Social Security Administration

This interim report presents preliminary findings related to two Office of Audit reviews, A-08-21-51036 & A-15-21-51015. The objectives of these audits are to evaluate SSA’s management of mail and controls over its processing of Social Security card applications during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

Our objective was to determine to determine whether Social Security Administration (SSA) staff used updated values of all resources when they completed redeterminations to determine whether recipients remained eligible for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments.

The objective was to determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) complied with its policies and procedures for allegations of misuse by individual representative payees (payee) who served 14 or fewer beneficiaries. Specifically, we examined SSA’s negligence determinations and whether...

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.