Can the Department provide outplacement assistance?
The Comptroller General has concluded an agency may not provide outplacement assistance to political appointees unless it generally offers these services to all its employees. The CG decision says, “… an agency may not expend public money for the specific purpose of helping political appointees return to private life although an agency may offer its existing outplacement assistance program to political appointees, it may not provide outplacement services exclusively to appointees of the outgoing Administration.” [B251488, Letter to The Honorable William L. Clay, Chairman, Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, December 23, 1992.].
