Come January 20 The GOP Owns This

<br />     From a recent report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG):<br /><br /><br />While the total number of visitors to all SSA [Social Security Administration] field offices steadily <br />increased between<br /> Fiscal Years (FY) 2006 and<br /> 2010, the number of <br />visitors began declining in FY<br /> 2011 and declined each<br /> year through <br />FY<br /> 2015. The <br />annual number of visitors to all SSA field offices <br />

Come January 20 The GOP Owns This

     From a recent report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG): While the total number of visitors to all SSA [Social ...

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Social Security's Workload Won't Level Off For A Long Time

<br /><br /><br />From SSA OIG<br /><br /><br />

Social Security's Workload Won't Level Off For A Long Time

From SSA OIG

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Hearing Backlog Continues To Climb

<br /><br /><br />From SSA OIG<br /><br /><br />

Hearing Backlog Continues To Climb

From SSA OIG

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Errors In Applying WEP

<br />     From a recent report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG):<br /><br /><br />SSA [Social Security Administration] needs to improve its controls to ensure WEP [Windfall Elimination Provision] is<br /> timely and <br />accurately applied<br /> for Federal pensions. We determined<br /> WEP<br />should have been applied to 14 of the 250 beneficiaries sampled<br />. <br />We did not identify any beneficiaries for whom GPO

Errors In Applying WEP

     From a recent report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG): SSA [Social Security Administration] needs to improve ...

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Security Issues With Social Security's Online Systems

<br /><br />     Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released only a stub of a report on security in Social Security's online services but it's enough to strongly suggest there are problems. The agency admits that it needs a "higher degree of confidence in users’ asserted identities" and OIG says it is "imperative" that the agency do so "as soon as possible."<br /><br />

Security Issues With Social Security's Online Systems

     Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released only a stub of a report on security in Social Security's onlin...

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The Backlogs Are Horrible

<br />     From a recent report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG):<br /><br /><br />As of March 2016, ODAR [Office of Disability Adjudication and Review] had about 1.1 million pending claims <br />awaiting <br />a hearing decision with the average age of 318 days, <br />measured as the time from the date of the hearing request. The <br />volume and age of pending hearing cases has increased<br /> since <br />FY<br /> [Fiscal

The Backlogs Are Horrible

     From a recent report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG): As of March 2016, ODAR [Office of Disability Adjudicat...

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Are You Kidding Me? A 48% Error Rate?

<br /><br />     From a recent report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG):<br /><br /><br />Our objective was to determine whether the Social Security <br />Administration<br /> (SSA) correctly <br />completed manual actions to bill for Medicare premiums owed by beneficiaries whose monthly <br />Social Security benefit<br /> was<br /> less than the monthly <br />Medicare premium.  <br /><br />When an individual entitled to Medicare Part B

Are You Kidding Me? A 48% Error Rate?

     From a recent report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG): Our objective was to determine whether the Social Secu...

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Boring OIG Report On DCPS

<br />     From a recent report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG):<br /><br /><br />In <br />a February 13, 2015 letter to the Inspector General,<br /> Sam Johnson, Chairman of the <br />Subcommittee on Social Security, House Committee on Ways and Means, expressed his <br />continued concerns regarding the development of DCPS [Disabilty Case Processing System]. Specifically, Chairman Johnson <br />requested that we

Boring OIG Report On DCPS

     From a recent report by Social Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG): In a February 13, 2015 letter to the Inspector General...

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