Federal Reports

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration’s employees fully developed work activity and earnings for Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance disability claimants at the initial and reconsideration levels of the application process.

Attached is Ernst & Young LLP's final audit report. Their objective was to determine the extent to which (1) the Social Security Administration had improved its cyber-security posture by defining and implementing plans to modernize or replace and retire its legacy information technology systems and (2) SSA’s efforts and plans to move to cloud services are consistent with Federal guidance.

Objective: To determine whether the Social Security Administration complied with the Strengthening Protections for Social Security Beneficiaries Act of 2018 and its policies and procedures related to representative payee reviews and educational visits.

The attached final report summarizes Ernst & Young LLP’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 review of the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) information security program and practices, as required by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA). The objective was to determine whether the SSA's overall information security program and practices were effective and consistent with the FISMA requirements, as defined in the FYs 2023-2024 Inspector General FISMA reporting metrics as of July 31, 2024.