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Match of Puerto Rico Death Information Against Social Security Records

Audit report number
A-08-14-14013
Management challenge
Improve the Prevention, Detection, and Recovery of Improper Payments
Full report
/~assets/audits/full/a-08-14-14013.pdf
Summary report
/~assets/audits/summary/a-08-14-14013summary.pdf

We issued this to (1) determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) made payments to beneficiaries and representative payees who were deceased according to Puerto Rico Department of Health vital records and (2) identify non-beneficiaries who were deceased according to Puerto Rico vital records but whose death information did not appear in SSA records.

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