Social Security Administration

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration’s financial account validation process led to accurate Supplemental Security Income determinations for applicants and recipients who alleged having less than $400 in financial accounts.

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration accurately applied the law and policy pertaining to disability waiting period exclusions for Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance beneficiaries.

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).