Employees neglected to check SSA files against death records maintained by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
This week’s Golden Horseshoe goes to the Social Security Administration, which paid $125.2 million to more than 2,500 deceased beneficiaries because agency employees failed to add death dates to its records, according to a final audit report by the agency’s Office of Inspector General.
The internal watchdog performed the audit to determine if the SSA was checking its files of deceased against death records maintained by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
“We identified 3,084 current beneficiaries whose personally identifiable information matched that of a deceased individual in the CMS death data,” the IG report states.
The OIG provided SSA the beneficiaries’ death information in February 2020. As of July 2021, SSA staff had “terminated payments to 2,679 beneficiaries and determined it had issued $125.2 million in payments after the beneficiaries’ deaths,” the auditors reported. “Identification and correction of these discrepancies prevented $33.9 million in additional improper payments over a 12-month period.”
SSA staff had also “determined 142 of the beneficiaries were alive, and CMS death information was erroneous,” according to the audit report.
Conducting a random sampling of 50 cases to determine why SSA continued to pay out benefits to thousands after they died, the OIG found agency staff failed to add the deaths to their records even after receiving a death alert in a majority of the cases.
“We found SSA had previously received death information for 42 beneficiaries from CMS and/or states but did not add the death information to its records or terminate the beneficiaries’ payments,” the OIG reported. “In 12 of the 50 cases we reviewed, SSA received the beneficiaries’ death information, and SSA systems sent death alerts to the beneficiaries’ servicing field offices for verification. However, for unknown reasons, SSA employees cleared the death alerts without posting the death information to SSA records.”
How many voted Democrat, I wonder.
Biden just Dispersed Pallets of $100.00 Bills to the TALIBAN !!!!!! FACT (On Video )
No surprise I wouldn’t be surprised if it really wouldn’t be a lot more.There are no checks and balances I bet half of the detainees at the southern border have social security cards, drivers licenses and forged id’s. And they will have voters ID cards so they can vote in the next presidential election. It is not hard for the left and the Dems to do anything to have control. They will be moved out across the country and take the jobs of those that are living on stimulus checks and don’t want to work. And when those stimulus checks come to a real stop then our citizens will be crying they can’t find work. This nation and our leaders have ruined this country our children andgrand children will be the ones to have to live with all the wrongs in the last 9 mos and especially since the 2020 election.
How many Billions to the GOVT I want to know > How many Billions to Illegals & Afghanistans ????????
Govt should have to PAY BACK the Social Security $$$$$$ it STOLE since Johnson in the 60’s + Interest !!!!!!
It went to the Democrats !!!!!!
Sounds like the 2020 election when Democrats were counting DECEASED VOTERS !!!!! Had to be them !!!!
Oh, such top notch employees we have these days. Do your damn job you were hired to do and leave the phone home while you’re at work.
Way to go S. S. And those of us still barely living can’t get a raise of enough to cover the medicare raise .
That went to Pelosi !!!!!!
How much did they give Illegals of OUR $$$$$ ?????
Al Sharpton & Farakon got the money !!!!!!
Govt cuts our Stimulus while pissing away Billions to Illegals & Afghans !!!!!!
Social security is OUR damn $$$$$$ Not the fkkking GOVT’s !!!! PERIOD