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Social Security Beneficiaries Who Have Direct Payment While Receiving Veterans Affairs’ Benefits Through a Representative Payee

Audit report number
A-01-18-50380
Management challenge
Improve Administration of the Disability Programs
Full report
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Summary report
/~assets/uploads/a-01-18-50380summary.pdf

Objective: Our objective was to determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) should use data from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) as a lead to trigger a capability assessment when beneficiaries with direct payment receive VA benefits through a representative payee (payee).

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