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.

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...

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.

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...

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration met its performance measure to reduce the number of pending actions at processing centers.

Objective: To report internal control weaknesses, noncompliance issues, and unallowable costs identified in the single audit to SSA for resolution action.

Objective: To report internal control weaknesses, noncompliance issues, and unallowable costs identified in the single audit to SSA for resolution action.

Objective: To report internal control weaknesses, noncompliance issues, and unallowable costs identified in the single audit to SSA for resolution action.

Objective: To report internal control weaknesses, noncompliance issues, and unallowable costs identified in the single audit to SSA for resolution action.

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration oversees its employees’ outside employment to mitigate the risk of conflicts of interest and employee misconduct.