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HRD-80-15 1 (1980-01-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobababw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I I IN 10I UNITED STATiES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFCE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 HUMAN RESOURCES DIVISION B-125051 JANUARY 4,1980 The Honorable Patricia Roberts Harris The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 111204 Dear Mrs. Harris: Subject: changes Needed to Prevent Commuters and Transients From Receiving Supplemental Security Incom (HRD-80-15) We recently completed a review of the adequacy of the Social Security Administration's (SSA's) policies, proce- dures, and practices directed at determining whether Supple- mental Security Income (SSI) recipients are outside the United States for 30 or more consecutive days and thus in- eligible for continued benefit payments. We found no sig- nificant problems in SSA's operation for detecting recipients outside the United States for 30 or more consecutive days. To be eligible for benefits, recipients must be residents of the United States. However, the concept of resident in the United States has not been sufficiently defined. Some SSI recipients along the Mexican border resided principally outside the United States and received benefits. While our work did not reveal a similar problem along the Canadian border, SSA field officials in New York and Vermont indicated it could occur there as well. Nineteen of SSA's field offices are responsible for handling SSI claims in jurisdictions bordering Mexico. According to SSA, about 64,000 recipients covered by these offices were paid almost $8 million during September 1979. How many reside prin- cipally outside the United States is unknown. While residency is not clearly defined in the act or its legislative history, we do not believe that the Congress intended benefits to be paid to recipients who live in the (105053)

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