Posted on 08/12/2024 8:30:04 AM PDT by bitt
Less Staff, Increased Workloads, Decreased Funding Led to Unprecedented Backlog FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
As a backlog of payment actions affecting Social Security beneficiaries continues to mount, so does a rise in the Agency’s improper payments. As of February 2024, SSA’s pending actions backlog reached an all-time high of 5.2 million pending actions, resulting in $1.1 billion in improper payments.
According to the report issued by its Inspector General, Reducing Processing Centers’ Pending Actions (022313), SSA’s performance measure is to reduce the number of pending actions at processing centers (PC), as the pending actions alone contribute to an increase in improper payments. However, SSA’s backlog and pending actions goal have increased since Fiscal Year (FY) 2018. While SSA met its goals in four of the last six fiscal years between FY 2018 through 2023, the Agency’s pending actions backlog increased by 44 percent from 3.2 to 4.6 million pending actions, during that same timeframe.
As the backlog grows, many processing center (PC) pending actions remain unresolved for long periods of time resulting in larger improper payments, including growing underpayments or increasing overpayments to beneficiaries.
SSA cited unexpected staff reductions, increased workloads, and less than expected overtime funding that would have been used to pay employees to process more PC pending actions, as explanation for the record-breaking backlog.
Although only falling short of meeting its annual goal in FYs 2019 and 2022, there was no overall reduction in PC pending actions for the last six fiscal years.
“Customer satisfaction has been an ongoing concern for SSA. This report continues to highlight the urgency for SSA to reach its pending actions performance goal and to ensure beneficiaries receive their proper payments as promptly as possible,” said Michelle Anderson, Assistant Inspector General for Audit serving as the Acting Inspector General for SSA.
The Office of the Inspector General made three recommendations to SSA to consider for its backlog reduction. SSA agreed with those recommendations.
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Can they recruit some of those irs agents? I mean they’re done with me so........ 😳😂👍
More like Lazy staff, and political leadership - that's the reason for these government agencies failing at every turn.
As part of a 10-month investigation Scripps News uncovered that every year, thousands of migrant children disappear from their homes shortly after arriving in the U.S. But there is no clear local, state or federal government agency taking responsibility for searching for many of these missing ...Apr 2, 2024
This is so bogus-——the kids arent missing, they are loaned out, passed around to other migrants. to be used in lucrative scams to get tax dollars from S/S and hefty disability checks.
Vindictive Biden overturned Trump’s order to get the DNA of these so-called needy families, to make sure the kids are really theirs.
A common practice by these greedy illegals is getting a crooked doctor to say a kid’s autistic b/c they get hefty SS tax paid benefits every month for the kid.
The maximum possible disability benefit for autism in 2024 is $943 per month for SSI and about $3,822 per month for SSDI. These maximums apply regardless of what condition you have or whether you apply with one condition or multiple. The actual amount received depends on specific circumstances. (Dec 7, 2023)
Disability Living Allowance (DLA) is a key benefit for children under 16 living with disability, including autism. It is assessed according to care needs, and a diagnosis is not required to make a claim. DLA helps cover the extra costs of raising a child with a disability. (Jan 30, 2024)
And it’s a sure bet they invent their “family circumstances.”
Plus senior illegals are draining the system, collecting without working a day here, not having put a dime into the system.
They have also been incorrectly deducting Medicare payments from some of us. Took me all most a year to get my money back
How sweet…you think they’re “done with” you. If you have money in your pockets, they are never done with you.
Just another drop in the bucket for our embedded unconstitutional criminal corrupt ruling class.
They’re done with me if that’s the metric. At least until 4/16/2025. 😳😊👍
Social Security, like The Veterans Benefits Administration, are trained to say “no” and force applicants to go through a tedious and time consuming process to gain benefits.
I don’t believe that Social Security mistakenly gave out money.
It was intentional and probably criminal.
I assume the federal workers of the 1930s to 1960s had a significantly higher average IQ than 21st century federal workers.
1 billion is what part of 37 trillion?
A drop in a bucket the Atlantic.
“improper payments” actually means “theft by government employees.”
SS should crack down on fraud, but Dems are claiming that Trump’s ideas for cutting off fraudulent SS payments are the same as “ending Social Security.” Some seniors believe them. I told them that is a lie but they don’t believe me. Cutting down on fraud is good for everybody but the fraudsters but they are brainwashed.
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