... standards to reconcile their reported net costs to budget informa- tion, which could provide a basis for preparing the reconciliation in the 1998 Financial Report of the United States Government. ... entities,such as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the HHS’s Health Care Financing Administration, the Social Security Ad- ministration (SSA), the Department of State, and the Department of Vet- erans ... related to the Year 2000 readiness of the government as a whole and of a wide range of individual agencies. In addition, to help agencies mitigate their Year 2000 risk, we’.produced a series of guides...