Social Security Administration

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration met all requirements of the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 in the Fiscal Year 2023 Agency Financial Report and accompanying materials.

Objective: To determine whether SSA could identify deceased beneficiaries aged 80 to 89 using its Medicare claims data.

The comments are in response to Impact of Undetected Marriages on Social Security Administration Payments, 012317, that was submitted by The National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems on May 20, 2024, pursuant to Pub. L. No. 117- 263, § 5274.

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration’s controls identified Disability Insurance beneficiaries and Supplemental Security Income recipients who also received Illinois or Texas workers’ compensation benefits.

Objective: The objective was to observe customer wait times in select Social Security Administration field offices and Social Security Card Centers. In addition, we determined the (1) factors that may affect customer wait times and (2) steps SSA took to reduce wait times.

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration properly updated payment records to prevent improper payments when individuals changed their name because of marriage.

Objective: To determine the risk of illegal, improper, and erroneous purchases made through the Social Security Administration’s charge card programs.

Objective: To determine the appropriateness of continued benefit payments to individuals who, according to California Department of Public Health vital statistics data files, died in California between January 1980 and December 1987.

Objective: To evaluate Title II auxiliary beneficiaries who did not have their own Social Security number and quantify incorrect payments to those who died.