Office of the Inspector General Audit Recommendations that Had Not Been Implemented as of January 29, 2025

We have compiled Office of Audit (OA) recommendations the Social Security Administration (SSA) had not implemented as of January 29, 2025. We acknowledge SSA’s ongoing efforts to implement the unimplemented recommendations, and OA is following up on SSA’s efforts. Therefore, a recommendation identified as not having been closed as of January 29, 2025 may be closed as a result of actions taken after that date.

In our May 29, 2024 report, we listed 155 unimplemented recommendations SSA also showed as open. As of January 29, 2025, SSA had closed 57 of these recommendations, and we agreed they should have been closed.1 The cumulative Questioned Costs and Funds to be Put to Better Use associated with these implemented recommendations are over $486 million and $83 million, respectively.

Between March 22, 2024 and January 29, 2025, we made 129 recommendations to SSA. The cumulative Questioned Costs and Funds to be Put to Better Use associated with these recent recommendations are over $1.4 billion and $10.5 billion, respectively.

As of January 29, 2025, there were 280 unimplemented audit recommendations: 183 open unimplemented and 97 closed unimplemented. The cumulative estimated Questioned Costs are over $5.2 billion. The cumulative estimated total Funds to be Put to Better Use are over $13.2 billion. The approximate total cost savings are over $18.4 billion.