Supplemental Security Income Fraud Protection

The Supplemental Security Income Fraud Protection program provides a vital safety net for our State's most needy, and elderly individuals. Thanks to Supplemental Security Income Fraud Protection, nearly 7 million individuals receive monthly SSI benefits, totaling more than $33 billion last year. Despite such, there has been too much fraud and abuse in SSI, necessitating Supplemental Security Income Fraud Protection.

While the vast majority of applicants are not out to defraud the Supplemental Security Income Fraud Protection program, the designation of the SSI program as “High Risk” by the General Accounting Office (GAO) is well deserved. For several reasons the Supplemental Security Income Fraud Protection program is more labor intensive and difficult to administer than any other disability program.

In 1994, GAO reported that after years of rapid growth, an estimated 250,000 Americans were getting disability checks due to drug addiction or alcoholism. The government is literally paying people to drink themselves to death.  Hence, in 1996, SSA ended the drug addicts and alcoholics part of the program and used Supplemental Security Income Fraud Protection.

The Supplemental Security Income Fraud Protection program paid about $35 million recipients in 2002. This problem has caused concern among both program administrators and policy makers. As such, GAO was tasked to determine the extent to which SSI benefits are improperly paid to individuals who are not present in the United States and to identify any weaknesses in SSA’s processes and policies that impede the agency’s ability to detect and deter residency violations.

The SSA Commissioner is given the power to impose civil monetary penalty and an assessment on persons who knowingly provide false information or knowingly withhold information to obtain Social Security benefits. The civil monetary penalty may be up to $5,000.00 for each violation and the assessment may be up to twice the amount of benefits wrongfully paid to the individual.


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