Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance Benefits to Individuals Who Are Recorded as Deceased on the Supplemental Security Record

Date: 
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Management Challenge: 
Improve the Prevention, Detection, and Recovery of Improper Payments
Report Number: 
A-13-17-50176
Report Type: 
Audit Report
Office Affiliation: 
The Office of Audit

Our objective was to determine whether the Social Security Administration (SSA) was incorrectly issuing Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) benefits to individuals who were recorded as deceased on the Agency’s Supplemental Security Record (SSR).