Social Security Administration

Pursuant to an Office of the Inspector General subpoena, we obtained Alaska Department of Health data that contained the personally identifiable information (PII) of 217,851 individuals the State recorded as deceased from January 13, 1900 to February 14, 2023. We processed thedata through the Social...

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration had effective controls to annotate death information on the Numident records of numberholders who exceeded maximum reasonable life expectancies.

Objectives: To determine whether the Social Security Administration’s automation enhancements (1) reduced manual processing for resource-intensive workloads and (2) were cost-effective.

This report provides information on 610,219 Disability Insurance (DI) beneficiaries whose claims were approved at the initial claim level by various state disability determination services (DDS) during Calendar Years (CY) 2020 and 2021. In each case, disability examiners (1) determined the...

We summarized (1) direct payments SSA made to claimant representatives during Calendar Years 2018 through 2022, and (2) user fees SSA charged claimant representatives to process the direct payments during Fiscal Years 2018 through 2022

Objective: To determine how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the disability determination services’ (DDS) processing of disability claims.

Objectives: To determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) has established internal controls to (1) initiate enrollment, upon request, in the Direct Express® Debit Card program (Program) and (2) resolve benefits returned to the Agency because of an unfinished enrollment.

Objective: To determine the extent of the disruptions to the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) telephone services and their impact on the public.

Objective: To determine the accuracy and costs of edit routines the Social Security Administration (SSA) uses to reinstate wage items from the Earnings Suspense File (ESF).

To report the internal control weaknesses, noncompliance issues, and unallowable costs identified in the single audit to the Social Security Administration (SSA) for resolution action.