Audit Reports
Improve the Prevention, Detection, and Recovery of Improper Payments
SSA is responsible for issuing approximately $1 trillion in benefit payments annually; even the slightest error in the overall payment process can result in millions of dollars in improper payments. Improper payments may occur when SSA makes mistakes in computing payments or fails to obtain or act on available information, or when beneficiaries’ fail to report events or provide incorrect reports.
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Supplemental Security Income Recipients Receiving Social Security Administration Payments in Accounts Outside the United States
September 29, 2022
Follow-up on Controls over Special Payment Amount Overpayments for Social Security Beneficiaries
September 29, 2022
The Social Security Administration’s Challenges and Successes in Obtaining Data to Determine Eligibility and Payment Amounts
September 23, 2022
Follow-up on Processing Internal Revenue Service Alerts for Supplemental Security Income Recipients
September 20, 2022
Lump-Sum Death Payments to Survivors of Wage Earners with No Death Information on the Numident
August 30, 2022
Incorrect Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance Benefit Payment Computations that Resulted in Overpayments
May 26, 2022
Match of California Death Information Against Social Security Administration Records
September 24, 2021
Match of Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Death Information Against Social Security Administration Records
August 13, 2021
Follow-up on Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance Benefits Affected by State and Local Pensions
July 30, 2021
Redeterminations Social Security Administration Employees Closed without Assessing Resources
July 21, 2021
Match of Alabama, Georgia, and Illinois Death Information Against Social Security Administration Records
June 09, 2021
Follow-up on Transferring Supplemental Security Income Overpayments from Prior Records to the Current Record for Recovery
June 03, 2021
Match of Louisiana Death Information Against Social Security Administration Records
December 22, 2020
Follow-up on Underpayments Payable to Terminated Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance Beneficiaries
December 11, 2020
Match of Mississippi Death Information Against Social Security Administration Records
December 11, 2020
Follow-up on Disabled Supplemental Security Income Recipients Potentially Eligible for Childhood Disability Benefits
December 10, 2020
Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance Benefits to Individuals Who Are Recorded as Deceased on the Supplemental Security Record
December 09, 2020
Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance Child Beneficiaries Receiving Benefits Under Multiple Records
December 07, 2020
Supplemental Security Income Recipients Denied Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance Benefits Based on Lack of Technical Evidence
November 30, 2020
Benefits Payable to Widow(er)s Subject to Government Pension Offset Had They Delayed Their Application
November 19, 2020
Match of Kentucky Death Information Against Social Security Administration Records
September 15, 2020
Match of New Hampshire and Vermont Death Information Against Social Security Administration Records
June 22, 2020
Match of Pennsylvania Death Information Against Social Security Administration Records
March 23, 2020
Match of Delaware Death Information Against Social Security Administration Records
November 27, 2019
Match of Maine and Rhode Island Death Data Against Social Security Administration Records
September 26, 2019
Match of New Mexico Death Information Against Social Security Administration Records
September 05, 2019
Follow-up: Minor Children Receiving Social Security Benefits Without a Representative Payee
June 06, 2019