Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration had effective controls to annotate death information on the Numident records of numberholders who exceeded maximum reasonable life expectancies.
Open Recommendations
Recommendation Number | Significant Recommendation | Recommended Questioned Costs | Recommended Funds for Better Use | Additional Details | |
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1 | Yes | $0 | $0 | Disagree | |
Use the death information already in its records to input death information on 2.5 million numberholders’ Numident records. | |||||
2 | No | $0 | $0 | Disagree | |
Use death information in Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and various state death data files to input death information on approximately 498,000 Numident records. | |||||
3 | No | $0 | $0 | Disagree | |
Develop a methodology to annotate death information onto the Numident records of the approximately 15.8 million remaining non-current payment status beneficiary numberholders identified by our audit. |