Excess Withholding of Government Pension Offset
February 04, 2015
Office Affiliation: The Office of Audit
Audit Report Number: A-09-14-14052
Government Pension Offset (GPO) reduces monthly Social Security benefits for spouses and surviving spouses who receive a pension based on their employment for a Federal, State, or local government not covered by Social Security. In this report, our objective was to determine whether the Social Security Administration had adequate controls to identify and pay spousal beneficiaries who had an excess withholding of GPO.