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HRD-93-10R 1 (1993-01-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackfl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ) United Sttes General Accounting Offne Washington, D.C. 20548 Human Resources Division January 27, 1993 The Honorable Bob Graham United States Senate 148428 Dear Senator Graham: On May 14, 1992, you sent us information about wage reporting problems that one of your constituents encountered with the Social Security Administration (SSA). This constituent, Mr. Carl Owenby, Jr., provides tax services for employers, including the reporting of wages paid to workers. These wage reports are sent to SSA so that it can update workers' earnings records for social security program purposes. Later, SSA shares the wage information with the Internal Revenue Service for tax administration purposes. Mr. Owenby provided correspondence with SSA that outlined several problems he encountered when filing wage reports on magnetic media for three of his clients. According to him, SSA had improperly returned wage reports he submitted for three employers and temporarily lost one set of the wage reports that he resubmitted. You asked that we review this situation and provide you our comments. The details of Mr. Owenby's problems and the results of our inquiry into them follow. IMPROPER RETURN OF WAGE REPORTS Mr. Owenby's concerns relate to separate sets of 1991 wage reports that he prepared and filed on computer disks for three employers. SSA records show that it received the three computer disks on January 17, 1992. SSA returned the disks to Mr. Owenby by letter dated May 2, 1992, advising him that it was unable to process the reports as he submitted them because (1) required data were not properly sequenced and (2) important records were missing. SSA said that the missing information included the identity of the employer, the tax year of the wage reports, the type of computer equipment used to prepare the report, employee wage records, and required wage totals. GAO/HRD-93-10R, SSA Problems in Processing Wage Reports

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