Objectives: To determine whether the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) completed counts for program integrity and hearings workloads in Fiscal Years 2017 through 2021 were complete and accurate. In addition, we determined whether SSA’s spending exceeded dedicated funding amounts for program integrity and hearings backlog workloads.
Open Recommendations
Recommendation Number | Significant Recommendation | Recommended Questioned Costs | Recommended Funds for Better Use | Additional Details | |
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1 | No | $0 | $0 | Disagree | |
Create an internal control or system edit to ensure Social Security Administration employees contact a beneficiary and complete a Form SSA-455, Disability Update Report, before they mark a continuing disability review mailer as deferred. | |||||
2 | No | $0 | $0 | Agree | |
Enhance the quality review process to ensure continuing disability review mailers are processed correctly. |