Objective: to evaluate the effectiveness of the Social Security Administration’s controls over the recording of death information on the Numident database for deceased beneficiaries.
Open Recommendations
Recommendation Number | Significant Recommendation | Recommended Questioned Costs | Recommended Funds for Better Use | Additional Details | |
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1 | No | $0 | $0 | Agree | |
Record death information on the Numident, as appropriate, for the 40 deceased beneficiaries in our sample. | |||||
2 | Yes | $0 | $0 | Agree | |
Take action, as appropriate, to record death information in the Numident for the 15,714 beneficiaries identified by our current audit. | |||||
3 | Yes | $0 | $0 | Disagree | |
Take appropriate action to record death information to the Numident for the 595,514 beneficiaries identified by our prior audits. |