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The Social Security Administration's Application of the Retirement Insurance Benefits Limitation and Reduced Widow(er)'s Benefit Policy

Audit report number
A-01-13-23095
Management challenge
Improve the Prevention, Detection, and Recovery of Improper Payments
Full report
/~assets/audits/full/a-01-13-23095.pdf
Summary report
/~assets/audits/summary/a-01-13-23095summary.pdf

Our objective was to determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) overpaid widows when it applied the Social Security Act’s Retirement Insurance Benefits (RIB) limitation provision and the reduced widow(er)’s benefit policy.

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