Follow-Up On The Social Security Administration’s Prisoner Incentive Payment Program

In August 2009, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Social Security Administration issued a follow-up audit to a 2003 audit of the SSA prisoner incentive payment program. The Social Security Act allows the Social Security Administration (SSA) to make incentive payments to state and local correctional institutions that provide inmate data to SSA. The incentive payment provisions in the Act were established to encourage the reporting of inmate data that would allow SSA to suspend Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits to prisoners in a timely manner. To perform the follow . . .