Match of Maine and Rhode Island Death Data Against Social Security Administration Records
- Audit report number
- A-01-18-50314
- Management challenge
- Improve the Prevention, Detection, and Recovery of Improper Payments
- Full report
- /~assets/audits/full/a-01-18-50314.pdf
- Summary report
- /~assets/audits/summary/a-01-18-50314summary.pdf
Our objective was to (1) determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) made payments to beneficiaries and/or representative payees who were deceased according to Maine or Rhode Island records and (2) identify non-beneficiaries in the State files whose death information did not appear in the Agency’s records.