Inaccurate Fund Transfers Between Social Security Administration and Railroad Retirement Board

Gao ID: HRD-83-2 April 4, 1983

GAO reviewed the financial interchange whereby the Social Security Administration (SSA) has paid more than $17 billion to the Railroad Retirement Board (RRB) since 1958.

In reviewing 1979 financial interchange data, the current data available when the GAO review began, GAO found errors and inaccuracies in benefit calculations, projections, and administrative expense estimates resulting from SSA overpayments and underpayments. GAO estimates that, for the 1979 interchange alone, SSA transferred to RRB about $40 million more than it should have. Since many of the same procedures GAO questioned are still in effect, interchanges subsequent to 1979 will continue to contain errors and inaccuracies unless improvements are made.

Recommendations

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