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Disability Payments to Beneficiaries or Recipients Receiving Illinois or Texas Workers' Compensation Benefits

Submitting OIG: 
Social Security Administration OIG
Report Description: 
Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration’s controls identified Disability Insurance beneficiaries and Supplemental Security Income recipients who also received Illinois or Texas workers’ compensation benefits.
Date Issued: 
Friday, May 17, 2024
Agency Reviewed / Investigated: 
Social Security Administration
Submitting OIG-Specific Report Number: 
A-06-20-50922
Location(s): 
Agency-Wide
Type of Report: 
Audit
Questioned Costs: 
$28,594,221
Funds for Better Use: 
$0
Number of Recommendations: 
3
Report updated under NDAA 5274: 
No
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Related Open Recommendations

Recommendation Number Recommendation Status Significant Recommendation Additional Details
1 Open No
Develop the 35 sample cases where Illinois or Texas workers’ compensation benefit payment data were not reflected in beneficiaries’ payment records and establish overpayments, as appropriate.
2 Open No
Evaluate the feasibility of a legislative proposal requiring states to provide workers’ compensation payment information to SSA.
3 Open No
Update initial claim and post-entitlement processes to more explicitly request claimants and beneficiaries report whether they have received, will receive, or expect to receive workers’ compensation benefit payment information.
Displaying 3 of 3 Recommendations