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Match of Massachusetts Death Information Against Social Security Records

September 08, 2017

Audit report number: A-01-17-50244
Management challenge: Improve the Prevention, Detection, and Recovery of Improper Payments
Full report: /~assets/audits/full/a-01-17-50244.pdf
Summary report: /~assets/audits/summary/summary-50244.pdf

We issued this report to determine whether individuals listed as deceased by the Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics (MRVRS) were listed in Social Security Administration (SSA) records as receiving Social Security benefit payments or acting as representative payees.

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Match of Massachusetts Death Information Against Social Security Records

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