The Social Security Administration’s Oversight of Representative Payees
- Audit report number
- A-13-09-29141
- Full report
- /~assets/audits/full/a-13-09-29141.pdf
- Summary report
- /~assets/audits/summary/29141.pdf
Objective: To provide information related to the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) oversight of its representative payees. Specifically, our objective was to provide the information requested in the following areas.
- Unimplemented recommendations from prior Office of the Inspector General (OIG) representative payee audits and evaluations.
- Unimplemented recommendations made by the National Academies in its 2007 report on representative payees.
- Representative payees serving as a job placement or job referral service.
- Representative payees serving as employers to the beneficiaries they represent.
