From Follow-up on Dually Entitled Beneficiaries and Family Maximum Provisions, a report by Social Security’s Inspector General:
… This is a follow up to our 2014 audit of the Adjustment of Monthly Benefits Under the Family Maximum Provisions. For our current audit, we identified 23,603 Social Security records with dually entitled beneficiaries and at least 2 other beneficiaries who had a date of entitlement of May 2013 or later and were in current pay status as of May 2023. We selected a random sample of 225 records for review. …
We estimate SSA correctly adjusted benefits in accordance with the family maximum provisions for 15,211 of the 23,603 wage earners’ records in our population (64 percent); however, SSA improperly paid approximately $114 million to spouses and children on 8,392 wage earners’ records (36 percent). …
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When you cannot change the facts, or are powerless to alter outcomes, you change the method of accounting. Bisignano will say that the study is inaccurate. Thet when he came to SSA, staff gave him different numbers for everything under the sun. No single source of truth existed. That he is correcting this, in using the ledger as the official source of truth. His ledger will ultimately report that this problem, and many other challenges, are overblown, and not reflected in the 'books'. It will be an apples to oranges comparison, yet enough to satisfy political allies.
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