Federal Reports

This fall edition of the Semiannual Report to Congress covers OIG activities from April 2019 through September 2019. Historically, about 80 percent of OIG's resources are directed to work related to Medicare and Medicaid. This is mirrored in the content of the report.

The Postal Service continues to face financial challenges due to declines in letter mail volume. As declines persist, strategic cost control is one of the key factors that must be addressed. And clearly, labor costs will be a critical area, as it is the greatest component of postal costs — accounting for $57 billion or 76 percent of total costs in fiscal year 2018. As a result, we wanted to gain a clearer understanding of the sources of these significant costs and how they have changed in recent years.

Our objective was to determine the (1) extent to which participating disability determination services (DDS) used the Disability Case Processing System (DCPS) to process their workloads and (2) reasonableness of the Social Security Administration's (SSA) cost and schedule estimates for its DCPS.

Our objective was to determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) processed Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) underpayments accurately via the Manual Adjustment, Credit, and Award Data Entry system.