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HRD-79-27 1 (1978-12-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaayjm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 HUMAN RKOURM Ol~tltON B-164031(4) December 22, 1978 The Honorable Joseph A. Califano, Jr. The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare A-66 C Dear Mr. Secretary: We are currently examining alternatives to financing student benefits under the Social Security Administration's (SSA's) Retirement, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program, established under title II of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. 402(d)(1)(B)(i). As part of this review, we identified some payment problems and potential program abuses which we believe merit your attention. Based on our examination of student benefit payments made in May 1977, we found that SSA made 329 duplicate payments. Of these duplicate student payments, SSA identified 99 but did not detect the remaining 230. These payments were not discovered because SSA's daily detection system is not fully operational, and its annual duplicate detection system criteria are too restrictive. (See p. 2, enc. I.) Our calculation of the duplicate payments for the 230 students amounted to $616,000 for all months duplicate student payments were made through June 1978. In identify- ing these duplicate payments, we considered social security number, name, address, date of birth, and other family members' names to determine whether the students appeared to be the same or different persons. SSA considers student beneficiaries, aged 18 to 22, as dependent children. Most dependent children, however, are under age 18. If the $616,000 calculation of undetected duplicate student payments is typical of all dependent chil- dren for whom benefits were being paid in May 1977, the total undetected duplicate payments could amount to about $4.2 million for all months duplicate payments were made through June 1978. i llllnl~l~lllll lll ° SII I 1111111111 (105033) 108215 o2930

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