Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance Overpayments Pending Collection
- Audit report number
- A-02-15-35001
- Management challenge
- Improve the Prevention, Detection, and Recovery of Improper Payments
- Full report
- /~assets/audits/full/a-02-15-35001.pdf
- Summary report
- /~assets/audits/summary/summary-35001.pdf
An overpayment is the total amount an individual received for any period that exceeded the total amount the individual should have been paid for that period. With a few exceptions, overpaid individuals are responsible for repaying the overpayments. SSA uses different methods to recover overpayments, such as benefit adjustment, the Treasury Offset Program, and Administrative Wage Garnishment.
In this report, we sought to assess the Social Security Administration’s efforts to recover Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) overpayments that had been outstanding for 12 months or longer.
