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Federal Reports
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Social Security Administration
The Social Security Administration’s Processing of Misuse Allegations of Individual Representative Payees
The objective was to determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) complied with its policies and procedures for allegations of misuse by individual representative payees (payee) who served 14 or fewer beneficiaries. Specifically, we examined SSA’s negligence determinations and whether it reimbursed beneficiaries and obtained restitution of misused funds from payees.
Jean Francois Picard, a medical marketer based in Los Angeles, was sentenced in United States District Court, Southern District of California, on June 14, 2021, to 10 months in prison and three years of probation for payment of illegal remunerations. Our investigation found that Picard paid kickbacks to other marketers for facilitating the referral of prescriptions for medically unnecessary compounded drugs and other items reimbursed by health care benefit programs. As a result of the scheme, Amtrak’s insurance providers were fraudulently charged approximately $22,000. Criminal judicial proceedings for other defendants in this case are pending.
Financial Audit of the Gomal Zam Dam Command Area Development Project in Pakistan Managed by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives Department, Grant 391-DOA-GZDCADP-001-001, July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020
Closeout Audit of Community Maternal, Neonatal, Child Health and Nutrition Scale Up Follow-on Program Managed by the Integrated Midwives Association of the Philippines, Inc., Cooperative Agreement AID-492-A-16-00004, August 1, 2016, to December 31, 2019
Our objective was to determine whether actions the Social Security Administration has taken since our March 2011 report, Follow-up: Personally Identifiable Information Made Available to the Public Via the Death Master File (A-06-10-20173), effectively mitigated PII breaches.
