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Social Security IG – Title II Deceased Beneficiaries Who Do Not Have Death Information on the Numident

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Title II Deceased Beneficiaries Who Do Not Have Death Information on the Numident (A-09-11-21171)

  • “To identify and prevent erroneous payments to deceased beneficiaries, SSA’s Death Alert, Control and Update System (DACUS) matches reports of death received from Federal, State, and local agencies against SSA’s Master Beneficiary (MBR) and Supplemental Security Records (SSR). DACUS also processes death reports from
    internal sources. Finally, SSA records the death information processed by DACUS on the Numident, a master file that contains personally identifiable information (PII)5 for each individual issued a Social Security number (SSN). SSA uses death information from the Numident to create a national record of death information called the Death Master File (DMF). SSA also uses death information from the Numident during its Annual Wage Reporting process to determine whether wage or self-employment reports are erroneous. Finally, E-Verify, an Internet-based system, uses death information from the Numident to allow employers to determine newly hired employees’ eligibility to work in the United States. For our audit, we identified approximately 1.2 million deceased beneficiaries who had a
    date of death on the MBR but did not have death information on the Numident.”
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