Social Security Addressing Aged Records
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The Social Security Administration (SSA) today shared its significant progress in identifying and correcting beneficiary records of people 100 years old or older. The data reported in the media represent people who do not have a date of death associated with their record. While these people may not be receiving benefits, it is important for the agency to maintain accurate and complete records.
“I thank President Trump for highlighting these inconsistencies during his speech last night to a joint session of Congress,” said Lee Dudek, Acting Commissioner of Social Security. “We are steadfast in our commitment to root out fraud, waste, and abuse in our programs, and actively correcting the inconsistencies with missing dates of death.”
The agency follows long established program integrity initiatives that identify people who have a higher likelihood of being deceased due to their age or incomplete death reports. For example, SSA receives data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of individuals who have not used Medicare Part A or Part B for three or more years. SSA uses the data as an indicator to select and prioritize cases of individuals age 90 or older, who are currently in pay status and living in the United States, to determine continued eligibility for Social Security benefits. The agency attempts to conduct an interview with these individuals to verify they are still alive. If the agency identifies someone is deceased, it immediately stops payment and reports any suspicions of fraud to SSA’s Office of the Inspector General.
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Brent M.
So why are these “fibs” not called what they are?
Bernie X.
Why does it take literally hours for you to answer the phone?
James S.
You all are doing great work!
Real managers would quietly point out deficiencies, and have them corrected .
Not grandstand in front of the world.
But, we don’t have a real manager.
Brent M.
In other words it was lie…
Brent M.
In other words Trump et al were lying and just wasted a lot of money finding out that it was a lie – one they’ll never have the guts to call by it’s proper name!!
Justina
Just 2 weeks ago dudek tried to explain away the doge claims. Now it seems donnie may have backed dudek into a corner: support my lies or else.
Lie with dogs, get up with fleas.
Dan
I do not believe anything is the way of statistics coming out of the current administration. Most of these figures being thrown at us are errant and have been previously debunked.
Georgia
The incorrect information previously released to the public on social media, was done purposefully to further anger and divide us, and continue to create an atmosphere of mistrust in our government. The administration let people with zero knowledge of the database system scroll through our personal data without having any background checks, which is illegal. Then they “identified fraud” without asking the people in charge what the data even meant. These misunderstandings could have been addressed so easily, but they wanted to put this disinformation out to the public for nefarious reasons. Now, they are acting like everything is fine, and they are addressing the issues, etc. No, just like many other “crisis” and “fraud” allegations, they are creating it. By the way, people who are dead and still in the system, does not mean they are getting benefits. Millions of survivor benefits are being paid to children and spouses of deceased beneficiaries.
Candido I.
La eficiencia tiene que ser prioritario para la buena marcha de este gobierno, y los demócratas como se pudo ver anoche no están resueltos a apoyar las medidas de nuestro presidente, pero las cosas se van a ir arreglando apoye a su presidente gracias por la labor que esta haciendo.
Adam
May not be receiving is different than not receiving compensation.
Karen A.
It would be helpful to publish the percentage of these extreme age cases that are still receiving benefits, as well as the percentage of the resolved cases that turned out to be fraud vs no fraud.