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Match of California Death Information Against Social Security Administration Records

September 24, 2021

Audit report number: A-06-18-50706
Management challenge: Improve the Prevention, Detection, and Recovery of Improper Payments
Full report: /~assets/uploads/a-06-18-50706.pdf
Summary report: /~assets/uploads/a-06-18-50706summary.pdf

Objective: To (1) determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) made payments to beneficiaries and/or representative payees who were deceased according to California Department of Public Health records and (2) identify non-beneficiaries in the State files whose death information did not appear in Agency records.

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Match of California Death Information Against Social Security Administration Records

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