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Committee makes permanent SSA‑to‑Treasury Do Not Pay death‑data sharing; heated oversight debate over alleged data exposure
Summary
The committee voted to make permanent SSA sharing of state death records with Treasury's Do Not Pay system (HR 27 16). Debate included technical safeguards but also a sustained cross‑aisle fight over allegations that a contractor and a private team copied SSA records to an insecure cloud and whether the committee should pursue oversight hearings.
The Ways and Means Committee voted to report HR 27 16, a bill to permanently permit the Social Security Administration to share state death records with the Treasury Department's Do Not Pay working system in order to prevent improper payments to deceased individuals.
Committee staff said the pilot program begun in December 2023 produced measurable returns — the Bureau of Fiscal Service reported roughly $109 million in identified improper payments prevented in the first year — and described data integrity provisions the substitute adds, including a clear‑and‑convincing evidence…
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