However, the audit found “almost none” of those people were receiving Social Security payments. The agency hasn’t updated the database because fixing it would cost anywhere from $5.5 to $9.7 ...

In a related but somewhat different audit that has been in the news lately, Ennis in 2023 also looked into the 18.9 million entries in the Social Security Administration’s “Numident” master ...

In a related but somewhat different audit that has been in the news lately, Ennis in 2023 also looked into the 18.9 million entries in the Social Security Administration’s “Numident” master ...

The same inspector general’s office found in a March 2015 audit that 6.5 million people with Social Security numbers but no ...

Internal audits have found little waste or fraud in Social Security. The $72 billion in “improper” payments reported in 2024 represent less than 1% of all benefit payments between 2015 and 2022.

While an audit published in 2023 found that the central Social Security database, known as the Numident, does include 18.9 million people born before 1920 who do not have death information on ...