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333

Oversight of Medical Examinations for Disability Claims

2024
012313
Audit
Social Security Administration OIG
Social Security Administration

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration and disability determination services conducted consultative examination (CE) oversight reviews, as required, and whether they took corrective actions based on the results of the CE oversight reviews completed.

Office of Special Counsel Referral: Spouses Subject to Age Reduction and Government Pension Offset (OSC File No. DI-24-000154)—Initial Analysis (Memorandum)

2024
052407
Other
Social Security Administration OIG
Social Security Administration

On December 19, 2023, the Office of Special Counsel referred a whistleblower disclosure in which a Social Security Administration (SSA) employee alleged that, “SSA Claims Examiners are not informing claimants about the potential detriment of electing to apply for spousal benefits prior to full...

Preventing, Detecting, and Recovering Improper Payments

2024
072401
Other
Social Security Administration OIG
Social Security Administration

Purpose: This report summarizes the Office of the Inspector General’s audit work related to the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) efforts to prevent, detect, and recover improper payments, which we have identified as a major management challenge for SSA since Fiscal Year 2002.

Memorandum: Widow(er)s at or Beyond Full Retirement Age

2024
032316
Other
Social Security Administration OIG
Social Security Administration

We reviewed mother/father and disabled widow(er) beneficiaries who were at, or beyond, full retirement age as of February 2024 to determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) had appropriately converted their benefit type to widow(er)s. We identified 757 widow(er)s who were not...

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