Social Security Administration

To evaluate internal controls over the accounting and reporting of administrative costs and determine whether the administrative costs claimed by the District of Columbia Disability Determination Division (DC-DDD) for Fiscal Years (FY) 2016 and 2017 were allowable and properly allocated.

To determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) had taken appropriate actions for Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance beneficiaries over age 70 whose benefits were suspended for address, whereabouts unknown, or failure to return the foreign enforcement questionnaire.

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

We issued this to determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) followed its policy to identify and expeditiously process veteran and military casualty disability claims.

We issued this to determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) identified, and took appropriate action on, all cases in which a new representative payee was needed when a current representative payee died.

We issued this to determine whether the (1) representative payee had effective safeguards over the receipt and disbursement of Social Security benefit payments for individuals in her care and (2) benefit payments were used and accounted for in accordance with Social Security Administration (SSA)...

We issued this to determine whether the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) policy for averaging earnings ensured staff made accurate and consistent substantial gainful activity (SGA) determinations.

We issued this to identify instances where field office managers and supervisors closed unusual volumes of Supplemental Security Income (SSI) redeterminations and determine whether they closed the redeterminations in accordance with Agency policy.