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 ...

Firewalls require constant updating and refreshing, but many higher education institutions are still hoping for protection ...

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

A federal audit at Glenn Valley Foods this spring found that of 177 employees at the plant, 107 were suspected of working with either fraudulent or inadequate documentation, according to ...

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 ...

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.

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Another agency audit, which looked only at payments to retired workers, survivors and people with disabilities, found fraud was listed as the cause behind just 3 percent of improper benefit payments.

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 ...

Gov. JB Pritzker’s administration vastly underestimated the costs of a healthcare program for noncitizen immigrants, which enrolled thousands who should have been ineligible, an audit finds.

Musk called the 20 million people receiving Social Security past age 100 "the biggest fraud in history," on X (formerly Twitter).