Social Security Administration

The objective was to (1) determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) made payments to beneficiaries and/or representative payees who were deceased according to Alabama, Georgia, or Illinois records and (2) identify non-beneficiaries in the States’ files whose death information did not...

The objective was to determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) resolved the delinquent status of overpayments for beneficiaries identified by the Delinquent Debt Trigger File (DDTF).

The objective was to review six demonstration projects the Social Security Administration (SSA) has conducted since 2010 under section 234 of the Social Security Act to (1) summarize information on the demonstration projects’ work rules tested and/or services offered, costs, savings, and participant...

Our objective was to determine whether actions the Social Security Administration has taken since our March 2011 report, Follow-up: Personally Identifiable Information Made Available to the Public Via the Death Master File (A-06-10-20173), effectively mitigated PII breaches.

To determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) overpaid widows when it applied the Social Security Act’s Retirement Insurance Benefits (RIB) limitation provision and the reduced widow(er)’s benefit policy.

The objective was to determine whether the Social Security Administration (1) transferred overpayments from terminated Supplemental Security Income records to current records for recovery and (2) took corrective action to recover the Supplemental Security Income overpayments we identified in our...

To determine whether the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) responses to the end of Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Chief Information Officer (CIO) Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) metrics were reliable.

To summarize prior work on the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) administrative finality policy and evaluate the Agency’s actions to update it.

Our objective was 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) 2020 Agency Financial Report (AFR) and accompanying materials. In addition, we evaluated the Agency’s efforts to...