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Numberholders Age 100 or Older Who Did Not Have Death Information on the Numident

Submitting OIG: 
Social Security Administration OIG
Report Description: 
Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration had effective controls to annotate death information on the Numident records of numberholders who exceeded maximum reasonable life expectancies.
Date Issued: 
Monday, July 31, 2023
Agency Reviewed / Investigated: 
Social Security Administration
Submitting OIG-Specific Report Number: 
A-06-21-51022
Location(s): 
Agency-Wide
Type of Report: 
Audit
Questioned Costs: 
$0
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 Yes
Use the death information already in its records to input death information on 2.5 million numberholders’ Numident records.
2 Open No
Use death information in Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and various state death data files to input death information on approximately 498,000 Numident records.
3 Open No
Develop a methodology to annotate death information onto the Numident records of the approximately 15.8 million remaining non-current payment status beneficiary numberholders identified by our audit.
Displaying 3 of 3 Recommendations