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HRD-78-28 1 (1978-08-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaxvy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DOCUMENT RESUME 07014 - (B2367430 I fReplacinq dissinq Supplemental Security Income Checks: Recipients Waiting Longer than Necessary. HED-78-28; B-164031(4). August 22, 1970. 28 pp. + 3 eppcndices (7 Ff.). Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptrcller Genezal. Issue Arti: Income Security Programs: Program monitoring and Administration (1303). Contact: Human Resources Div. Budqet Function: Income Security: Public Assistance and Other Income Supplements (604); General Government: Central Fiscal Operations (803). Orqanization Concerned: Department of Health, Education, and Welfare: Department of the Treasury; Sccial Security Ad ministr& tion. Congressional selevance: House Committee on Ways and Means; Senate Committee on Finance; Congress. Authority: 31 U.S.C. 528. 42 U.S.C. 1381. 42 U.S.C. 1383(g). H.R. 8911 (94th Cong.). H.R. 6124 (95th Cong.). Supplemental Security 'ncome (SSI) is intended to provide a minimum income level for aged, blind, or disabled people having little or no means of self-support. About 28,000 recipients each month .'eport that they have not received their SSI checks. Findings/Conclusions: The Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Treasury Department have a system for replacing checks reported missing, but the system has problems and many recipients wait a long time tefore receiving checks. SSA began an expedited check replacement system in August 1974 which cod.u replace checks within 10 days. Hcwever, extensive delays were still caused by -roklems such as errors in enterinq inform&tion into the computer. Additional changes made by SSA in April 1977 resulted in rapid replacement cf sce chr ks but did not correct the problems of delays caused by incorrect processing. The current system is de3igned to rerlace missing checks within 4 to 6 days if district offices enter correct information into the central computer. Bills introduced in the Congress either authorize SSA to reimburse State and local agencies that make emergency loans to people who do not receive their checks or require SSI to replace checks within a short t.'.me period. The emergency lcar proposal would rpluire extensive management controls and considerable coordiaaticn with the States. Replacing checks in a short time period cotld be costly or difficult to implement. Recommendations: The Commissioner of SSA should be directed to improve the present check replacement system by: requiring district offices to make periodic reviews of nonreceipt transmissions for accuracy, establishing contrcls to assure timely processing of rejected nonreceipt claims, and emphasizing the need for district offices to input changes of address. The Congress, if it believes recipients who do not receive their SSI checks shculd be

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