Social Security Administration

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...

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

The objective of the performance audit was to determine whether the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) overall information security program and practices were effective and consistent with Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA)1 requirements, as defined by the Department...

Objective: To determine whether beneficiaries who received Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) services attribute those services to their work-related outcomes.

Objective: To determine whether the information the Social Security Administration (SSA) reported to the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Information Technology (IT) Dashboard was reliable.

Objective: To determine the effectiveness of the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) controls for resolving high-priority requests sent via the modernized development worksheet (MDW) process.

Objective: To (1) quantify the debt the Recovery of Overpayments, Accounting and Reporting (ROAR) system cannot track because it cannot process recovery actions beyond 2049; (2) assess the status of the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) efforts to resolve the issues caused by its system...

Objective: To (1) evaluate internal controls over the accounting and reporting of administrative costs by the Michigan Disability Determination Services (MI-DDS) for Fiscal Years (FY) 2017 and 2018, as well as indirect costs for FY 2016; (2) determine whether the administrative costs claimed on the...