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.
Open Recommendations
Recommendation Number | Significant Recommendation | Recommended Questioned Costs | Recommended Funds for Better Use | Additional Details | |
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1 | No | $28,594,221 | $0 | Agree | |
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 | No | $0 | $0 | Agree | |
Evaluate the feasibility of a legislative proposal requiring states to provide workers’ compensation payment information to SSA. | |||||
3 | No | $0 | $0 | Agree | |
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. |