Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration issued payments to beneficiaries who were deceased according to State Department records.
Open Recommendations
Recommendation Number | Significant Recommendation | Recommended Questioned Costs | Recommended Funds for Better Use | Additional Details | |
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1 | Yes | $37,816,696 | $4,926,099 | Agree | |
Review and take appropriate action (for example, verify the beneficiaries’ vital status, input death information, terminate payment records, initiate recovery of improper payments) on the remaining cases in our population of 1,596 beneficiaries reported as deceased in State Department records. | |||||
2 | Yes | $0 | $0 | Agree | |
Work with State Department officials and develop an electronic method to timely report death information for U.S. citizens who die abroad. | |||||
3 | No | $0 | $0 | Disagree | |
Work with State Department officials to timely forward reports of death abroad when State Department obtains a first-party report of death. |