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.
Social Security Information and Data
The Social Security Administration has a history of providing information and data about our program and processes
through our websites and traditional paper publications. Here, we aim to provide you with convenient, one-stop access
to high value datasets along with explanations about the data. As you browse the list below, click on the dataset title
to see more information about the dataset. Also, you can use the direct download links to the right of the title to go
straight to the data files. We also submitted many of these datasets to the federal government data catalog,
Data.gov. Clicking the logo link next to any dataset listing will bring you to the
opening page for that dataset at the Data.gov site. In addition, you can
view the catalog of SSA data along with data from many other agencies.
Service to the Public and Case Processing Information
Applications Filed via the Internet
Disability Program and Processing Data
Statistical and Survey Data
Quality Information
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Reports
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.
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.
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
