The Office of the Chief Actuary deals with the financial impact of risk and uncertainty. They provide expert assessments of financial security systems, with a focus on their complexity, their mathematics, and their mechanisms.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is known as "the investigative arm of Congress". GAO helps improve the performance and accountability of the federal government for the benefit of the American people.
The Social Security Administration's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has the following responsibilities:
- Promotes economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in the administration of Social Security programs.
- Prevents and detects fraud, waste and abuse in Social Security’s programs and operations.
- Informs Social Security and Congress about problems and deficiencies and recommends corrective action.
Read OIG's
reports,
investigations,
news releases,
stories, and
testimonies.
Also visit OIG's
Facebook,
Twitter and
YouTube pages,
as well as its blog called "Beyond the Numbers."
The Freedom of Information Act creates procedures whereby members of the public may obtain SSA records.
Contact the Open Government Team
This page is designed to help you contact the Open Government team specifically. Click here for more ways to contact the Social Security Administration.
Alan Lane
Associate Commissioner for Open Government
Address:
6401 Security Blvd
West High Rise Rm. 1126
Baltimore, MD 21235
Email: open.government@ssa.gov
We welcome your feedback about open government, so please use this email address and the form below
to share your thoughts about that. For your protection, please do not include any
personally identifiable information in your email message to us. Also, note that this email channel
is not the place to send inquiries about any claims or other specific business you
have with us. Please visit our agency contact page to find out how
to contact us for those purposes.
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We used our idea-sharing tool, "OpenSocialSecurity," to capture your ideas for creating our Open Government Plan. We received many ideas on how we could increase our transparency, participation, collaboration and innovation.
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Under certain circumstances, Social Security can provide a speaker to discuss our programs, benefits, and services. We provide speakers free of charge, and they are generally available during business hours only. Please note that we are not able to fulfill all requests.
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The Administration is committed to creating an open and transparent government through the following initiatives:
Alan Lane
Associate Commissioner for Open Government
Address:
6401 Security Blvd
West High Rise Rm. 1126
Baltimore, MD 21235
Email: open.government@ssa.gov