Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) corrective actions in response to our prior audit effectively improved its processing of Internal Revenue Service (IRS) non-wage-related alerts.
Open Recommendations
Recommendation Number | Significant Recommendation | Recommended Questioned Costs | Recommended Funds for Better Use | Additional Details | |
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3 | No | $0 | $34,016,434 | Disagree | |
Update policy to establish timeframes for staff to resolve non-wage-related alerts before SSA overwrites IRS non-wage income data in its systems and/or administrative finality rules apply. | |||||
4 | No | $0 | $0 | Agree | |
If SSA does not implement recommendation 3, then it should retain the IRS non-wage income data in its systems beyond 2 years, so it is available for staff to process cases involving fraud or similar fault. |