Social Security Administration

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration’s policies and procedures prevented it from assigning multiple Social Security numbers to non-citizens who applied for original numbers through the Enumeration at Entry and Enumeration Beyond Entry processes.

Objectives: To determine whether the Social Security Administration (1) accurately and timely paid dedicated account funds to children receiving Supplemental Security Income and (2) properly monitored representative payees’ use of these funds.

Objective: To determine the impact of state workers’ compensation and public disability benefits’ reverse offset on SSA’s Disability Insurance Trust Fund.

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration’s employees timely and accurately completed actions requested in Modernized Development Worksheets.

determine whether the Office of Hearing Operations’ Compassionate And REsponsive Service Plan initiatives have reduced the hearings backlog and average processing times.

We identified 1,111 spouses who were receiving Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance benefits but did not appear to have a child in their care. These spouses may not have been entitled to the benefits they were receiving.

Objective: To determine the accuracy of the Social Security Administration’s eligibility and payment determinations for Supplemental Security Income applicants and/or recipients who own real property.

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration had and used management controls over the service its 800 number employees provided callers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration issued payments to beneficiaries who were deceased according to Oregon records.

Objectives: To determine whether the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) completed counts for program integrity and hearings workloads in Fiscal Years 2017 through 2021 were complete and accurate. In addition, we determined whether SSA’s spending exceeded dedicated funding amounts for program...