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Cross-referred Social Security Numbers

Audit report number
A-06-13-23091
Management challenge
Improve the Prevention, Detection, and Recovery of Improper Payments
Full report
/~assets/audits/full/a-06-13-23091.pdf
Summary report
/~assets/audits/summary/a-06-13-23091summary.pdf

We issued this report to determine (1) the validity of payments the Social Security Administration (SSA) issued simultaneously under multiple cross-referred Social Security numbers (SSN) and (2) whether death information input on the Numident record of one SSN was also recorded on the Numident record(s) of the cross-referred SSN(s).

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