Payments Deposited into Bank Accounts After Beneficiaries Are Deceased
- Audit report number
- A-02-13-13052
- Management challenge
- Improve the Prevention, Detection, and Recovery of Improper Payments
- Full report
- /~assets/audits/full/a-02-13-13052.pdf
- Summary report
- /~assets/audits/summary/summary-13052.pdf
In this report, our objective was to determine the effectiveness of the Social Security Administration’s procedures for recovering payments improperly deposited into Title II beneficiaries’ bank accounts after their deaths. Specifically, we focused on payments SSA issued between the date of death and the date payments were suspended or terminated.
