singular_me
11th March 2015, 12:28 PM
looks like most of SS data entry level employees spend their time tweeting
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Millions over age 112 have Social Security numbers, and it’s not because we’re living longer
march 10, 2015
An audit of the Social Security Administration released this month by the Office of the Inspector General revealed that the SSA has failed to record the deaths of more than 6.5 million people.
Thousands of workers over the age of 100 applied to verify their employment eligibility through the U.S. government in recent years.
It’s not a trend toward an older workforce, but a sign of identity fraud, according to federal auditors.
A recent watchdog review found that at least 6.5 million active Social Security numbers belong to people who are at least 112 years old and likely deceased................
Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)and Tom Carper (D-Del.), who head the Senate committee that oversees the Social Security Administration, said in a joint statement on Monday that the agency needs to clean up its files to prevent fraud.
“It is incredible that the Social Security Administration in 2015 does not have the technical sophistication to ensure that people they know to be deceased are actually noted as dead,” Johnson said. “This problem has serious consequences.”
“Not only do these types of avoidable errors waste millions of taxpayers’ dollars annually and expose our citizens to identify theft, but they also undermine confidence in our government,” Carper said.
Auditors proposed that the Social Security Administration take action to correct its death records, but the agency disagreed, saying it doesn’t want to divert resources away from efforts to improve payment accuracy with benefits.
“The recommendations would create a significant manual and labor-intensive workload and provide no benefit to the administration of our programs,” Social Security management said in a response to the review.
The agency agreed to other proposals, including one to resolve cases in which multiple individuals are using the same number.''
Josh Hicks covers the federal government and anchors the Federal Eye blog. He reported for newspapers in the Detroit and Seattle suburbs before joining the Post as a contributor to Glenn Kessler’s Fact Checker blog in 2011.
full
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/03/10/thousands-of-u-s-workers-older-than-100-that-might-be-social-security-fraud/
or
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/10/65m-people-with-active-social-security-numbers-are/
or
Read more at http://rare.us/story/the-social-security-administration-thinks-there-are-6-5-million-112-year-olds-in-america/#PBBSQuQP5RQgQw7x.99
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Millions over age 112 have Social Security numbers, and it’s not because we’re living longer
march 10, 2015
An audit of the Social Security Administration released this month by the Office of the Inspector General revealed that the SSA has failed to record the deaths of more than 6.5 million people.
Thousands of workers over the age of 100 applied to verify their employment eligibility through the U.S. government in recent years.
It’s not a trend toward an older workforce, but a sign of identity fraud, according to federal auditors.
A recent watchdog review found that at least 6.5 million active Social Security numbers belong to people who are at least 112 years old and likely deceased................
Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.)and Tom Carper (D-Del.), who head the Senate committee that oversees the Social Security Administration, said in a joint statement on Monday that the agency needs to clean up its files to prevent fraud.
“It is incredible that the Social Security Administration in 2015 does not have the technical sophistication to ensure that people they know to be deceased are actually noted as dead,” Johnson said. “This problem has serious consequences.”
“Not only do these types of avoidable errors waste millions of taxpayers’ dollars annually and expose our citizens to identify theft, but they also undermine confidence in our government,” Carper said.
Auditors proposed that the Social Security Administration take action to correct its death records, but the agency disagreed, saying it doesn’t want to divert resources away from efforts to improve payment accuracy with benefits.
“The recommendations would create a significant manual and labor-intensive workload and provide no benefit to the administration of our programs,” Social Security management said in a response to the review.
The agency agreed to other proposals, including one to resolve cases in which multiple individuals are using the same number.''
Josh Hicks covers the federal government and anchors the Federal Eye blog. He reported for newspapers in the Detroit and Seattle suburbs before joining the Post as a contributor to Glenn Kessler’s Fact Checker blog in 2011.
full
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/03/10/thousands-of-u-s-workers-older-than-100-that-might-be-social-security-fraud/
or
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/10/65m-people-with-active-social-security-numbers-are/
or
Read more at http://rare.us/story/the-social-security-administration-thinks-there-are-6-5-million-112-year-olds-in-america/#PBBSQuQP5RQgQw7x.99