Follow-up: Payments to Individuals Whose Numident Record Contained a Death Entry
- Audit report number
- A-06-17-50232
- Management challenge
- Improve the Prevention, Detection, and Recovery of Improper Payments
- Full report
- /~assets/audits/full/a-06-17-50232.pdf
- Summary report
- /~assets/audits/summary/a-06-17-50232-summary.pdf
Our objective was to determine the appropriateness of benefits the Social Security Administration (SSA) paid to individuals whose Numident record contained a date of death.
In a 2009 audit, we determined SSA issued approximately $40 million in improper payments to more than 6,000 beneficiaries although it had received notification they were deceased. In a 2013 audit, we determined SSA had issued about $31 million in improper payments to 2,475 beneficiaries although it had received notification they were deceased.
