The Board met with Gale Stone and Rona Lawson from OIG for a statement on SSA’s major management and performance challenges. Julie Topoleski from CBO was asked to explain the process of how it creates its projections and differences between the CBO’s and the Trustees’ projections. John Phillips from ORES spoke to the Board about the workings in his office and how he envisions research will be conducted through ORES in the future.