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The Social Security Administration is doing a better job of cutting off payments to dead beneficiaries, but the problem isn’t solved.

According to a May 24 report from the Office of the Inspector General of the Social Security Administration, 678 beneficiaries who were verified as deceased as of April 2017 received approximately $20 million in improper payments for 9 to 206 months after their dates of death were recorded on the Numident. (Numident is an acronym for “Numerical Identification System,” the Social Security Administration’s computer database file on everyone who has applied for a Social Security number.)

The audit concluded that the Social Security Administration will issue another $6 million in improper payments over the next 12 months if the problem is not corrected.

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