Social Security Administration

To assess the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) efforts to expand the use of health information technology (health IT) to obtain and analyze medical records for disability claims.

We conducted this review to address concerns that the timing of the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) provision of beneficiary and recipient data to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) delayed the issuance of economic impact payments (EIP) authorized by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA...

Objective: To summarize information about State disability determination services’ (DDS) workloads during the COVID-19 pandemic period of April 2020 to March 2021 and compare it to DDS workloads in prior years.

Objective: To review the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) telephone services, especially as they relate to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) had adequate controls to ensure it took appropriate actions for beneficiaries in a suspended payment status who may have been deceased.

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

Each year, OIG identifies what we believe are the most serious management and performance challenges facing SSA. We provide this information to Congress, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), SSA, and key decision makers.

Objective: To fulfill our responsibilities under the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 (CFO Act) and related legislation, we monitored Grant Thornton LLP’s audit of the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 financial statements to ensure the quality of the audit work...

To assess the (1) completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and quality of Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 third-quarter financial and award data the Social Security Administration (SSA) submitted for publication on USASpending.gov and (2) implementation and use of the Government-wide financial data standards...