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Parole and Probation Violators and the Clark Court Order

Audit report number
A-01-12-11215
Management challenge
Improve the Prevention, Detection, and Recovery of Improper Payments
Full report
/~assets/audits/full/a-01-12-11215.pdf
Summary report
/~assets/audits/summary/summary-11215.pdf

On April 13, 2012, a U.S. District Court judge in New York issued a nation-wide class action court order in Clark v. Astrue (Clark). The court order prevented the Social Security Administration (SSA) from suspending or denying Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance benefits and Supplemental Security Income payments based solely on the existence of parole or probation violation arrest warrants.

In this audit, our objective was to assess SSA's implementation of the Clark court order.

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