Statutory Benefit Continuation During the Appeals Process for Medical Cessations
- Audit report number
- A-07-17-50127
- Management challenge
- Improve Administration of the Disability Programs
- Full report
- /~assets/audits/full/a-07-17-50127.pdf
- Summary report
- /~assets/audits/summary/a-07-17-50127-summary.pdf
We issued this report to evaluate the financial impact on the Disability Insurance (DI) Trust Fund and the General Fund of the U.S. Treasury when individuals continued receiving benefit payments during appeals of medical cessation determinations that administrative law judges (ALJ) upheld.