the general fund of the Treasury.

2. Administration of longshoremen's rehabilitation program.-The Bureau provides vocational rehabilitation services to permanently injured employees where such services are not available otherwise, financed by payment from a trust fund.

Object Classification (in thousands of dollars)

1964 actual

3,331
116

13

3,460

293

111

7

107
41

96
38

10

4.163

50

4

1

1

60 4,223

539 2 516 6.6

$6,620

3,451
142

9

3,602

316

107

4 123

51

102

47

18

4,370

58

4

6

1

70

4,440

507

0 488 6.6 $7.083 $7,109

EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION CLAIMS AND EXPENSES

For the payment of compensation and other benefits and expenses (except administrative expenses) authorized by law and accruing during the current or any prior fiscal year, including payments to other Federal agencies for medical and hospital services pursuant to agreement approved by the Bureau of Employees' Compensation; continuation of payment of benefits as provided for under the head "Civilian War Benefits" in the Federal Security Agency Appropriation Act, 1947; the advancement of costs for enforcement of recoveries in third-party cases; the furnishing of medical and hospital services and supplies, treatment, and funeral and burial expenses, including transportation and other expenses incidental to such services, treatment, and burial, for such enrollees of the Civilian Con

servation Corps as were certified by the Director of such Corps as
receiving hospital services and treatment at Government expense on
June 30, 1943, and who are not otherwise entitled thereto as civilian
employees of the United States, and the limitations and authority of
the Act of September 7, 1916, as amended (5 U.S.C. 796), shall apply
in providing such services, treatment, and expenses in such cases and
for payments pursuant to sections 4(c) and 5(f) of the War Claims
Act of 1948 (50 U.S.C. App. 2012); [$52,650,000] $49,606,000,
together with such amount as may be necessary to be charged to the
subsequent year appropriation for the payment of compensation and
other benefits for any period subsequent to March 31 of the year:
Provided, That, in the adjudication of claims under section 42 of the
said Act of 1916, for benefits payable from this appropriation,
authority under section 32 of the Act to make rules and regulations
shall be construed to include the nature and extent of the proofs and
evidence required to establish the right to such benefits without
regard to the date of the injury or death for which claim is made.
(5 U.S.C. 785; 42 U.S.C. 1701; 50 U.S.C. 2001-3013; Public Law
86-233, 73 Stat. 469; Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1965.)
Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars)

Long-term cases compensated.
New injuries reported..
Number of payments..

54,338
16,098

547

1,011

71,994

1965 1966 estimate estimate

57,532

14,400
555
1,013

73,500

58,832 33 -54 58,812

60,216
14,000

550
1,510

-13,162 -20,850 -26,670

6

76,276

58,838 52,650 49,606

52,650 54 -2,179 50,525

71,994 73,500 76,276 -13,162 -20,850 -26,670

49,606 2,179 -6,789 44,996

Benefits are paid to civil employees of the Government disabled in the performance of duty or to their dependents, to dependents of certain reservists in the Armed Forces who died while on active duty with the Armed Forces or while engaged in authorized training in time of peace, to members of the Civil Air Patrol as authorized by the Act of August 3, 1956, and to others by various extensions of the Federal Employees' Compensation Act.

Benefits are also paid to employees of Government contractors and to American civilians who were captured by the Japanese. Funds for payment of all future benefits under this program were transferred from the War claims fund to the general fund of the Treasury in 1957.

WORKLOAD

1963 1964 1965 1966 actual actual estimate estimate 20,225 20,525 20,800 21,000 109,213 109,623 110,400 112,000 437,001 450,789 454,450 458,560

HQDADES

THE CAIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

WAGE AND LABOR STANDARDS-Continued
General and special funds-Continued

EMPLOYEES' COMPENSATION CLAIMS AND EXPENSES-continued

Proposed for separate transmittal:

WAGE AND LABOR STANDARDS

Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars)

Identification code
12-30-1525-1-1-999

Relation of obligations to expenditures:

71 Total obligations (affecting expenditures).

-811

90

Expenditures...

-811

The budget will be amended at a later date to reflect management improvements and the elimination of lowpriority activities financed by the Wage and Labor Standards appropriations.

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the work of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, including advances or reimbursement to State, Federal, and local agencies and their employees for services rendered, [$17,925,000 $20,601,000. (29 U.S.Č. 2, 7, 181; Department of Labor Appropriation Act, 1965.)

Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars)

Change in selected resources 1_

10 Total obligations..

1964 actual

Financing:

25 Unobligated balance lapsing..........

New obligational authority....

New obligational authority:

40 Appropriation...............

44 Proposed supplemental due to civilian pay

increases..

1964 actual

6,256

2,447

2,865

639

340

404

1,463

1,812

16,226

117

16,343

1965 estimate

2

16,345

16,345

730

341

406

1966 estimate

1965 1966 estimate estimate

1,644

2,176

-811
-811

7,464 8,726
2,854 3,103

3,017

3,528

Program and Financing (in thousands of dollars)—Continued

20,601

1. Manpower and employment statistics.-The Bureau collects, issues, and analyzes comprehensive data on employment, unemployment, hours of work, earnings, and labor turnover. It publishes monthly estimates of the labor force, employment and unemployment, as well as providing greater detail on various labor force characteristics and industrial employment. Estimates of manpower requirements and supply, reviews of long-range labor force and employment trends, and special studies on manpower problems are prepared. Detailed studies of the outlook for specific occupations are made. It is proposed to (a) strengthen the estimates of employment and unemployment by expanding the sample by 50 percent and to increase the number of special surveys of the labor force on issues such as the extent of overtime work or the desire of the long-term unemployed for additional training; (b) develop employment, hours and earnings data for 20 additional standard metropolitan statistical areas and national series for additional nonmanufacturing industries; and (c) plan survey procedures, forms, and instructions, and summarize and analyze the results of job vacancy statistics collected by BES fcr 150 areas.

2. Prices and cost of living. The Consumer Price Index is published covering urban wage earners and clerical families for the Nation as a whole, for selected large cities, and for selected cities in Alaska. The Wholesale Price Index is issued monthly covering more than 2,000 industrial and agricultural products in primary markets. Special analytical studies of price changes are undertaken. In 1966 new programs proposed are (a) development of industry sector output price indexes for additional manufacturing industries; (b) improve and maintain international price comparisons for metals and machinery 2.115 products; (c) to initiate the development of indexes of

741

345

413 1,630

20,601

prices paid by the Federal Government; and (d) to begin the updating of standard budgets for city workers' families and elderly couples.

1 Selected resources as of June 30 are as follows: Unpaid, undelivered orders, 1963, $73 thousand; 1964, $190 thousand; 1965, $100 thousand; 1966, $100 thousand.

3. Wages and industrial relations.-Information is com piled on wages and related benefits in nonsupervisory employment for 80 major labor markets and for selected major industries; and on salaries in selected professional, administrative, and technical occupations. Monthly information is prepared on industrial relations developments, and annual reports on employer expenditures on fringe benefits are issued. Studies of collective bargaining agree ment provisions, trade union organization and private welfare and pension plans are made. It is proposed in 1966 to (a) expand the survey of professional, administrative,