The Social Security Administration (SSA) announces a new matching program with the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in line with the Privacy Act provisions. This program aims to identify Medicare enrollees aged 90 and above with inactive records for at least three years to verify their ongoing eligibility for Social Security benefits. The program will also help detect and analyze potential fraud. SSA will use this information to assess and ensure the rightful distribution of benefits and refer any suspected fraud cases to the Office of the Inspector General for investigation.
Simple Explanation
The Social Security Administration and Medicare & Medicaid Services are working together to check on very old people who haven't used their Medicare benefits for a long time to make sure they're still supposed to get them, and to catch any bad guys who might be trying to cheat the system.