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'After installing anti-fraud checks for benefit claims made over the
phone early last month, the Social Security Administration is
considering walking back the policy after finding only two cases that
had a high probability of being fraudulent.
The anti-fraud tool set up last month after weeks of changes to the
agency’s telephone policies has slowed retirement claim processing by
25% and led to a "degradation of public service,” according to an
internal May document obtained by Nextgov/FCW that examined potentially
cutting the anti-fraud tool for phone claims.
Under the new policy, the agency found that only two benefit claims out
of over 110,000 had a high probability of being fraudulent — and they aren’t guaranteed to be so. Less than 1% of claims were flagged as even potentially fraudulent at all.
“No significant fraud has been detected from the flagged cases,” the internal document said. '
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I wonder how much they wasted?
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