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July 27, 2011 at 08:00 PM
Administrators of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program are getting more benefits overpayments back these days but have far more overpayments to recover, according to officials at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The GAO looked at the SSDI overpayment recovery efforts because of concerns that the Social Security Administration (SSA) may be paying benefits out to beneficiaries who have returned to work and are no longer eligible for benefits.
The SSA paid $123 billion in benefits to about 10 million workers and dependents in federal fiscal year 2010.
The level of known, cumulative SSDI overpayment debt increased to $5.4 billion in 2010, from $2.5 billion in fiscal year 2001.
SSDI debt collections increased to $839 million, from $340 million, over that same period, Daniel Bertoni, a GAO director, writes in a letter summarizing the GAO’s findings.
