The Social Security Administration’s Plan to Achieve Self-Support Program
To assess the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) management of the Plan to Achieve Self-Support (PASS) program and its vulnerability to misuse.
To assess the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) management of the Plan to Achieve Self-Support (PASS) program and its vulnerability to misuse.
To determine the accuracy of Social Security disability benefits paid to beneficiaries who also received Federal Employees’ Compensation Act (FECA) payments.
Objective: To respond to questions from the Subcommittee on Social Security regarding how many employees and visitors had entered Social Security Administration (SSA) offices since the Agency closed its offices; what work was being performed in the offices; and how SSA was ensuring the safety of...
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.