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Match of New Mexico Death Information Against Social Security Administration Records

September 05, 2019

Audit report number: A-06-18-50759
Management challenge: Improve the Prevention, Detection, and Recovery of Improper Payments
Full report: /~assets/audits/full/a-06-18-50759.pdf
Summary report: /~assets/audits/summary/a-06-18-50759summary.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 New Mexico Department of Health vital records and (2) identify non-beneficiaries who were deceased according to the State file but whose death information did not appear in the Agency’s records.

Match of New Mexico Death Information Against Social Security Administration Records

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