H.R. 9683: FEMA Caseworker Accountability Act

This bill would require the Comptroller General, who leads the Government Accountability Office (GAO), to prepare a report for Congress within 180 days after the bill becomes law about staffing and turnover among FEMA case management personnel.

What the report would cover

• The turnover rate for FEMA case management staff.
• The average and median length of time those employees stay in their jobs.
• What FEMA is already doing, or plans to do, to reduce turnover.
• How many FEMA employees are temporarily assigned to disaster recovery work and then return to their regular jobs, broken down by:
  • full-time staff
  • part-time staff
  • temporary staff
  • contract workers
• How long those temporary disaster-response assignments usually last, and how often workers are rotated or reassigned for each disaster recovery role, again broken down by worker type.

What the bill would do overall

The bill does not directly change FEMA’s operations, hiring rules, or budgets. Instead, it would require a formal review of how stable FEMA’s case management workforce is, and how often employees are moved into and out of disaster recovery roles. The goal is to give Congress more information about staffing patterns and turnover at FEMA.

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