Are there automated systems enhancements which SSA should implement to improve SSN verification and help eliminate identity theft?
In our September 2001 audit report entitled Replacement Social Security Number Cards: Opportunities to Reduce the Risk of Improper Attainment and Misuse (A-08-00-10061), we recommended that SSA develop regulations and incorporate appropriate system controls to limit the number of replacement SSN cards an individual can receive during a 12-month period to 3 and over a lifetime to 10. SSA agreed to look carefully at the issuance of replacement cards to ensure that it took every advantage of systematic controls, such as limits, that might allow it to more effectively identify risk factors and avoid the issuance of multiple replacement cards in questionable situations. In our September 2001 report entitled Audit of Enumeration at Birth Program (A-08-00-10047), we pointed out instances of multiple SSNs being assigned to newborns and recommended that SSA enhance its duplicate record detection and prior SSN detection routines to provide greater protection against the assignment of multiple SS
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