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Follow-up on Deceased Representative Payees

July 12, 2019

Office Affiliation: The Office of Audit

Audit Report Number: A-01-18-50350

We issued this to determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) identified, and took appropriate action on, all cases in which a new representative payee was needed when a current representative payee died.

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