According to a separate audit in 2023, the SSA estimated the cost of following OIG recommendations required up to $9.7 million in additional work hours. By 2023, the SSA again declined OIG ...

The OIG, which works to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the SSA’s programs, looked at both wrong payments and so-called pending actions that were left unresolved at processing centers ...

Social Security works with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to protect you from scams that use Social Security as bait. Section 1140 of the Social Security Act allows OIG to impose ...