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Higher Benefits for Dually Entitled Widow(er)s Had They Delayed Applying for Retirement Benefits

Audit report number
A-09-18-50559
Management challenge
Improve the Prevention, Detection, and Recovery of Improper Payments
Full report
/~assets/audits/full/a-09-18-50559.pdf
Summary report
/~assets/audits/summary/a-09-18-50559_summary.pdf

We issued this report to determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) had adequate controls to inform widow(er) beneficiaries of their option to delay their application for retirement benefits.

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