Social Security Administration

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration ensured the representative payee information in its Electronic Representative Payee System was accurate.

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration ensured employees made complete and accurate capability determinations for disabled beneficiaries who previously had representative payees.

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration timely and accurately processed cases where a beneficiary's Medicare premium was higher than the Agency benefit payment.

The attached final report summarizes Ernst & Young LLP’s (Ernst & Young) review of the information technology security controls of common control providers. Under a contract the Office of Audit monitored, Ernst & Young, an independent certified public accounting firm, reviewed the security of common...

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration properly identified, expedited, and processed disability applications that qualified as a priority case.

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration’s Enterprise Risk Management program complies with Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-123, Management’s Responsibility for Enterprise Risk Management and Internal Control.

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration has adequate controls in place that are functioning as intended to properly prevent unauthorized access and use of Business Services Online services.

Objectives: To determine the validity of payments issued under cross-referred Social Security numbers and whether death information input in one Numident record was also input in cross-referred Numident record(s).

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration took corrective action to address the finding and recommendation in our September 2016 report, Numident Death Information Not Included on the Death Master File.

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration followed policies and used available tools to prevent, detect, and recover Supplemental Security Income overpayments.