Doing Less With Less — Part One
SOURCE: Social Security News – Read entire story here.
New Anti-Fraud Effort
From the Social Security Update: Social Security’s Office of Anti-Fraud Programs (OAFP) is the latest member of Social Security’s team supporting our continued mission to fight and prevent fraud. Established in November 2014, OAFP’s mission is to efficiently and effectively detect, deter, and mitigate fraud, waste, and abuse of our program of Social Security’s team supporting our continued
What’s The Point?
House Social Security Subcommittee Democrats are pushing a plan to combine the Disability Insurance Trust Fund with the Retirement and Survivors Trust Fund as a way of dealing with the looming shortfall in the Disability Trust Fund. Why? How is this better in any way than the Administration’s plan to divert some FICA revenues to the Disability Trust Fund? It would have been nice if
MEGAHIT Working Well — But How Much Does It Matter?
From a report by Social Security’s Office of Inspector General (OIG): Despite challenges, SSA [Social Security Administration] continued expanding health IT [Information Technology] and partnered with 38 health care organizations, exchanged electronic records in 30 States and the District of Columbia, and identified ways of enhancing health IT case processing and data analytics.
How Often Does This Happen?
Guy gets a new Social Security number because some other guy had been using the same number and messed up his credit.