Social Security Administration

Objective: To determine whether overpayments resulting from incorrect Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance benefit payment computations were avoidable.

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) had adequate controls over mail processing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) met all requirements of the Payment Integrity Information Act of 2019 (PIIA) in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Agency Financial Report (AFR) and accompanying materials.

Objective: to evaluate the effectiveness of the Social Security Administration’s controls over the recording of death information on the Numident database for deceased beneficiaries.

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

Our objectives were to determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) (1) took timely and appropriate actions in response to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) deportation alerts; (2) paid Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) benefits to individuals DHS reported as...

To determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) had adequate controls to ensure it paid child beneficiaries’ withheld benefits pending the selection of a representative payee.

To determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) had adequate controls to ensure it establishedthe correct primary insurance amount (PIA) for widow(er)s when a wage earner died before age 62.

To determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) established the correct month of entitlement (MOE) when it awarded Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) benefits.