Cost-benefit Analysis of Processing Low-dollar Overpayments
- Audit report number
- A-07-14-14065
- Management challenge
- Improve the Prevention, Detection, and Recovery of Improper Payments
- Full report
- /~assets/audits/full/a-07-14-14065.pdf
- Summary report
- /~assets/audits/summary/summary-14065.pdf
Benefit payments greater than the amount to which individuals are entitled are considered overpayments. When the Social Security Administration determines an individual has been overpaid, it generally initiates recovery actions regardless of the dollar amount.
In this report, we analyzed the cost-benefit of processing overpayments for the Retirement and Survivors Insurance (RSI), Disability Insurance (DI), and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs.
